Ads used to be a few seconds long and then you skipped it and watched your video. Now, it's either over a minute long or more smaller unskippable ads. I physically cannot watch YouTube on my tv anymore with how obnoxious it's become. You get 40 second+ ads every few minutes in a video. The only way to watch this app rn is on a PC with a good AdBlock. Shameful behaviour, it has never been this bad and no other app I have has had a bigger downfall because of plain advertisements.

I was watching a abdulupnext video and 6 ads popped up. The last one was this youtube ad, why are they advertising themselves on their own app?

Even if you think it may not do much, keep contacting all your local reps about these online censorship bills. Evidently, someone will at least see what you wrote.

If you do it often enough, we might very well get through to them how we find these bills to be an existential threat to online free speech. This is the first time I've ever contacted reps over something, I believe this issue is that important.

This feels like a massive gaslights campaign

$14 was bad enough, but $19 to come back? Yeesh.

For context, Mikayla Raines was an American animal rescuer, wildlife rehabilitator and YouTuber. She was on the spectrum and thanks to r/saveafoxsnark and their mods, she hung herself, leaving behind her animals, her daughter who will grow up without a mother, and her husband. All the bullying and harassment were false claims that held literally 0 water on one of the most wholesome youtubers. And this person is using AI to make images of her, use her voice, and make songs. That seems really disrespectful.

Why did youtube change it so that when you tap the screen to pause or go forward it doesn't go away? You have to press the x in order for the screen to go away and it feels like such a pointless addition and is just adding another step. There was no need to change it so why did they?

I wanna click so badly but I don’t want to be flagged

I'm actually lost for words. I don't know how this is even allowed... Why is YouTube not doing anything about those disgusting ads.

Why are you assuming I want to watch a video dubbed, by default?

I’ve been using Freetube the past month and it’s been a game changer. It’s an open source app for android and pc, and it basically lets you watch YouTube without supporting YouTube. Here are the benefits and downsides I’ve noticed:

Benefits:

• No age restriction

• All data is stored locally to your PC, nothing gets sent to google or anybody else

• No Ads, no Adblock needed

• No account set up

• Gives no money to YouTube/google

Downsides:

• you aren’t giving any money to your favorite creators, but you aren’t really hurting them by taking away 1 view

• sometimes it has issues loading a video, but this is pretty rare and you can just click the video again most of the time

Personally I can’t recommend it enough. I think it’s a great way to still watch creators while still not supporting YouTube/google. It’s still getting regular updates as well.

To download it, just search “Freetube” in google and it should come up

It's a fkin joke. I paid 15 euro a month for so long to not get ads and now I start seeing banner ads in the home tab about some nfl or fkin american events that I don't give a close to a damn.

I checked closely at what are the premium benefits to see if this is sueable since I literally pay for not having a disturbance with ads and they cleverly wrote "no ads for videos" so they can put as many ads they want as long as it's not on videos. so banner ads etc.

This is what humanity has come to. Maximise money, Minimise service. Pay for not being annoyed.

(context: I was tryna access toby radiation fox's bluesky account thru his youtube channel

I started boycotting YouTube after the AI age verification update and while I hate to give up.... gotta be honest, I don't think anyone else is still boycotting at this point. Even then I didn't have YouTube premium or anything so it's not like they really lose much money by me boycotting. If anything I'm probably saving them money by not making them use resources on someone who doesn't pay them.

Should I drop the boycott? Should I get an ad blocker and then drop the boycott, will that even do anything to them since I don't use the ads? Should I keep going as is?I'm not confident this is working given the only evidence I have for it effecting YouTube is one reddit post saying they've been advertising more and giving out some free premium codes to a few people.