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The ads on YouTube are driving me insane!

There are a couple channels that I find very valuable, and Wipr/Vinegar takes care of all ads on my laptop, that works for me.
The service that's about to lose me as a customer data point is facebook. Only about 1 in 5 posts are from friends/family, the rest are scenes from violent films, history tidbits, and ads for aquarium pumps. The most maddening is when they shove a tom brady cheater post down my throat, I choose "Hide All from tb goat or whatever", and the algorithm suddenly decides, "Oh, he didn't like that tb post, here's three more!"; it becomes a maddening Medusa. I'm about ready to drop it all. Sad, because fb had allowed me to reconnect to my full-time Air Force coworkers/friends, and part-time musician friends, all over the country/world; hate to give that up, but...
 
Five things currently get my goat with YouTube. First, as with this thread, the excessive adverts (and silly Premium price here in the UK).

Second, the fact that as a content creator on YouTube I get £0 revenue from adverts shown on my videos, despite having 1k+ subs, as I'm not up to the "watch hours" total (not even halfway there). I have nearly 800,000 total video views and absolutely zero revenue to show for it.

Third, the freaking algorithm. I'm actually scared to click "like" on a video because YouTube will forever stuff my recommendations with similar content. I saw an old clip from a Monty Python film which was funny. Made the mistake of clicking like. Every other video in my home page list now is a Monty Python sketch. I have spent 2 months clicking "not interested" and "do not recommend channel".

Forth, YouTubers who nag you to "like, comment and subscribe, and hit the notification button" immediately before showing any actual useful content, or who keep banging on with some contentious questions and asking what you think, in order to try and inflate reply count.

Fifth, really good and informative channels who get too popular then get on the free product gravy train and start reviewing or recommending total s**t. Happens a lot on tech and camera channels I watch. You get a load of good reviews of products the creator paid for with their own money, honest reviews. Then they get free stuff. You know it when you start seeing random Chinese cr*p suddenly being reviewed.

I'm sure I think of some others ;)
 
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Here's a new one that got me. Found a video that was a summary of the one best play from every single Super Bowl. I had no interest in watching the entire thing, just finding the handful of plays I cared about. So I started the video. 30 seconds of unskippable ads. Fine, video starts. I start to seek through, but there are no chapter markings and the preview thumbnails weren't working on my AppleTV (see how I snuck that in to bring us to the forum topic), so I'm forced to try to guess where the part that I care about is. I jump to about 5 minutes into the video, and I have a 5 second ad and a two MINUTE skippable ad. Fine, suffer through those just to find that I guessed wrong. Seek further ahead in the video to 15 minutes, I was then forced to watch ANOTHER 30 seconds of unskippable ads. Suffer again. I guessed wrong again. Seek more, and I'm then forced to watch MORE ads. I then gave up and quit the YouTube app.

So for those keeping score, I was presented with 3:05 of ads of which I was forced to watch 1:10. I watched less than 5 SECONDS of actual content! Yep, Google made bank off me that morning. *sigh*
 
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Here's a new one that got me. ....

So for those keeping score, I was presented with 3:05 of ads of which I was forced to watch 1:10. I watched less than 5 SECONDS of actual content! Yep, Google made bank off me that morning. *sigh*
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I hate when that happens. When faced with that situation I use clip grab to download the video and scroll through on the computer (ad free). If the video is something I rather watch on the big TV, I either air play it or add it to my media library for AppleTV to play directly.
 
I am subscribed to YouTube premium, and it's a shame that I am not able to share that with my work google account. I am reminded of how annoying ads are whenever I try to stream something to my students from YouTube during lessons. Some aren't so bad (eg: grammarly), some are just irritating (eg: cosmetics, lingerie ads). :rolleyes:
 
I hate the YouTube ads too, but here’s the thing: I watch them (not actively, but they play in front of my face).

I despise advertising and have done all I can to avoid it everywhere. No services with ads, no apps with ads. Pretty much the only place I see ads anymore is YouTube.

I think that says a lot about the value YouTube has created. Usually I scoff at the build a “user base then monetize” strategy because it’s usually so easy for another site to come in while the first is just starting to piss off their users by monetizing and steal them away. YouTube is making me crazy with ads but I’m still going there— that says something.

And yet I won’t pay for premium because I still think of it as a video sharing site more than a streaming service….
 
especially the non skippable ads are annoying as ****
i'm usually reading some comments or pick up my iPad if i'm watching YT on Apple TV when they show up.

i've also made up a rule that i won't be buying anything from the unskippable stuff.
thing is: pretty much anything of it is either utter crap or stuff that i'm not interested in anyway
 
Not saying that there's an excellent extension called SponsorBlock for YouTube - but there is, and it's great. Although I do now pay for the minimal YouTube Premium I still use that extension - I'm over watching in-video advertisements for men's underwear or a madras.
 
OP hasn't replied. Maybe it's youtube employee gathering data, lol. But yeah I can't stand watching youtube on mobile because I cannot block them like I can on desktop. At least with ads worked into the video you can skip it by dragging forward. I have yet to see any ad that made me pause and pay attention to it. Quite frankly the only ads that really work are probably food ads. When you're hangry. Depends on the video too. Controversial videos will have far less ads. Or opinion based youtubers on current events. Luckily most of the content I sub to are mostly not ad heavy except a few.
 
MacDaddyPanda said:
OP hasn't replied. Maybe it's youtube employee gathering data, lol. But yeah I can't stand watching youtube on mobile because I cannot block them like I can on desktop. At least with ads worked into the video you can skip it by dragging forward. I have yet to see any ad that made me pause and pay attention to it. Quite frankly the only ads that really work are probably food ads. When you're hangry. Depends on the video too. Controversial videos will have far less ads. Or opinion based youtubers on current events. Luckily most of the content I sub to are mostly not ad heavy except a few.
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Excuse me?
JW5566 said:
Five things currently get my goat with YouTube. First, as with this thread, the excessive adverts (and silly Premium price here in the UK).

Second, the fact that as a content creator on YouTube I get £0 revenue from adverts shown on my videos, despite having 1k+ subs, as I'm not up to the "watch hours" total (not even halfway there). I have nearly 800,000 total video views and absolutely zero revenue to show for it.

Third, the freaking algorithm. I'm actually scared to click "like" on a video because YouTube will forever stuff my recommendations with similar content. I saw an old clip from a Monty Python film which was funny. Made the mistake of clicking like. Every other video in my home page list now is a Monty Python sketch. I have spent 2 months clicking "not interested" and "do not recommend channel".

Forth, YouTubers who nag you to "like, comment and subscribe, and hit the notification button" immediately before showing any actual useful content, or who keep banging on with some contentious questions and asking what you think, in order to try and inflate reply count.

Fifth, really good and informative channels who get too popular then get on the free product gravy train and start reviewing or recommending total s**t. Happens a lot on tech and camera channels I watch. You get a load of good reviews of products the creator paid for with their own money, honest reviews. Then they get free stuff. You know it when you start seeing random Chinese cr*p suddenly being reviewed.

I'm sure I think of some others ;)
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I’m in the UK as well. The price of Youtube Premium is insane.I’ve successfully blocked ads on my iPhone and iPad but no luck with the Apple TV. If only it had a web browser…
 
I gladly pay to avoid ads on sites and platforms that have this. It is why I pay for a membership here. I absolutely cannot stand ads.
 
I found it unfair that after watching two boring ads to get into a video I want I watch, if I skip forward or backward, that company made me watch ads again. The founders of youtube should not have sold youtube to that company.
 
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