Seems users get used to that shit and they don't think its too bad. I'm also shocked that people can get used to it, but it was the same in the 80s with cable TV having tons of ads. People actually thought it was fine to wait during 7 minute ad breaks several times through a TV show or movie. Because they increased the ads slowly, just like YouTube does.
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I got a VPN and got YouTube premium for like $2.50 on an Ukraine server.
I would just try ublock but I watch in my tv a lot too
No idea. I’ve almost completely stopped using the site. I won’t use it on my ps5 for the exact reason you mentioned.
Haven't had more than 2 ads per ad break yet but have seen the frequency go up on some videos. Some videos have only a beginning ad while some have 2 or 3+ ad breaks. The extremely popular youtubers usually get the 3+ ads from my experience.
The ad duration also went up to 20-30 seconds with 10 seconds sprinkled in. It doesn't matter if I back out of videos anymore, it seems that the beginning ads are fixed to whatever duration they are. All of this happened when they rolled out the buggy circle timer.
I have no doubt that this will get even worse next year. It's just on the tv I use the youtube app, so if push comes to shove I will go back to fully using newpipe.