YouTube Ads Are Getting Insane and I Hate It.

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0:00 - Intro
01:05 - tHaNkS tO oUr SpOnSoR
1:43 - How does Ad work
3:50 - YouTube's Automated Tools Suck
5:40 - Various Potential Solutions and why they suck
10:43 - Conclusion

[GiantGrantGames]

YouTube's Automated system wanted to put 5 midroll ads in this 12 minute video by the way. Absolutely incredible.

[iBoujin]

The removal of the yellow tick indicating mid roll ads was the most infuriating change to me. Being jumped by ads with 0 warning is the absolute worst.

[joelhatterini]

I remember a couple years back I tried turning off adblock to support people I watch, immediately regretted it, and turned it right back on.

[bluelotus.society]

The worst part is getting punished with random mid-roll ads for skipping around the video - even if you're just rewinding it by 60 seconds because you got distracted and didn't pay that much attention.

[dakotalake]

The worst is when you listen to a wonderful meditation music, eyes closed, relaxed and BAM, a stupid loud ad

[bobbydirtamiyer]

You know what grinds my gears? The hour long ads. I'd like to be able to set my phone down and work without walking over to it and skipping an ad every 3 mins.

[TheHonoredMadman]

Youtube be playing full documentaries as ads if you don't skip. Its insane

[SeenGod]

how about the fact that Youtube will demonetize some channels for not being ad-friendly, and yet they’ll still show ads on there 😵‍💫

[JRS]

What's worse is that they just select the same five ads to show you over and over again, and it's rarely ever for something you actually want. You just get sick of hearing the same ads over and over again. Now you can't actually watch a video for more than 2 minutes without an ad interrupting it, and it's a nightmare during long videos. Even worse is the fact you can get ads longer than the video you want to watch, e.g. a 40 second ad for a 3 second video. I tried an ad blocker in the hopes that it would improve the situation, but then youtube got petty and told me I just flat out couldn't watch any videos whatsoever until is disabled the blocker.

[Lukepuke]

There was a time where double ads didn’t exist and you only couldn’t skip ads under ~7 seconds

[OrigionalCigarette]

I really hate that youtube gives no regulations to its ads, yet is extremely regulates what youtubers can do.

[nikoninen]

A single mid roll ad that's 10x louder than any actual YT video is infinitely worse than a sponsored 1minute segment that I can easily skip just going a minute ahead.

[RVH-iodr]

Paying for Youtube premium is like paying your neighbor to stop yelling at you every time you go outside.

[UsedBubblehead]

Something I find surprising is how few people seem to remember that you used to be able to listen to Youtube videos with your mobile device's screen off. I'm forever bitter about them removing this feature particularly and selling it back to the users as I used it all the time back in the day. I wish more people talked about this sort of stuff whenever Premium gets mentioned because its absolutely infuriating and scummy.

[O.LEO.N]

Not only are the advertisements themselves getting worse in quality, but the ads are also getting so much longer and unskippable. Not to mention the way they just implemented double ads out of nowhere.

[FullMoonOctober]

A while back I had my phone playing an hour long video of a legal expert going over a case, and it kept going to ads every 10ish minutes. My hands were messy so I couldn't hit the skip button, so I'd let them go. Until one ad just kept GOING and GOING for the longest time. I finally got fed up and washed my hands to go deal with it. The ad was 15 minutes into a 50-something minute ad. I was shocked. How are things like that even allowed?? You'd think there'd be a limit, but we know youtube will let anything happen in ads as long as they get their cut.

[RumpleVonStiltskin]

I think my breaking point was listening to a playlist while driving wondering ”Just how long IS this add?” pulling over and discovering I was 5 minutes in to an add that was 2 hours 41 minutes long. I could not believe what I was seeing there.

[Gentleman_Gibbs]

Disabled adblocker for a few days when the three video strike thing rolled in. I was shocked by how aggressive YT ads have got. Not to mention how low quality most of these ads are, some are outright scams. Having Youtube on in the background, I realised I was 5 minutes in on an unskippable ad, so I could revisit a 30 second segment on a tutorial video. Which I had to watch another ad for for skipping through the video. Mental!

[pazma]

One thing I hate recently is that there's a specific ad for an online casino that I've told YT to stop showing me and tagging it as inappropriate. I've done this over 100 times, and I'm still being shown that same ad constantly. If I were someone who has a gambling addiction or something, that could be a really bad advert to show me. YouTube doesn't care. Google is scum.

[ciara]

What gets me is lifesaving videos like how to perform cpr and sleep videos getting ads before and during.