TH-cam needs to be taken to court over the fact that they don’t actually check anything they advertise. They regularly have ads that are social security scams, nsfw virus shit, etc. why are they not responsible for those who get scammed?
Imagine how many people have set up adblock on their grandparents devices for this reason alone since thats the demographic most likely to fall for these kinds of scams. And youtube has no system in place to prevent these ads in the first place and instead rely soley on a report based system which means millions could have seen the ads before action has been taken. Its even worse on Facebook where atleast half of the ads i see on that site seem to be somekind of scam or bogus product.
That won’t work unfortunately. TH-cam is an internet titan. If you do that they will run you out of town with the best lawyers possible and possibly drain you financially. And they know it.
TH-cam will let thinly veiled NSFW ads onto their homepage for millions to see, but when somebody installs Adblocker or a similiar program THAT’S when a sin has been committed. TH-cam’s priorities are so severely skewed it’s insane. They let bad behavior proliferate because it makes them pennies but attack normal users trying to avoid that bad behavior.
I had an argument because someone tried to tell me that those ads are "personalized based on traffic". I always turn off that personalization no matter what and I don't keep my history for very long, how the fuck is this nsfw shit personalized???
@@AdventVFX and its sad cuz us gen Z grew up watching TH-cam without having to deal with these problems, when I have kids I’m gonna keep them away from TH-cam, it’s so misleading now
I agree with you. 5-10 min of ads to watch a video is making it unusable. The whole internet is becoming unusable with ads. So many websites make you disable your adblock to see the article.
Fook me I wish i got only 10 mins of adverts!!!!! Honestly and genuinely telling the truth that if I go on yt on my xbox I get ads on videos literally every single second! I couldnt turn off yt on my xbox a few weeks back as my controller turned off and wouldn't turn on and during a video that was 40 mins long in the first 10 mins of the video I genuinely had over 100 adverts, they were honestly every second, I even filmed a part of it on my phone as my mates didn't believe me how often I was being bombarded, 6 seconds of the ten minutes before I turned the xbox off was the longest it went without a ad... my ps is now doing the same and as of this week my pc is also doing it. I'm currently watching a documentary and I've been hit with ads every 3rd minute to the second, but what's worse is if I pause the video then press play I'll get ads even if ads only played one second before I paused video.... Gotten to the point where I'm starting to despise yt which was my favorite thing to watch as I cannot stand TV due to ads...
Those random websites that make you turn off adblockers I usually just leave - what’s the point in turning off adblocker for a website that I don’t even know has the information I’m looking for?
That's going a bit far, because at least TV has somewhat normal commercials, it's not like they're advertising stuff like, "GO TO THIS TOTALLY NOT SCAM WEBSITE TO PLAY GTA V ONLINE FOR FREE!" They advertise normal products on Television. Heck, if TH-cam would just give me normal ads, I wouldn't even use an adblocker.
What's really scummy with how much ads have affected cable/satellite programming, they slightly speed up the playback of the show you're watching leaving more time for ads during commercial breaks. I remember used to commercial breaks during a 30 minute program having maybe 4 minutes but 8 at most. Past couple years after they started speeding up playback I've noticed it hits anywhere from 9 minutes to almost 11 minutes total during a 30 minute program. Cable is dying out, when my provider came by a week ago to give me the upgraded router and saw the cable box they told me that their company no longer have cable boxes anymore and if it were to go out there's no replacement and I would have to switch to their streaming service.
I love it when TH-cam advertises actual NSFW scam shit and has the audacity to actively antagonize anyone who is using an ad blocker to avoid getting viruses. It's especially awful given how fucking frequent ads show up today. The Adpocalypse looks like paradise in comparison to today.
I started using an adblocker because of the CONSTANT gambling ads that I started getting once I turned 18. I have never been interesting in gambling and it was disturbing to see one ad calling out to gamblers who wanted to "find that flutter feeling". It's just insane to me that ads can so blatantly target addicts like that, its like they don't care for anyone's well-being as long as they get money out of them
I know Google has options to limit gambling and alcohol ads, but let me tell you the one for alcohol does not work. I wish they'd let me limit car ads; I don't even have a license, gdi
Well, turning 18 has few perks, and minuses... You loose the attention of PDFs but you gain the attention of Phub-like corpos: "Mmhm fresh blood. Wanna get boned on a hub-like site or waste your life away gambling? Depending on your gender 🙃"
Well if people just watched the ads to start off with you would have the old small ads but because less people see it they need to get more bang out of those who see it.
Using YT in Russia was the best experience I’ve had with YT(until the government decided to artificially slow it down so people are forced to use their video platforms)
@@kirabad-artist6532we got GoodbyeDPI so it's still the best experience, no ads since February 2022, I forgot how disturbing it is to actually watch an advertisement, weird flex but yeah lmao
If ublock gets blocked, the devs get an update out hours to a day after. When Google rolled out server side ads as a test, ublock devs went "okay, bet" and in like a week, those ads were blocked.
like how Kira wrote secret messages in prisoners' suicide notes as a test, and L went "okay, bet" and gave him a fake 4th message when they talked about the Kira case
The entire reason I moved to watching TH-cam in the first place was to avoid the minutes of ads you get on tv so why make TH-cam the same? I actively try to avoid any products that are unskippable ads these days.
Fun fact: even the literal FBI recommends people to use ad blockers because of how often ads are used to commit identity theft and other digital crimes. TH-cam and Twitch would rather put their users at risk than lose a tiny bit of money from adblockers.
I think the reason they're really cracking down on it now is because of profits, specifically their investors. I heard from somewhere that they need to keep growing to keep their investors happy, but because TH-cam is practically EVERYWHERE already, they have to find others ways to continue profiting. Take this with a massive clump of salt because I dont even remember where I heard this.
"It is not possible to use the internet without an adblock"- as someone who was adblock illiterate until just recently.... my experience with finally discovering adblock can be likened to when ancient humans discovered fire. There's no going back. I'll never go back to those dark days of being bombarded with ads ever again.
I grew up in the days of old where your bandwith was slow AF and limited and so many ads started playing audio/video as well as having drop downs which hog the screen and cover the GTA3 cheat codes you are looking for with bright flashy shit to trigger siezures while installing dozens of viruses on your machine. The moment I learned adblock existed I grabbed it without mercy.
I once tried turning ad blocker off to be nice to TH-cam and give them revenue. At one point I clicked on an ad that turned out to be a virus. Because of this I will never click an ad again even if it interests me. If they want people to stop using ad blocker they need to improve the ads and make them more trustworthy. Ad blocker or not I literally never trust ads anymore.
The three most annoying things are: - The majority of ads don't interest me at all! - Many yt ads sound like a scam - The audio volume increasing suddenly, with the potential too suffer hearing damage when wearing headphones...
That's the worst, actually. Decades ago federal law banned TV commercials from being above the volume of the TV by a fixed decibel rate. It passed with full bipartisan support. They need to do the same for internet advertising
I thought I was the only one who noticed this! I could have my volume all the way up on a video and it still sound quiet, but as soon as an ad plays the volume doubles.
What's crazy to me is that in addition to their attack on ad blockers they have at the same time made ads more annoying. They're now longer, the skip button often now has a longer delay before being available, you might have an ad with a 30 second countdown and think "great, I can watch the video in 30 seconds" but then when that ad finishes we get a second 30 second ad. It's also often the same ads over and over again and advertisers that design ads for online platforms tend to subscribe to the "make it annoying and people will remember it" method
absolutely!! I occasionally go to yt on my switch to listen to music, and have a minute of unskippable ads. makes me wanna throw my switch out the window
I just clicked on an 8 minute video, got 2 ads to start, clicked to the middle, instantly another ad. I instantly paused, copied the URL, and went over to a browser which actually works.
@@phoebe_nerd And that is what pisses me off the most. Im not eligable for revenue but you still going to put ads on my vids without sending me a penny, okay youtube...
I want some big creator to make a 20 minute compilation of all the worst ads that get put on this platform (as well as all the links from each ad in the description) and see how long it takes for the video to get taken down. That appeal process would be the best shit to watch.
Good to know TH-cam won’t do a thing about one creator posting another’s address online for millions of Instagram followers but the moment people start blocking ads it’s a code red and they go into immediate damage repair.
You know what I hate more than being forced to watch ads? Scam ads and malicious ads that are shoved down my throat by an ad company that cannot regulate itself properly.
Fr, youtubers get demonitized if they say ,,fuck" but you can get redirected directly to Porn Sites *and / or* have viruses and scams advertized by an AI Voice and that's fine and dandy according to the YT CEO
I clicked a google ad once that blackscreened and froze my computer, couldn't use task manager or any windows commands. had to force shutdown, restart. I will never not use adblock. It would be like unprotected sex with a hooker if I didn't. I will script and ad block till I die. OR I will just not use the internet.
Ghostery is a good effective adblock. Literally my singular reaction to any and every ad is "SILENCE, BRAND" and skipping as quickly as I'm allowed, I am not even looking at what they're advertising, I'm just seeing red. I won't even remember what they're trying to sell me.
Trying to use the Fandom site is by far one of the worst experiences with ads you can get. You try looking up a small tidbit of info about something and you get an automatic video ad playing while following the page as you scroll, several other banner ads to the side, another pop up that will slide into view, and just overall jittery usage because of them. And god forbid you try using the site on mobile, can feel almost unusable sometimes.
protop for fandom wikis- change fandom in the url to 'breezewiki' We shouldn't need to do this but it's helped a lot for me when checking game info on my phone
fr, it's so fcking annoying to open a comment thread with the first 2 comments being fcking bots. It's the same thing as charlie mentioned with ads, I just click off the comment thread
The funniest thing is, that even demonetized videos have tons of ads. So the youtuber gets no money, but the viewers still have to sit through the same ads as any monetized video.
I put up with TH-cam ads until about 5 months ago. What got me on adblocking TH-cam? Them spiking the amount of ads. Now they dont make any ad money off me. Genius TH-cam you got greedy and tried to get more and instead ended up getting nothing
Same here. Constantly shoving ads in my face every 5 minutes, ruins my viewing experience. It's like I'm watching a video, only to have an ad pop up in my face when I least expect it. And my reaction is: "Get the F*** out of my face and let me watch the damn video!"
I can't wait to be in the middle of following a DIY or cooking recipe where I need to occassionally pause. I can see it now. Detailed instruction > pause > ad > forget what the instruction was due to ad > rewind > rewatch > pause > pause ad > forget again > repeat until exhaustion or kitchen fire has occured.
Dude, you are so on the ball with this. I had the misfortune of having to access TH-cam via TV for a couple of months, so no ad blocker. It sucked big time and more often than not, I quit watching the video I clicked on because I wasn't prepared to sit through multiple 60 seconds of ads to watch an 8 minute long vid. Hell, I don't even remember what any of those ads were for, which shows how ineffective they actually are. YT has become it's own worst enemy. Without ad block, I would probably walk away from the platform altogether.
Honestly though. I have a TV downstairs but I just can't watch youtube on it at all. It is genuinely the worst experience I've ever had. The ads are just insane, constant, and terrible.
@@mr420quickscops2 It was getting like that by the end of the couple of months. I guess the longer you watch YT on TV, the longer and more frequent the ads get.
hey tips for yall! when ads play on ur tv, click on the information (the i in the circle thing) and click on not show this ad again, and return to video! hope this helps!
@@alex_da_neko Unfortunately, I was only able to do that for around 15 advertisements. After that the info button completely vanished and I only had the option to directly open the ad. Which sucks because I did it to all the regular legit ads, and then got only Elon Musk crypto scam videos and was unable to report them
i'm a totally blind user and with a screen reader and ads, youtube is unusable without premium. half the time i couldnt find the skip ad button, and half the time the refreshing of the page to display the ad would confuse the screen reader cursor so i'd be lost
Another thing to consider is people who are on limited data plans. The ads use quite a chunk of that data. Especially some of the news websites that are loaded with ads. Adblockers are absolutely necessary.
Adding to this! Unlike normal yt vids, you can't adjust the quality playback of ads. So if it's like a 4K resolution ad. You gotta watch it in its full quality.
sometimes I'll be watching TH-cam on cellular data on a car ride or a road trip and we'll pass through a spot with garbage cell service, so I just turn the video quality down ! but the stupid ads still play at full resolution, I had an ad load for 4 minutes once. Why can't TH-cam detect the ad is taking forever to load and lower the quality or stop serving the ad?
I have Premium ONLY because I'm a recovering alcoholic and constantly being shown ads for alcohol was a living hell. YT sucks. I miss the days where when one site started to suck, a new and better one popped up. YT is greedy af and they don't care about its users.
Right now ads have their own streams, but once TH-cam will have ads into the same video stream as the main video, we won't really be able to block ads anymore.
I completely agree. And the other half of the problem is that half of these ads that are being shoved down your throat are literal scams or NSFW. God forbid you tap on one on accident your device will probably get instantly infected with 17 different pieces of malware.
I got ads for a mobile game that's falsely advertising using footage of a pornographic *VORE* game in its ad. I'm genuinely flabbergasted watching a pixelated girl get her clothing blasted off and then being eaten by something. What the fuck man, I'm leaving this site if I can't use adblock.
TV TH-cam is worse. I keep getting 50 second unskippable ads, and it's starting to look like actual Television where you get 15 minutes of advertisements nonstop between broadcasts.
I was watching War of worlds 2005 on my TV. I got around 8-10 minutes between ads. Oh and the THE BROADCAST WILL CONTINHE AFTER ONLY ONE AD. Tge ad being 40 seconds long
I don't mind 30 second ads but pretty often I get a full 30 minute to 2 hour long show as ads sometimes from PragerU or one of their affiliates. I'm not going to watch that much of another thing in the middle of a video I'm awake for. I often play a music playlist when I go to sleep and they could slip in a two hour video then while I'm unconscious but not when I'm awake.
OMG yes. I was recently pet sitting at a friend's house, didn't have my PC with me so watched some YT on her TV. I was appalled at how bad it was compared to on my PC
They do something disgusting now where they make you watch 1-2 mins of ads "instead of more adbreaks" in a longer video, except they run the same number of breaks as before, so it has just skyrocketed.
If ads were skippable after like 2 seconds instead of 5 seconds (or just immediately, like they were at one point), I'd be much less likely to crash my bike on the way to work. I often listen to videos while biking, to work or otherwise. I'll skip the ad at the beginning and then put my phone in my pocket, but then there's an adbreak in the middle of the video, so I have to take my phone out and skip it. I was running late for work once, and nearly bailed just waiting for the ability to skip it.I'm convinced it's like 6 or 7 seconds too, cause those "5 seconds" feel longer to me. Sometimes I'll let the ad play, like if I'm in the bike lane or somewhere with cars rushing by, but then some ads are waaaaay longer than 30 seconds. I was cooking once in my kitchen when an ad started to play. I was unable to skip it right away otherwise my food would have burned, so I let it play. It went on and on and on, and finally when I was able to skip it, I was stunned. The ad was AN HOUR LONG!! What in the actual fuck?! I'm there watching a ten minute video, and an ad starts that's six times as long as the video? Who the fuck is going to watch that??
What makes it worse is that even the “do not see this ad anymore” button is that it doesnt even work. I see the same temu ads and native ads pop up even after hitting that button several times
The only way that I’ll even consider getting rid of ad blocker is if youtube: •Stops hosting scam and NSFW ads •Deplatform creators that promote scam and/or NSFW content (especially to kids) I dont want to give ad money to a company with little to no morals
I can't even say the word "Courage" 🦁 instead of "Shiny" to surf the web without my comment getting deleted. Check out "Courage" instead of "Shiny". A-B is built in.
At this point, it doesn't even look like ads are meant to be benefit the advertiser. It looks like ads are meant to annoy the consumer enough to make them shell out the money for premium subscriptions. Like they're all just a TH-cam Premium Ad.
the fact that ads on when watching on xbox can last over a minute with 5 unskipable ads and then once you skip the ad it immediately gives you ANOTHER AD even though you just skipped one is actually insane.
Same on app, even todays I had the situation where I skip ad and it constantly play another 2, konger than previous, sometimes that happen when I try to rewind 10 seconds and it hit ad marker, YT became truly disgusting when it comes to ads, not to mention how much NSFW, clickbait and shady stuff come up as "ads" and how easy it is to click on them...
I cam no longer watch YT on the xbox anymore due to how fanatical the ads became... I'm not even exaggerating when I say over course of 10 minutes on a 40 min video I genuinely and honestly had over a 100 adverts! I was getting bombarded every second as if my xbox had a virus, the longest period I didn't have a ad was 6 seconds... Couldn't even turn TH-cam of as my wired control turned off and wouldn't turn back on so I just sat through it whilst tidied my office... Honestly never seen such ridiculous number of ads on a video, it's now started happening on my pc, right now I'm trying to watch a video about storming of Normandy, the video is 51 mi uses and 52 seconds long and onnevery 3rd minute to the second I've had duel unskippable ads and if I pause it, the second I press play I get ads again even if I just sat through ads even 2 seconds before!
Content blockers work. The worst that ever happened was YT had a tactical victory for about two weeks in summer of 2023. What you have to worry about now, is YT will start a DDOS (by analogy not a true DDOS) on your local computer resources. Running an HDD for your page file, it's going to be at 100% while watching YT, if you have an SSD for your page file, it will be smoked within three months if you watch regularly. They also deliberately fill up your standby cache and refuse to release it. (yes YT defender trolls they are doing it, I have the source code so suck it.)
TH-cam staff spending weeks of resources on coding to get around or "discourage" adblocks only to see any progress they make get invalidated within minutes by a group of amateurs will forever bring me joy
If blocking ads violates the terms, why do they allow malicious ads? It's not enough to know everything and sell to third parties, now you have to accept receiving proposals from scammers.
Just goes to show how people are inherently selfish. TH-cam is owned by Google. Do you pay for Google searches? Do you pay to watch TH-cam videos? Do you pay to upload TH-cam videos? How about Google make an update so it costs you 50 cents for each minute of video you upload? Maybe you'll prefer that type of business model then.
@@azurelava7796 These are bad examples. Google has time and time again proven that they''re not the most trustworthy search engine. They sell your personal data and search history left and right. If companies want to appear on the first page of your google search they have to pay for the search ranking. This is especially important for startups. People make content and upload it to youtube and you suggest that they should even pay for that? TH-cam's business model revolves around people making content in their free time. If nobody made content there'd be no TH-cam and we wouldn't even have this conversation.
As a guy with sensitive hearing, sometimes ads (not literally) blow up my ear drums, I literally had to move to twitch while my ad blocker wasn't working just to not get my ears destroyed since I can't auto mute ads without muting the video itself, I wouldn't even mind ads taking my time itself but the sound, I can't take it
get uBlock Origin. Works on Firefox and Chrome, and blocks TH-cam ads completely, ignoring the anti-adblock popup and an ad-sized "delay" before the video starts playing.
I know nobody at TH-cam HQ will see my comment, but you bring up a good point about skippable vs. unskippable ads. If I am forced to watch an ad that I don't want to see, I will go out of my way to ensure that I never purchase that company's products or services ever again.
Here Here. I refuse to use the services or products of any company that basically grapes me with ads (as in I do not have a choice but must accept the ad)
Don't forget they allow ads from mobile games/apps that portray sexual innuendos, fake and copyrighted contents, online casinos, and scams. I've reported every single one of them, and TH-cam still keeps it.
I sometimes watch videos on my consoles whenever I’m not on my PC. Looking over to see a 50 second “long ad”. They’re unskipable. I genuinely feel like I’m watching cable again
Yes, thats the model they would like to get back to. With you having as little choice as possible. The censorship is still the most insidious part of this platform though.
Yess thisss I swear the ads are triple as long compared to a phone and also a thing noticed on console is that you can skip and ad to another ad if you didn’t like that one 😐
@@SecretMarsupial and Google rolling out Manifest V3 soon as well, meaning most adblockers lose a good chunk of their functionality on chromium based browsers, you can see what they're trying, thank god i'm on firefox with ublock origins.
The funniest thing is when instead of ads you get "surveys", and then you get asked by youtube:"how has your experience with ads been as of late?" HOW DO THEY EXPECT ANYONE TO SERIOUSLY ANSWER ANYTHING OTHER THAN "HORRIBLE"
It's worse when you try to skip the survey without answering. They usually throw a prompt up at me wanting me to answer the survey, and the only way to get past the survey is to select an answer. Literally happens every.single.time.
The most ridiculous part is: youtube has a special player for kids. Like some videos are flagged as content for kids and have some features blocked. And still these videos get ads for like casinos or fake game apps or adult products. Like… YOU KNOW ITS FOR KIDS…. WHAT ??? And the audacity that you want to watch like a 1 minute clip and could end up watching 30 seconds of ads is wild. Also the fucking lie of „ oh the ads finance our platform and pay the creators“ Yeah sure, its not by coincidence so you make a huge profit of the platform
Well for some reason, the issue when they had that big fine from the FTC was that they were gathering info on them to give targeted ads, not that they were advertising to kids in general, which means that they now just don't give personalized ads to those videos... So on one hand they don't promote things that children might buy, on the other they now give them general ads, which could be anything, even things not safe for kids knowing TH-cam's lax advertisement regulation. Funnily enough I think that's worse overall then just giving targeted ads, and realistically they shouldn't be allowed to advertise to children at all(well to the best of they're ability anyway)
I've found that whenever you're given the infamous "Adblockers violate TH-cam's terms of service" popup, you can get around it by being in full screen and clicking the space bar. For some reason, this still plays the video. The only catch with this is when you exit full screen mode, the video player closes the video and only plays the audio.
they're not even really that bad. i'll sumtimes sit with the tv on and usually its 2 30-60 sec ads, then 15-30 minutes of no ads, depending on what channel ur on and what ur watching
@@AngelDustIsSus i agree and the times you get like 6 30 second ads there is always a next button after the first ad that skips you to the last add with a skip button ontop of it
Ads have always been extremely intrusive. I've been using adblockers since 2007 and I absolutely refuse to browse the internet without them. If a website tries to force me to disable my adblockers, I won't use it.
any time i find an article somewhat related to what i was looking for and i go to the article and it says i have to turn off ad blocker, 99 times out of 100 the article doesnt end up helping me anyways and disabling ad blocker is just a waste of time
100% agree, if they cant take adblock, the site is fishy. The funny thing is i watch alot of ads on the internet, the ones I chose cause i really wanna buy that lol
It’s great to see that almost everybody on the internet agrees for once, just literally rebelling against TH-cam's ad campaigns. Here’s a contribution to one of my favorite creators.
your two options are: use multiple browsers (that actually works), older versions sometimes bypass all of this for months another option is, leave, thats usually the smarter option anyway, if they penalize me with ads, i penalize them with less views
The harder they push unskippable ads the more ppl push back 1 Skippable Ads you can cope with but when i started getting unskippable ads that's when i decided to research how to block ads on both browser and mobile TH-cam, now they're doing double unskippable ads
@@lemagicbaguette1917 Indeed they do. I use a mirror site of TH-cam, its the exact same as youtube just with no ads and sadly the creators gets 0 benefit from me watching, but that is what TH-cam has forced me to do. If i remove adblock i get 40 fake mrbeast ads and if you accidentally click one while scrolling you can get your info stolen. I started using mirror sites for everything, free netflix, youtube without ads etc, free UFC fights.
@@callyral Yeah its still pretty easy to avoid ads on YT, I'm talking more about annoying TV ads, but will absolutely apply it to YT ads if they ever become truly adblock proof as YT wants. You force me to watch an ad, and any chance that I might ever buy your product is _gone._
Yeah, it is negative association. It's bad for the platform, and the company that paid to run the ad. Well, as far as reputation goes. Fiscally it's good for the platform.
@@lukepenny8601 honestly i just exit youtube alot of the time now. if the content isnt extremely gripping then its not worth dealing with ads, so i'll just go play games or read a book. no ads there.
5 years ago youtube changed ads to show twice instead of only one ad. if they would’ve just stopped tinkering with the ads system there would be way less cases of adblock being used on their site.
@@ggregg2667 I WAS just too lazy to get an ad block because I thought, it's just an ad I can wait a bit, then double ads and weird/nsfw ads kept showing up so I decided to get ublock. I probably would have kept on not using an Adblock if there weren't those suggestive ads
@@ggregg2667yeah possibly, the the feeling to have to do that would be a lot less considering 1 skippable ad is literally 5 seconds vs the 15 second un-skippable ad PLUS the 5 second skippable ad.
They also made sure that you can skip not 2 but 1 advertisement with the button 'Skip Ad.' And if you are watching a TH-cam video that lasts for about an hour and a half, an advertisement suddenly appears without you being warned with the text 'Ad will appear in ... seconds'.
Saying using Adblock is against our terms of service is like Amazon saying we will refuse you delivery service unless you keep your doors unlocked. Even the FBI recommend you lock your doors and use an Adblock.
You're literally using something to bypass a system for them to make money and keeping servers up, do you know how expensive and hard to keep up this entire platform and servers are?
TH-cam is becoming like commercial cable TV. Was at a hotel the other day, and tried watching a movie; Every 5 minutes like 10 ads played... I got through about 20 minutes of the movie and gave up, just turned it off, and sat in silence 💀
Welcome to the digital distribution future. Our grandkids' minds will boggle at how we were able to stick in a blue ray and watch the entire movie without a single interruption.
@@goodlookinouthomie1757 I agree and still buy physical media for anything I intend to watch again, but even some BDs come with "mandatory" ads like unskippable studio cards and (usually skippable) trailers before it will show you the menu; I think each movie in my Avengers collection takes 60-90 seconds to get to their respective menus while mashing the Skip button. If your BD player is internet-enabled, it will even download new trailers before you can do anything. This for a movie/show you've *purchased to own*. Like I said, I'll still go physical so I have my own local copy, but even low-form ads (like trailers on a disc) are everywhere.
@@UziMusic Disney was the worst for this, tons of unskippable ads before the movie would play ON A DISK YOU PAID MONEY FOR! But at least they didn't pop in to interrupt the middle of the film...
I’m okay with watching an ad here and there, no problem. I’m getting fed 30-50 second unskippable ads every 3 mins and they expect me to not find a way to block them. Genuinely sickening. EDIT: ALSO creators have ads inside the video, that’s more ads I have to watch!
its crazy. idk i notice a huge increase in ads at the start of the summer. I do long road trip i listen to longer vids. I was fine with ads because even in 1-3 hour vids they would be spaced good. Now if i watch any vid longer than 25 minutes its like i get an ad every 3-5 minutes.
Yeah..I really don't get their reasoning... If they wouldn't make their ads so unbearably long and annoying, people wouldn't bother as much with completely avoiding them. Having less ads would also make every individual one more valuable.
Having 2 unskippable ads before a livestream is crazy, the audacity TH-cam have to hunt people who use adblockers when they don't do anything on literally anything else
tbh they can hunt me all they want I'll just stop using the platform if they try and take action against me. It's already a huge time waster as it is, it's probably exactly what I need lol.
I remember back when you didn't need an adblocker. As long as you weren't on somewhere sketchy, you any ads weren't intrusive. They were usually just something off to the side away from the main content. Sometimes you might even see stuff you'd want to click on and it would be something legit.
Banner ads! I never felt the need to block static banner ads as a kid, half the time they were selling something relevant to the website you were on. And then full video ads in the corner that would automatically load and play made every web page they were on suddenly take forever to load and threatened to prematurely data cap me...
I remember being a kid and clicking on banner ads for games that ended up being a good chunk of my childhood (club penguin, neopets, howrse, chicken smoothie, etc) that i wouldn't have found otherwise. I miss regular, relevant banner ads :(
Companies don't bother having useful or good ads anymore. They just spam people with dozens of shitty loud and annoying ads and pray it'll somehow turn into more money for them.
Curated banner ads are not just okay, they're actually great. I'm working with a company that uses them every now and then as targeted advertising on relevant websites. They actually drive tons of users our way. The engagement level is huge when done right. Instead, TH-cam is using the shotgun method. Who cares about a curated user experience? Who needs accountability for whatever garbage they're serving? They'll take money from anyone and slap an ad on anything, regardless of whether it's appropriate or not. They're happy to tank the user experience because they've all but monopolized their market sector and are operating at huge volume. It's really gross and sad; they have no pride.
Yall remember back in the day the only ad we would get was that little rectangle at the bottom that you just had to X out . Now we have unskippable ads and ads even when the video is paused
I'll do you one better. I remember back in the day when the only ad you'd get was a little rectangle on the side or top of the page you didn't even have to bother Xing out of, because it stayed unobtrusively in its place. Hell, sometimes they even made a site feel more lively. Funnily how the vast majority of people didn't feel the need to run adblockers in those days 🤔
the fact that my ublock counter goes up steadily while watching this video is a constant reminder how close i am to never using youtube again if this adblocker stops working.
Just quickly pulled this from Ublock Blocked since install8.849M This is insane, I admit been using it for probably a good few years, but even in the span of a few seconds on the same youtbue tab, I have gone up like by 5.
I've been using TH-cam for my primary source of entertainment since 2007. One of the most important and primary benefits this had was that a commercial wouldn't play every five minutes. There has never EVER been an AD that convinced me to buy something, why would I be interested in something that doesn't value my time? They want TH-cam to interrupt me for 10-120 seconds while i'm trying to watch something. That makes me angry... not interested.
Here here man. Right there with you. I've been blindly hoping things would go back to normal since Apocalypse, but that's not happening. I know it's hella wishful thinking, and not realistic. But man do I wish ads could be optional again. Or in the very least not in every single last pixel on the g**d**m internet...
No I agree. I get home from work and want to unwind and watch my fav creators without interruption but I get these stupid ads that make me hate the product or whatever the ad is portraying. Shoot I go back to streaming on tv when it annoys me too much.
Couldn't have said it better myself! Started watching youtube around the same time as yourself because I was sick and tired of tv with it's boring useless ads and boring useless shows/movies, so I haven't watched tv since then.
Not just that, but recently, the amount of ads that TH-cam shows me in less than 5 minutes, it's insane. One time, I skipped an ad, and after skipping it, TH-cam immediately showed me another 2 ads. Its just insane how desperate they're for money, its driving me insane this abuse of ads on this platform.
That's not how the ad system works. They give you all the ads at once unless the creator has put in another ad spot directly afterwards. I know a couple channels doing this, and it's horrendous.
@@ryanthompson3737 Well, unless all creators have decided to do that, then that explains everything. But this has been happening to me in every single video I watch, specifically when I watch TH-cam on mobile, on desktop this things don't happen.
@@AxionParticle I've been having to skip every individual ad on mobile, it won't skip both ads at the same time now. It's even worse when I try and watch anything on my PS4 or Switch because there, you're forced to sit through over a minute of 4 or 5 different ads before the skip button even starts to work
I love that TH-cam is spending resources, time and money on ad-blockers, while literally millions of people are circumventing and breaking the ad system patch after patch for sport. I don't think I've seen an ad on TH-cam in over two years.
@@postalatom256 the thing is, its barely any effort (unless you're talking about the people making these adblockers but even then youtube is putting way more effort into this and atp i think these coders got used to it) Premium, however, costs 12 dollars, which is also 55 ron for me. That is a lot just for better quality and no ads when i can just get all those for free
Whoever came up with the idea to play 10 seconds of unskippable ads every 5 minutes should get a transplant of neuralink that plays 10 seconds of unskippable ads every 5 minutes for the rest of their goddamn life
@@FelipeV3444 I don't understand.. I use ublock origin on browser (pc). Firefox with ublock origin on my android phone, (also have the ytube premium app cracked but rarely use it. And a script for twitch. I haven't seen ads in years :D still going strong.
The biggest issue I have with ads on any website is that the people who purchase the ad space don't get checked to see if their ads aren't malicious. The amount of computers I've had to remove malware and sometimes even viruses from is because older people or people who don't know any better go to websites and accidentally or intentionally click an ad and get screwed. If these companies are gonna serve ads they better bend over backwards just to make sure that users of the websites aren't getting their computers rekt.
This. Getting an adblocker took me and my family from dozens of malwares a week to maybe one every three years. If TH-cam doesn't want people using those, maybe they should make sure they don't force their customers to compromise the security of their computers.
TH-cam really acting like we're criminals for dodging 10 unskippable ads to watch a 2-minute video. What's next? A CAPTCHA asking us to identify traffic lights just to prove we're ‘worthy’ of skipping? Soon they'll start running ads about how they're fighting ad blockers, and I still won’t care!
_technically_, under the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, since it's so incredibly vague, breaking the terms of service (blocking ads on YT) could potentially be construed as illegal.
@@epic_labs Seems technically possible thanks to said vagueness of CFAA but one can hope that it would not be applied in such an extreme case. Still. I could see a megacorp suing adblockers over lost profits and such in civil courts. That seems most likely to me.
It's a neverending war; 1) youtube adds ads, ad-blockers are made 2) TH-cam does something to block ad-blockers, the ad-blockers get better 3) Repeat 2) until either youtube gives up or goes broke because ad-blockers will never go away
I’ll never forget the one time a bit back where I was trying to watch oversimplified, when an ad came up about some crappy anime comic, and my dad actually thought I was watching p*rn at the dinner table. TH-cam literally almost got me grounded over a crappy ad
You've just rediscovered what it used to be like playing browser games. You could just be playing a tower defense game, but you'd get three "hot singles" ads in the borders around it.
TH-cam is literally borderline unwatchable if you do not have an ad blocker an average 10 to 20 minute video will have 2 to 6 ads on it and they will all be unskippable literally dog shit
when they complete their quest to block all ads they will suffer for their efforts. I won't be around except to laugh at them as they go the way of the pay phone.
I haven’t experienced this personally but I’ve seen ads that are over an hour long, they’re getting fuckin ridiculous Thankfully I’m freeloading off of my family’s yt premium so I don’t have to deal with any of this but that’s not an option for everyone
brother. i will visit a website once, and get ads for them for goddamn weeks. TH-cam has mastered the process of getting me to hate a brand for life by shoving it in my face endlessly.
Yeah, me getting TH-cam premium was definitely the best thing I did for companies. I keep a list of companies with unskippable ads to never interact with.
Correct. penquinz0 not a business person, but if he was he could ad that TH-cam fundamentally does not understand business, management, or marketing. It makes sense, it is an engineering based company that would never hire a professional manager to operate it. TH-cam hates *ALL* of it's customers: consumers, content creators, so contributors of all types. But the engineers there ALSO hate the advertisers, the ad-servers, and the ad blockers. It makes sense, engineers, in general, dislike all of humanity. One thing is sure, there is no business in the history of business that has sustained operations indefinitely not putting their customers first. Never has happened, never will. Note the downfall of all financed-owned retailers: JC Penney, Sears, K-mart, Home Depot, Lowes...all financed-owned restaurants in both fast food and middle restaurants. Burger King on the ropes, Mcdonalds on the rapid decline, Kenny Rogers and Big Boys gone, *dozens* of others in the past 15 years. IT based businesses holding on by a thread, often through collusion, Adobe, Microsoft, etc. Businesses that put their customers first all doing fine, Walmart, Amazon, Temu, Space X. The check TH-cam is collecting from the government's $29 billion spent on propaganda last must be huge to keep going this way. Regardless of the amount they are taking to shill themselves, they are not going to change. I removed all content from YT as soon as they ramped-up ads and started this ad-blocking nonsense. For me, the site is nearly entirely unusable, and certainly is without ad-block enabled. If they introduced an ad-free experience I would pay my proportional share...$5 per year. They are already getting free content. The arrogance and greed are obvious to everyone but them...because they don't care about their customers at all......
TH-cam is starting to become like one of those sketchy sites you have to get through 30 layers of ads to use it
Holy shit your right
Yea its sad.
9amime be like:
Daily Mail be like
pornhub gives me less ads these days
TH-cam needs to be taken to court over the fact that they don’t actually check anything they advertise. They regularly have ads that are social security scams, nsfw virus shit, etc. why are they not responsible for those who get scammed?
Imagine how many people have set up adblock on their grandparents devices for this reason alone since thats the demographic most likely to fall for these kinds of scams. And youtube has no system in place to prevent these ads in the first place and instead rely soley on a report based system which means millions could have seen the ads before action has been taken.
Its even worse on Facebook where atleast half of the ads i see on that site seem to be somekind of scam or bogus product.
That won’t work unfortunately. TH-cam is an internet titan. If you do that they will run you out of town with the best lawyers possible and possibly drain you financially. And they know it.
because they have no employees, everything going on at youtube is an automated system, or some kind of AI... No humans work there anymore. :P
@@MyouKyuubime when I lie lmao
owned by google, the law wont do shit
-Gives us NSFW virus ads
-prevents use of adblockers
-makes ads play when videos are paused
“Why do people hate us?”
TH-cam will let thinly veiled NSFW ads onto their homepage for millions to see, but when somebody installs Adblocker or a similiar program THAT’S when a sin has been committed.
TH-cam’s priorities are so severely skewed it’s insane. They let bad behavior proliferate because it makes them pennies but attack normal users trying to avoid that bad behavior.
I had an argument because someone tried to tell me that those ads are "personalized based on traffic". I always turn off that personalization no matter what and I don't keep my history for very long, how the fuck is this nsfw shit personalized???
they never asked why do people hate us
Bold of you to assume they ask why people hate them. They don't care. The only thing they would ask is "why aren't we getting money?"
@@AdventVFX and its sad cuz us gen Z grew up watching TH-cam without having to deal with these problems, when I have kids I’m gonna keep them away from TH-cam, it’s so misleading now
I agree with you. 5-10 min of ads to watch a video is making it unusable. The whole internet is becoming unusable with ads. So many websites make you disable your adblock to see the article.
Fook me I wish i got only 10 mins of adverts!!!!!
Honestly and genuinely telling the truth that if I go on yt on my xbox I get ads on videos literally every single second!
I couldnt turn off yt on my xbox a few weeks back as my controller turned off and wouldn't turn on and during a video that was 40 mins long in the first 10 mins of the video I genuinely had over 100 adverts, they were honestly every second, I even filmed a part of it on my phone as my mates didn't believe me how often I was being bombarded, 6 seconds of the ten minutes before I turned the xbox off was the longest it went without a ad... my ps is now doing the same and as of this week my pc is also doing it.
I'm currently watching a documentary and I've been hit with ads every 3rd minute to the second, but what's worse is if I pause the video then press play I'll get ads even if ads only played one second before I paused video....
Gotten to the point where I'm starting to despise yt which was my favorite thing to watch as I cannot stand TV due to ads...
Those random websites that make you turn off adblockers I usually just leave - what’s the point in turning off adblocker for a website that I don’t even know has the information I’m looking for?
I just disable that screen with ublock origin
If I end up on a site that makes me turn off my adblock just to read an article or whatever, I close that tab. It's not worth the hassle.
I love how TH-cam just now unveiled 3 ADS that can be unskippable, stacked on which just proves TH-cam’s greediness
It’s actually crazy to me that they have the audacity to play ads when a video is paused and call it an experience
Yeah
Well it is a experience, just not a good one.
It's actually crazy that we are still using TH-cam with all the alternatives out there.
@@GatsuKS like what
We're cooked, need a replacement ASAP.
I remember when ads in youtube were little banners on the botton of the video.
the golden days.
I remember when TH-cam did not have ads at all.
@@AMP3083official
I remember when TH-cam didn't censor people at all.
oh my god you just unlocked a memory. i remember trying to click on it but accidentally clicking on the banner itself or so but wow
bruh i still have that am i the only one💀
-"why are you in jail"
-"I used an adblocker on youtube"
-"damn, now it's time for our sponsor"
POV u live in an ancap community:
instead of getting a new adblocker, let's get a new youtube, ey?
I can't even talk about "Courage" 🦁 replacing Chrome without my comment being auto-deleted. Check that out instead.
I can't even talk about "Courage" 🦁 instead of Chrome without my comment getting auto-deleted. Try that.
-*puts on ear defenders*
-"now you can't tell me a sponsor!"
Ads ruined regular television. I don't even watch tv anymore. When a 90-minute movie takes 3 hours to watch on TV, it's too much
It's why I download all my movies.
same, and still my family wonders why i don't watch tv anymore and instead i watch TH-cam with ad and pop-up blocking.
That's going a bit far, because at least TV has somewhat normal commercials, it's not like they're advertising stuff like, "GO TO THIS TOTALLY NOT SCAM WEBSITE TO PLAY GTA V ONLINE FOR FREE!" They advertise normal products on Television. Heck, if TH-cam would just give me normal ads, I wouldn't even use an adblocker.
What's really scummy with how much ads have affected cable/satellite programming, they slightly speed up the playback of the show you're watching leaving more time for ads during commercial breaks. I remember used to commercial breaks during a 30 minute program having maybe 4 minutes but 8 at most. Past couple years after they started speeding up playback I've noticed it hits anywhere from 9 minutes to almost 11 minutes total during a 30 minute program. Cable is dying out, when my provider came by a week ago to give me the upgraded router and saw the cable box they told me that their company no longer have cable boxes anymore and if it were to go out there's no replacement and I would have to switch to their streaming service.
@@capnslurp3071 The shows aren't sped up though? what are you smoking? 🤣
I love it when TH-cam advertises actual NSFW scam shit and has the audacity to actively antagonize anyone who is using an ad blocker to avoid getting viruses. It's especially awful given how fucking frequent ads show up today. The Adpocalypse looks like paradise in comparison to today.
that bot ahh reply is like a cherry on too
speak of the mr beast bot
Like the comment below yours that i al going to report :/
Not to mention the bot problem
@umuppp-e7n Now we just need a bot blocker web extension!
I started using an adblocker because of the CONSTANT gambling ads that I started getting once I turned 18. I have never been interesting in gambling and it was disturbing to see one ad calling out to gamblers who wanted to "find that flutter feeling". It's just insane to me that ads can so blatantly target addicts like that, its like they don't care for anyone's well-being as long as they get money out of them
I know Google has options to limit gambling and alcohol ads, but let me tell you the one for alcohol does not work.
I wish they'd let me limit car ads; I don't even have a license, gdi
Underrated
Well, turning 18 has few perks, and minuses... You loose the attention of PDFs but you gain the attention of Phub-like corpos:
"Mmhm fresh blood. Wanna get boned on a hub-like site or waste your life away gambling? Depending on your gender 🙃"
@@BlackOrderAlchemist I have tried fully customizing the ad area in google and it does nothing
I get these as a minor
I think the biggest slap in the face is how a two second sound clip on TH-cam could serve you a 15 second ad before it. That is criminal
Yup. If the video is 30-60 seconds, expect equally long ads. 🙄 It's extremely stupid. Humanity is exceedingly dense.
Or the one minute long ads about phones! On a 10 sec clip of memes!
Well if people just watched the ads to start off with you would have the old small ads but because less people see it they need to get more bang out of those who see it.
literaly the same??? !?!? whyyy????
I got 3 15 second ads for a 5 second video
Ads in the middle of my PAID Netflix and Prime subscriptions is INFURIATING!
I got an amazon fire tablet, you have to watch an ad any time you turn it on
@@max-ym7bv Get a samsung tablet, you get so much freedom and guess what? No ads! well, with adblockers witch you can get on amazon fire tablets.
Its freaking annoying on Spotify too when you wanna listen to audio books. After paying nearly $15 for it gone.
"TH-cam officially confirmed that videos are not allowed anymore. Just ads."
(4 years later)
Sounds like a plague inc. news article. 😄
Dont give them ideas..
it’s funny because ad blockers are also fighting back :)
@@Ozzy622 2 years max, take it or leave it
Fun fact: if you use a VPN and set it to a country where TH-cam is not monetized, you can avoid ads without an adblocker.
An example is Maldives
Noted.
or use proper blockers and firefox
Using YT in Russia was the best experience I’ve had with YT(until the government decided to artificially slow it down so people are forced to use their video platforms)
I'm surprised they haven't tried fighting VPN's because "GASP there using it to stop adds!"
@@kirabad-artist6532we got GoodbyeDPI so it's still the best experience, no ads since February 2022, I forgot how disturbing it is to actually watch an advertisement, weird flex but yeah lmao
If ublock gets blocked, the devs get an update out hours to a day after.
When Google rolled out server side ads as a test, ublock devs went "okay, bet" and in like a week, those ads were blocked.
the magic of free and open source software. love these guys
ublock origin is fucking awesome. I haven't seen a single one of these notifications.
like how Kira wrote secret messages in prisoners' suicide notes as a test, and L went "okay, bet" and gave him a fake 4th message when they talked about the Kira case
It's insane. The only reason I even find out about this bullshit is because of videos of people complaining. Haven't seen an ad in years.
@@wea69420 same, and i'm scared to change anything about my browser setup because of it
The entire reason I moved to watching TH-cam in the first place was to avoid the minutes of ads you get on tv so why make TH-cam the same? I actively try to avoid any products that are unskippable ads these days.
I was so happy getting rid of cable & watching youtube. Now youtube plays ads after every other paragraph.
What makes it worse is you can't even go back to TV, it's all kind of the same stuff or replays.
Fun fact: even the literal FBI recommends people to use ad blockers because of how often ads are used to commit identity theft and other digital crimes. TH-cam and Twitch would rather put their users at risk than lose a tiny bit of money from adblockers.
I mean, they can just white-list TH-cam, I highly doubt TH-cam ads will introduce viruses or criminal elements.
Man, I hate cringe ads and crypto investment scam ads, but salute to Penguinz0 for calling out TH-cam on their own platform.
I think the reason they're really cracking down on it now is because of profits, specifically their investors. I heard from somewhere that they need to keep growing to keep their investors happy, but because TH-cam is practically EVERYWHERE already, they have to find others ways to continue profiting. Take this with a massive clump of salt because I dont even remember where I heard this.
holy shit lol
the power of greed, amirite?
"It is not possible to use the internet without an adblock"- as someone who was adblock illiterate until just recently.... my experience with finally discovering adblock can be likened to when ancient humans discovered fire. There's no going back. I'll never go back to those dark days of being bombarded with ads ever again.
I grew up in the days of old where your bandwith was slow AF and limited and so many ads started playing audio/video as well as having drop downs which hog the screen and cover the GTA3 cheat codes you are looking for with bright flashy shit to trigger siezures while installing dozens of viruses on your machine. The moment I learned adblock existed I grabbed it without mercy.
How do I get one, and which do you recommend?
@@WritingNomad-PLChrome/firefox extension, ublock origin
Recommend a few
@@MIKEY777_there’s a ton of chrome extension ad blockers that are 100% safe choose whatever one works best for you :)
youtube is more hellbent on blocking adblockers than doing something about the bots
Yeah
Because it hurts their money.
Of COURSE a greedy corporation would care about even a cent of loss profits.
The fact that I’m surprised to see the reply here isn’t a bot speaks volumes.
Nvm it is a bot. Also there’s a bunch of bots here now. I hate this website.
@@fredrikcarlgren4538bot
I once tried turning ad blocker off to be nice to TH-cam and give them revenue. At one point I clicked on an ad that turned out to be a virus. Because of this I will never click an ad again even if it interests me. If they want people to stop using ad blocker they need to improve the ads and make them more trustworthy. Ad blocker or not I literally never trust ads anymore.
The three most annoying things are:
- The majority of ads don't interest me at all!
- Many yt ads sound like a scam
- The audio volume increasing suddenly, with the potential too suffer hearing damage when wearing headphones...
especially for asmr content... watching the asmr on max volume and then suddenly loss of hearing because of a random ad
That's the worst, actually. Decades ago federal law banned TV commercials from being above the volume of the TV by a fixed decibel rate. It passed with full bipartisan support. They need to do the same for internet advertising
I thought I was the only one who noticed this! I could have my volume all the way up on a video and it still sound quiet, but as soon as an ad plays the volume doubles.
30 fucking seconds ads
It’s always medicine or food or clothes. Like literally all the things we alr know we need lol. So dumb
Ads between every song in a playlist is unforgivable
This!
But this way they will bully you to buy the premium :/
@@Finnishmanni youtube music has less ads
This is why I went for Spotify.
absolutely diabolical 😭
Spotify playing 5-6 ads for 5 songs but people accept that
What's crazy to me is that in addition to their attack on ad blockers they have at the same time made ads more annoying. They're now longer, the skip button often now has a longer delay before being available, you might have an ad with a 30 second countdown and think "great, I can watch the video in 30 seconds" but then when that ad finishes we get a second 30 second ad.
It's also often the same ads over and over again and advertisers that design ads for online platforms tend to subscribe to the "make it annoying and people will remember it" method
Doesn't even make me want to buy what they're advertising, just makes me hate them
absolutely!! I occasionally go to yt on my switch to listen to music, and have a minute of unskippable ads. makes me wanna throw my switch out the window
Use google extension script injectors and find an ad block script
Annoying unskippable ad --> Be sure to NOT buy that product!
I just clicked on an 8 minute video, got 2 ads to start, clicked to the middle, instantly another ad.
I instantly paused, copied the URL, and went over to a browser which actually works.
6:57 The thing is they even show ads on videos that arent even monetized
i'm not monetizing and they put ads on my videos 😭😭
@@phoebe_nerd And that is what pisses me off the most. Im not eligable for revenue but you still going to put ads on my vids without sending me a penny, okay youtube...
"Ad blockers violate ytubers tos"
"TH-cam most the ads I get also violate the tos"
When are corpos gonna learn they're not allowed to violate the law with their trashy terms of service?
Rhetorical.
All the problems on TH-cam yet they’re focused on ad blockers.
Best part is anytime i report them nothing happens lol
When tyranny becomes law rebellion becomes duty.
I want some big creator to make a 20 minute compilation of all the worst ads that get put on this platform (as well as all the links from each ad in the description) and see how long it takes for the video to get taken down. That appeal process would be the best shit to watch.
Good to know TH-cam won’t do a thing about one creator posting another’s address online for millions of Instagram followers but the moment people start blocking ads it’s a code red and they go into immediate damage repair.
One doesn’t affect their earnings
@umuppp-e7n i hope it was lia
@@SirLightsOut99 who posted a address?
@@rhythmdude it's a bot
@@JulesEatesBeans Hes referring to when SSSniperwolf doxxed Jacksfilms
You know what I hate more than being forced to watch ads? Scam ads and malicious ads that are shoved down my throat by an ad company that cannot regulate itself properly.
@@TheTrueMeLie Agreed.
Fr, youtubers get demonitized if they say ,,fuck" but you can get redirected directly to Porn Sites *and / or* have viruses and scams advertized by an AI Voice and that's fine and dandy according to the YT CEO
I clicked a google ad once that blackscreened and froze my computer, couldn't use task manager or any windows commands. had to force shutdown, restart. I will never not use adblock. It would be like unprotected sex with a hooker if I didn't. I will script and ad block till I die. OR I will just not use the internet.
Right. Because I poop just fine every day. Sometimes twice a day. Lol.
@@420frankp?
Ghostery is a good effective adblock. Literally my singular reaction to any and every ad is "SILENCE, BRAND" and skipping as quickly as I'm allowed, I am not even looking at what they're advertising, I'm just seeing red. I won't even remember what they're trying to sell me.
Trying to use the Fandom site is by far one of the worst experiences with ads you can get. You try looking up a small tidbit of info about something and you get an automatic video ad playing while following the page as you scroll, several other banner ads to the side, another pop up that will slide into view, and just overall jittery usage because of them. And god forbid you try using the site on mobile, can feel almost unusable sometimes.
My god I fr it got so fucking bad
protop for fandom wikis- change fandom in the url to 'breezewiki'
We shouldn't need to do this but it's helped a lot for me when checking game info on my phone
yo slime rancher pfp, never seen that before
so many ads it makes my phone heat up its actually miserable
It's unusable on mobile. You can't even scroll as when ads pop up it makes the page move.
TH-cam is focusing more on adblockers than the bots in their comment sections 💀 come ON man
fr, it's so fcking annoying to open a comment thread with the first 2 comments being fcking bots. It's the same thing as charlie mentioned with ads, I just click off the comment thread
If only it was just bots but now it's bots promoting the sickest crap possible.
Well one of them effect their precious money
wouldve been funny if a bot replied to this exact comment
@@nahelbeukRemember when “my farts are better than Penguinz0s farts” was a thing. Gosh I miss it
The funniest thing is, that even demonetized videos have tons of ads. So the youtuber gets no money, but the viewers still have to sit through the same ads as any monetized video.
@GlobnarTheGreen we all do
Agree
So logically speaking the best solution to this is just to remove ads altogether from the demonetized videos, no?
funnily enough, i have not clicked an ad in my life and im not getting any for month's now
@@yengidemir i don't think thats possible. maybe you're just tuning them out?
I put up with TH-cam ads until about 5 months ago. What got me on adblocking TH-cam? Them spiking the amount of ads. Now they dont make any ad money off me. Genius TH-cam you got greedy and tried to get more and instead ended up getting nothing
Same here. Constantly shoving ads in my face every 5 minutes, ruins my viewing experience.
It's like I'm watching a video, only to have an ad pop up in my face when I least expect it.
And my reaction is: "Get the F*** out of my face and let me watch the damn video!"
I can't wait to be in the middle of following a DIY or cooking recipe where I need to occassionally pause.
I can see it now.
Detailed instruction > pause > ad > forget what the instruction was due to ad > rewind > rewatch > pause > pause ad > forget again > repeat until exhaustion or kitchen fire has occured.
Haha
Did anyone ever tell you the definition of Insanity ?
or accidentally create a eldritch horror
💀 its a cycle 🔄
They want us to spend more time in the platform
@@adri745ka guy named vaas told me 😔
My school uses “Adblock” and it just forces the teacher to watch a black screen for like 2 minutes before the video plays.
Yeah
Ublock origin is better
@umuppp-e7n what the fuck
@@deadman419 Fr it is, Ive never got a ad in like months when they announced ad blockers are not allowed and I never even thought about it after
@@deadman419nobit isnt lmao
Dude, you are so on the ball with this. I had the misfortune of having to access TH-cam via TV for a couple of months, so no ad blocker. It sucked big time and more often than not, I quit watching the video I clicked on because I wasn't prepared to sit through multiple 60 seconds of ads to watch an 8 minute long vid. Hell, I don't even remember what any of those ads were for, which shows how ineffective they actually are.
YT has become it's own worst enemy. Without ad block, I would probably walk away from the platform altogether.
Honestly though. I have a TV downstairs but I just can't watch youtube on it at all. It is genuinely the worst experience I've ever had. The ads are just insane, constant, and terrible.
You only got 60 seconds of ads to an 8 minute video? My TV did 2 minutes of ads every 2 minutes
@@mr420quickscops2 It was getting like that by the end of the couple of months. I guess the longer you watch YT on TV, the longer and more frequent the ads get.
hey tips for yall! when ads play on ur tv, click on the information (the i in the circle thing) and click on not show this ad again, and return to video! hope this helps!
@@alex_da_neko Unfortunately, I was only able to do that for around 15 advertisements. After that the info button completely vanished and I only had the option to directly open the ad. Which sucks because I did it to all the regular legit ads, and then got only Elon Musk crypto scam videos and was unable to report them
This is why I get annoyed when people say "Just use ad block" like bruh, the ad block itself is getting blocked
ublock
i'm a totally blind user and with a screen reader and ads, youtube is unusable without premium. half the time i couldnt find the skip ad button, and half the time the refreshing of the page to display the ad would confuse the screen reader cursor so i'd be lost
I'm sorry about that, man. There should be rules these corporations have to follow in regards to accessibility.
wtf that's awful youtube should really be thinking more about accessibility and inclusivity rather than lining their already filled pockets
Why buy premium when u can use adblocker?
Ya dosent help they purposely move the skip ad button by shrinking the screen 50% so you can’t get used to it anymore, sketchy pieces of shit.
@@jaclynm3618 tbh i think our money goes to creators
Another thing to consider is people who are on limited data plans. The ads use quite a chunk of that data. Especially some of the news websites that are loaded with ads. Adblockers are absolutely necessary.
Adding to this! Unlike normal yt vids, you can't adjust the quality playback of ads. So if it's like a 4K resolution ad. You gotta watch it in its full quality.
@@Mellohiveeyup im all too used to waiting 30 seconds for a 15 second ad to load, total bullshit
You can use a VPN to change your location like "Bhutan #1 - virtual." They don't have ads there. And TH-cam won't notice it
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sometimes I'll be watching TH-cam on cellular data on a car ride or a road trip and we'll pass through a spot with garbage cell service, so I just turn the video quality down ! but the stupid ads still play at full resolution, I had an ad load for 4 minutes once. Why can't TH-cam detect the ad is taking forever to load and lower the quality or stop serving the ad?
I have Premium ONLY because I'm a recovering alcoholic and constantly being shown ads for alcohol was a living hell. YT sucks. I miss the days where when one site started to suck, a new and better one popped up. YT is greedy af and they don't care about its users.
For what it’s worth, you can tell TH-cam to block all booze ads if you have ad personalisation on without YT premium.
They are litterally blackmailing you. It should be illegal. In my country it is illegal. But the government doesnt do anything to big tech corpos.
@@mcbamm5683YOU MEAN TO TELL ME TH-cam PREMIUM DOESNT ERASE ADS FOR THE USERS ANYMORE?!
GET TH-cam REVANCED!!
you can filter out those from ad preferences, and its based on your uses and personality, but i agree premium is so damn good
I have actually contacted many products from YT ads....Told them I would NEVER patronize their products
because I have seen their ON YT.
>TH-cam makes a patch
>Someone patches their Adblock
Repeat forever
TH-cam will be slower and slower after the race lmao
its a multi-billion dollar company owned by a multi-trillion dollar company against a few individuals. eventually the cycle will break.
@@tahamughees459yes, because TH-cam will stop caring but normal people will never
@@emanuelstornello8009 Yeah but eventually people will leave yt.
Right now ads have their own streams, but once TH-cam will have ads into the same video stream as the main video, we won't really be able to block ads anymore.
I completely agree. And the other half of the problem is that half of these ads that are being shoved down your throat are literal scams or NSFW. God forbid you tap on one on accident your device will probably get instantly infected with 17 different pieces of malware.
you also forget the mountain of malware infested ads, that try and put scripts or worse on your PC, marly by the ad playing/buffering in...
I got ads for a mobile game that's falsely advertising using footage of a pornographic *VORE* game in its ad. I'm genuinely flabbergasted watching a pixelated girl get her clothing blasted off and then being eaten by something. What the fuck man, I'm leaving this site if I can't use adblock.
online advertisements need the exact same kind of regulations and strictness as TV ads at this point.
I've never seen any NSFW ads
Can you even get viruses without downloading anything?
TV TH-cam is worse. I keep getting 50 second unskippable ads, and it's starting to look like actual Television where you get 15 minutes of advertisements nonstop between broadcasts.
TV has the power of if you report the ad as inappropriate it immediately skips it 95% of the time
I was watching War of worlds 2005 on my TV. I got around 8-10 minutes between ads. Oh and the THE BROADCAST WILL CONTINHE AFTER ONLY ONE AD. Tge ad being 40 seconds long
I don't mind 30 second ads but pretty often I get a full 30 minute to 2 hour long show as ads sometimes from PragerU or one of their affiliates. I'm not going to watch that much of another thing in the middle of a video I'm awake for. I often play a music playlist when I go to sleep and they could slip in a two hour video then while I'm unconscious but not when I'm awake.
OMG yes. I was recently pet sitting at a friend's house, didn't have my PC with me so watched some YT on her TV. I was appalled at how bad it was compared to on my PC
They do something disgusting now where they make you watch 1-2 mins of ads "instead of more adbreaks" in a longer video, except they run the same number of breaks as before, so it has just skyrocketed.
If ads were skippable after like 2 seconds instead of 5 seconds (or just immediately, like they were at one point), I'd be much less likely to crash my bike on the way to work. I often listen to videos while biking, to work or otherwise. I'll skip the ad at the beginning and then put my phone in my pocket, but then there's an adbreak in the middle of the video, so I have to take my phone out and skip it. I was running late for work once, and nearly bailed just waiting for the ability to skip it.I'm convinced it's like 6 or 7 seconds too, cause those "5 seconds" feel longer to me. Sometimes I'll let the ad play, like if I'm in the bike lane or somewhere with cars rushing by, but then some ads are waaaaay longer than 30 seconds. I was cooking once in my kitchen when an ad started to play. I was unable to skip it right away otherwise my food would have burned, so I let it play. It went on and on and on, and finally when I was able to skip it, I was stunned. The ad was AN HOUR LONG!! What in the actual fuck?! I'm there watching a ten minute video, and an ad starts that's six times as long as the video? Who the fuck is going to watch that??
What makes it worse is that even the “do not see this ad anymore” button is that it doesnt even work. I see the same temu ads and native ads pop up even after hitting that button several times
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from where I am there are even ads promoting gambling, like 5 iterations of them
I blocked likely 15-20 temu ads and I think I'm finally rid of them. Let us just hope this comment doesn't trigger them again... 😑
I am so tired of seeing the Hero-Wars ads. So...tired...
@@smugsneasel At least I never have to sit through these trashvertisements. Skip, skip, skippedy skip.
The only way that I’ll even consider getting rid of ad blocker is if youtube:
•Stops hosting scam and NSFW ads
•Deplatform creators that promote scam and/or NSFW content (especially to kids)
I dont want to give ad money to a company with little to no morals
Lol so you'll never stop using adblock ever.
@Ratsain What about NSFW for adults?
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I can't even say the word "Courage" 🦁 instead of "Shiny" to surf the web without my comment getting deleted. Try that instead of "Shiny".
@@williamyoung9401
Try flaming canidae.
No courage needed.
One of my favorite quotes by Drew Golden is "So I was scrolling through ads when I stumbled on to some content"
hahahah
At this point, it doesn't even look like ads are meant to be benefit the advertiser. It looks like ads are meant to annoy the consumer enough to make them shell out the money for premium subscriptions. Like they're all just a TH-cam Premium Ad.
the fact that ads on when watching on xbox can last over a minute with 5 unskipable ads and then once you skip the ad it immediately gives you ANOTHER AD even though you just skipped one is actually insane.
watching youtube on consoles is unbearable
Recently ive started noticing that, when i skip the first ad it dosent sip the second it just plays the second ad
Same on app, even todays I had the situation where I skip ad and it constantly play another 2, konger than previous, sometimes that happen when I try to rewind 10 seconds and it hit ad marker, YT became truly disgusting when it comes to ads, not to mention how much NSFW, clickbait and shady stuff come up as "ads" and how easy it is to click on them...
I cam no longer watch YT on the xbox anymore due to how fanatical the ads became...
I'm not even exaggerating when I say over course of 10 minutes on a 40 min video I genuinely and honestly had over a 100 adverts! I was getting bombarded every second as if my xbox had a virus, the longest period I didn't have a ad was 6 seconds...
Couldn't even turn TH-cam of as my wired control turned off and wouldn't turn back on so I just sat through it whilst tidied my office...
Honestly never seen such ridiculous number of ads on a video, it's now started happening on my pc, right now I'm trying to watch a video about storming of Normandy, the video is 51 mi uses and 52 seconds long and onnevery 3rd minute to the second I've had duel unskippable ads and if I pause it, the second I press play I get ads again even if I just sat through ads even 2 seconds before!
Content blockers work. The worst that ever happened was YT had a tactical victory for about two weeks in summer of 2023. What you have to worry about now, is YT will start a DDOS (by analogy not a true DDOS) on your local computer resources. Running an HDD for your page file, it's going to be at 100% while watching YT, if you have an SSD for your page file, it will be smoked within three months if you watch regularly. They also deliberately fill up your standby cache and refuse to release it. (yes YT defender trolls they are doing it, I have the source code so suck it.)
TH-cam staff spending weeks of resources on coding to get around or "discourage" adblocks only to see any progress they make get invalidated within minutes by a group of amateurs will forever bring me joy
yet they won't bat an eye to the numerous amounts of spambots in the comments.
Thats the best part. Months of useless corpo meetings, resources, coding, all blown away by some dudes for the lolz.
Kinda sucks that adblockers are usually open source, which means google can figure out exactly how to fight against it
I wonder if we have an undercover hero at youtube intentionally making their code easy to break. "Nah trust me boss, this function is ESSENTIAL"
@@ajfgaming7387it didnt really help them all this time so not really
They force me to watch 2 unskippable scam ads before EVERY VIDEO and then they have the audacity to bitch at me for using an adblocker.
Don't forget after aswell, so if your on auto play or listening to music, you get 4 ads in a row like half the length of the actual content.
Honest cuz 😭
Okay lil bro, we all totally believe you, for real we do.
I have TH-cam revanced
@@-Mintyy "Lil bro"
The fact that you recognize that adds are more likely to drive viewers away had me subscribe, dude.
If blocking ads violates the terms, why do they allow malicious ads? It's not enough to know everything and sell to third parties, now you have to accept receiving proposals from scammers.
They don't vet the ads. It's a highly automated process
it’s not like yt doesn’t sell ur shit anyways
I use Brave Browser and never get any ads. If TH-cam stops working on Brave Browser, then i guess I'll just have to watch something else.
the 'ConsumentenBond' in the netherlands 🇳🇱 is pulling google into court for selling our private info
Their terms are a security risk. I'd like them to please take me to court and force that issue.
The issue is that TH-cam has no real competitor, so they can get away with making the User Experience more hostile.
Yeah
They have, nobody uses them. Odysee for example. Even TH-camrs who complain about TH-cam refuse to take the time to dual upload.
Google is a monopoly
One could say they are the EA of online content.
Rumble is a competitor
If more people buy their premium they'll start creating tiers of premium where you'll get ads even with the low tier premium
Yup just like Hulu and Disney+ people literally pay for ads it sucks
no premium or ad blocker and still dont have to deal with ads on utube
Just goes to show how people are inherently selfish. TH-cam is owned by Google. Do you pay for Google searches? Do you pay to watch TH-cam videos? Do you pay to upload TH-cam videos? How about Google make an update so it costs you 50 cents for each minute of video you upload? Maybe you'll prefer that type of business model then.
@@azurelava7796 These are bad examples. Google has time and time again proven that they''re not the most trustworthy search engine. They sell your personal data and search history left and right.
If companies want to appear on the first page of your google search they have to pay for the search ranking. This is especially important for startups.
People make content and upload it to youtube and you suggest that they should even pay for that? TH-cam's business model revolves around people making content in their free time. If nobody made content there'd be no TH-cam and we wouldn't even have this conversation.
@@bjorn1583are you using a VPN or just actually in a country where TH-cam isn't monetized? I'm curious what your method is for not seeing ads
I will never give Burger King another penny after having my ears repeatedly assaulted by their obnoxious “have it your way” campaign.
The fact that the FBI says you need AdBlock says all you need to know
Source?
...when..?
you're about a year late to the party
Source: Trust Me Bro
@@AkSpace47 Like a few months or a year ago. Mutahar made a video about it
As a guy with sensitive hearing, sometimes ads (not literally) blow up my ear drums, I literally had to move to twitch while my ad blocker wasn't working just to not get my ears destroyed since I can't auto mute ads without muting the video itself, I wouldn't even mind ads taking my time itself but the sound, I can't take it
FR SOMETIMES THEY'RE LOUDER THAN THE VIDEO 💀💀
Pretty sure there are extensions that can mute browser tab audio during ads idk tho
my farts are better than Charlie's farts
get uBlock Origin. Works on Firefox and Chrome, and blocks TH-cam ads completely, ignoring the anti-adblock popup and an ad-sized "delay" before the video starts playing.
you need an ad muter on mobile.
I know nobody at TH-cam HQ will see my comment, but you bring up a good point about skippable vs. unskippable ads. If I am forced to watch an ad that I don't want to see, I will go out of my way to ensure that I never purchase that company's products or services ever again.
agree 100% with that. anytime i'm forced by any site to watch an ad i think that.
If you see a TH-camr is promoting something or doing an ad read, it's probably sketchy.
Here Here.
I refuse to use the services or products of any company that basically grapes me with ads (as in I do not have a choice but must accept the ad)
Spite is a powerful tool
I'll literally inconvenience myself just to avoid a company I recognize from Advertising based on principle
Don't forget they allow ads from mobile games/apps that portray sexual innuendos, fake and copyrighted contents, online casinos, and scams.
I've reported every single one of them, and TH-cam still keeps it.
I sometimes watch videos on my consoles whenever I’m not on my PC. Looking over to see a 50 second “long ad”. They’re unskipable. I genuinely feel like I’m watching cable again
Same, it's inconvenient as hell if you have a TV
Yes, thats the model they would like to get back to. With you having as little choice as possible. The censorship is still the most insidious part of this platform though.
Go report the ad on the “i” button, use whatever, all the ads are skipped, dont thank me
Yess thisss I swear the ads are triple as long compared to a phone and also a thing noticed on console is that you can skip and ad to another ad if you didn’t like that one 😐
@@SecretMarsupial and Google rolling out Manifest V3 soon as well, meaning most adblockers lose a good chunk of their functionality on chromium based browsers, you can see what they're trying, thank god i'm on firefox with ublock origins.
The funniest thing is when instead of ads you get "surveys", and then you get asked by youtube:"how has your experience with ads been as of late?" HOW DO THEY EXPECT ANYONE TO SERIOUSLY ANSWER ANYTHING OTHER THAN "HORRIBLE"
Some of them, like the one where they ask if you have heard of a brand, are not too horrible, but it's best not to answer
@@perilousintent2936 i use zen browser and cachy os btw☺
It's worse when you try to skip the survey without answering. They usually throw a prompt up at me wanting me to answer the survey, and the only way to get past the survey is to select an answer. Literally happens every.single.time.
I always answer neutral so they can stop wasting my time. I rarely use TH-cam on my phone anymore, I stick to my pc with uBlock origin.
it just feels like they're mocking you
The most ridiculous part is: youtube has a special player for kids. Like some videos are flagged as content for kids and have some features blocked. And still these videos get ads for like casinos or fake game apps or adult products. Like… YOU KNOW ITS FOR KIDS…. WHAT ??? And the audacity that you want to watch like a 1 minute clip and could end up watching 30 seconds of ads is wild.
Also the fucking lie of „ oh the ads finance our platform and pay the creators“ Yeah sure, its not by coincidence so you make a huge profit of the platform
the most annoying is like 1 minute or 2 minute unskipable ads like ZZZ ads youtube is just becoming ridiculous, but hey that's corporate greed
100% facts this comment
I've seen the stuff they push towards kids, might as well take them to a child molester's house.
and also,,,, some people uploading straight up porn that's labelled as "for kids" ._.
Well for some reason, the issue when they had that big fine from the FTC was that they were gathering info on them to give targeted ads, not that they were advertising to kids in general, which means that they now just don't give personalized ads to those videos... So on one hand they don't promote things that children might buy, on the other they now give them general ads, which could be anything, even things not safe for kids knowing TH-cam's lax advertisement regulation.
Funnily enough I think that's worse overall then just giving targeted ads, and realistically they shouldn't be allowed to advertise to children at all(well to the best of they're ability anyway)
I've found that whenever you're given the infamous "Adblockers violate TH-cam's terms of service" popup, you can get around it by being in full screen and clicking the space bar. For some reason, this still plays the video. The only catch with this is when you exit full screen mode, the video player closes the video and only plays the audio.
We're regressing to the era of cable tv commercials again
We're already in it for TH-cam.
they're not even really that bad. i'll sumtimes sit with the tv on and usually its 2 30-60 sec ads, then 15-30 minutes of no ads, depending on what channel ur on and what ur watching
@@AngelDustIsSus i agree and the times you get like 6 30 second ads there is always a next button after the first ad that skips you to the last add with a skip button ontop of it
Nah, we just need a viable alternative to google/YT
@@AngelDustIsSus That's weird bc I just got 2 5 minute ads on a 20 minute music video. Maybe using anecdotal evidence isn't a good way to argue?
Ads have always been extremely intrusive. I've been using adblockers since 2007 and I absolutely refuse to browse the internet without them. If a website tries to force me to disable my adblockers, I won't use it.
any time i find an article somewhat related to what i was looking for and i go to the article and it says i have to turn off ad blocker, 99 times out of 100 the article doesnt end up helping me anyways and disabling ad blocker is just a waste of time
100% agree, if they cant take adblock, the site is fishy. The funny thing is i watch alot of ads on the internet, the ones I chose cause i really wanna buy that lol
I thought TH-cam added ads back in 2011
@@kitsune_forest Turn off ad blocker to read this article wrote by ChatGPT!
I highly doubt you will stop using TH-cam… YT knows this which is why they abuse it. They have a monopoly
It’s great to see that almost everybody on the internet agrees for once, just literally rebelling against TH-cam's ad campaigns.
Here’s a contribution to one of my favorite creators.
Cant wait for youtube to take a part of this donation for themselves
Wow legend 🔥🔥
This deserves more likes
this is sigmund
he can get yt premium now for 3 months
your two options are: use multiple browsers (that actually works), older versions sometimes bypass all of this for months
another option is, leave, thats usually the smarter option anyway, if they penalize me with ads, i penalize them with less views
The harder they push unskippable ads the more ppl push back
1 Skippable Ads you can cope with but when i started getting unskippable ads that's when i decided to research how to block ads on both browser and mobile TH-cam, now they're doing double unskippable ads
The people _always_ win. I cannot fathom why corporations like these cannot recognise this simple fact.
Yeah, if there's no work around, i'll just not use it.. and come back when I can use ab
And let us not forget about the topic of unjustly shadowbanning peoples comments for anyone who has done nothing to deserve that.
I once got 4 ads in a row (3 of them were unskippable)
@@lemagicbaguette1917 Indeed they do. I use a mirror site of TH-cam, its the exact same as youtube just with no ads and sadly the creators gets 0 benefit from me watching, but that is what TH-cam has forced me to do. If i remove adblock i get 40 fake mrbeast ads and if you accidentally click one while scrolling you can get your info stolen. I started using mirror sites for everything, free netflix, youtube without ads etc, free UFC fights.
If I'm forced to watch an unskippable ad, I make a personal vow to _NEVER_ buy that particular brand of product. I'm sure I'm not alone.
I just mute it and look away. Can't influence me to buy your product if I physically block your ad from being perceived by me.
@@callyral Yeah its still pretty easy to avoid ads on YT, I'm talking more about annoying TV ads, but will absolutely apply it to YT ads if they ever become truly adblock proof as YT wants. You force me to watch an ad, and any chance that I might ever buy your product is _gone._
Same here!
Yeah, it is negative association. It's bad for the platform, and the company that paid to run the ad. Well, as far as reputation goes. Fiscally it's good for the platform.
YEP ive been that way for years. i go out of my way to not buy targeted bs
I got food, i sit down, launch youtube, and watch 3 unskippable ads, and then my food is gone.
Better watch clowds in the sky than watch adds.
I wait till the adds are done then start eating then when one comes on I stop eating till my video plays again
SmartTubeNext for Android TV.
TH-cam ReVanced for Mobile Android devices.
@@lukepenny8601 honestly i just exit youtube alot of the time now. if the content isnt extremely gripping then its not worth dealing with ads, so i'll just go play games or read a book. no ads there.
@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 bro tbh watching clouds move on the sky blue canvas is really relaxing idk why
I refuse to wait for ads to end just to watch something like a neglected pup waiting for dinner
5 years ago youtube changed ads to show twice instead of only one ad.
if they would’ve just stopped tinkering with the ads system there would be way less cases of adblock being used on their site.
Come on. No need to lie. You and everyone else would still use adblocker.
@@ggregg2667 I WAS just too lazy to get an ad block because I thought, it's just an ad I can wait a bit, then double ads and weird/nsfw ads kept showing up so I decided to get ublock. I probably would have kept on not using an Adblock if there weren't those suggestive ads
@@ggregg2667 I know I wouldn't if they'd stopped at two ads per video, as long as the ads were skippable.
@@ggregg2667 maybe but I didn't get one until I started watching yt on my computer which gave me 2 ads at once
@@ggregg2667yeah possibly, the the feeling to have to do that would be a lot less considering 1 skippable ad is literally 5 seconds vs the 15 second un-skippable ad PLUS the 5 second skippable ad.
They also made sure that you can skip not 2 but 1 advertisement with the button 'Skip Ad.' And if you are watching a TH-cam video that lasts for about an hour and a half, an advertisement suddenly appears without you being warned with the text 'Ad will appear in ... seconds'.
Can't even watch a hour long dj mix without the vibe being Interupted by ads now even
Still haven't seen an ad. TH-cam can suck donkey balls.
Saying using Adblock is against our terms of service is like Amazon saying we will refuse you delivery service unless you keep your doors unlocked. Even the FBI recommend you lock your doors and use an Adblock.
Or Amazon saying we won't deliver to you because you don't have prime service.
you can have this item, but you have to shop at a chicken shop
You're literally using something to bypass a system for them to make money and keeping servers up, do you know how expensive and hard to keep up this entire platform and servers are?
@@artistanthony1007 "leave the multibillion company alone!"
How one dimensional. Sad face and pity face. 🤦@@artistanthony1007
My ublock just suddenly stopped working today, theyre startin this war again...
same, jsut came here and sorted comments to recent.
I turned off quick fixes and it seems to have worked for now
I just deleted and reinstalled ublock it works
ADS SHOULD BE REMOVED BECAUSE THEY HAVE, SCAM, NSFW, AND SCAM ADS WHICH MEANS THAT WE SHOULD START AMWAR AGAINST YT ADS
This honestly makes me wonder if ublock origin is as good as people claim?
TH-cam is becoming like commercial cable TV. Was at a hotel the other day, and tried watching a movie; Every 5 minutes like 10 ads played... I got through about 20 minutes of the movie and gave up, just turned it off, and sat in silence 💀
Welcome to the digital distribution future. Our grandkids' minds will boggle at how we were able to stick in a blue ray and watch the entire movie without a single interruption.
@@goodlookinouthomie1757 I agree and still buy physical media for anything I intend to watch again, but even some BDs come with "mandatory" ads like unskippable studio cards and (usually skippable) trailers before it will show you the menu; I think each movie in my Avengers collection takes 60-90 seconds to get to their respective menus while mashing the Skip button. If your BD player is internet-enabled, it will even download new trailers before you can do anything. This for a movie/show you've *purchased to own*.
Like I said, I'll still go physical so I have my own local copy, but even low-form ads (like trailers on a disc) are everywhere.
This guy makes money by subs seeing ads on his vids. He's complaining about making money😂
@@goodlookinouthomie1757 To be fair most movies have ads in them
@@UziMusic Disney was the worst for this, tons of unskippable ads before the movie would play ON A DISK YOU PAID MONEY FOR! But at least they didn't pop in to interrupt the middle of the film...
I’m okay with watching an ad here and there, no problem. I’m getting fed 30-50 second unskippable ads every 3 mins and they expect me to not find a way to block them. Genuinely sickening. EDIT: ALSO creators have ads inside the video, that’s more ads I have to watch!
SponsorBlock exists ;)
its crazy. idk i notice a huge increase in ads at the start of the summer. I do long road trip i listen to longer vids. I was fine with ads because even in 1-3 hour vids they would be spaced good. Now if i watch any vid longer than 25 minutes its like i get an ad every 3-5 minutes.
Overdramatic much
@@kumaye9446 its worse when u tryna wash the dishes and listen to a video only to get double unskipable ads as soon as your hands get wet
Yeah..I really don't get their reasoning...
If they wouldn't make their ads so unbearably long and annoying, people wouldn't bother as much with completely avoiding them.
Having less ads would also make every individual one more valuable.
Having 2 unskippable ads before a livestream is crazy, the audacity TH-cam have to hunt people who use adblockers when they don't do anything on literally anything else
tbh they can hunt me all they want I'll just stop using the platform if they try and take action against me. It's already a huge time waster as it is, it's probably exactly what I need lol.
TH-cam is cooked, i literally tried watching listening to music and got an UNSKIPPABLE. 99+ second ad.
OVER 99 FREAKING SECONDS
I remember back when you didn't need an adblocker. As long as you weren't on somewhere sketchy, you any ads weren't intrusive. They were usually just something off to the side away from the main content. Sometimes you might even see stuff you'd want to click on and it would be something legit.
That was how i found miniclip, it was ad on some website. That got me through a lot of my childhood.
Banner ads! I never felt the need to block static banner ads as a kid, half the time they were selling something relevant to the website you were on. And then full video ads in the corner that would automatically load and play made every web page they were on suddenly take forever to load and threatened to prematurely data cap me...
I remember being a kid and clicking on banner ads for games that ended up being a good chunk of my childhood (club penguin, neopets, howrse, chicken smoothie, etc) that i wouldn't have found otherwise. I miss regular, relevant banner ads :(
Companies don't bother having useful or good ads anymore. They just spam people with dozens of shitty loud and annoying ads and pray it'll somehow turn into more money for them.
Curated banner ads are not just okay, they're actually great. I'm working with a company that uses them every now and then as targeted advertising on relevant websites. They actually drive tons of users our way. The engagement level is huge when done right.
Instead, TH-cam is using the shotgun method. Who cares about a curated user experience? Who needs accountability for whatever garbage they're serving? They'll take money from anyone and slap an ad on anything, regardless of whether it's appropriate or not. They're happy to tank the user experience because they've all but monopolized their market sector and are operating at huge volume. It's really gross and sad; they have no pride.
Yall remember back in the day the only ad we would get was that little rectangle at the bottom that you just had to X out . Now we have unskippable ads and ads even when the video is paused
I remember refusing to update my TH-cam app on my iPod touch simply because I didn’t want the increased ads when they started rolling out for real
Yes good times but now they will probably add it on top of the ads
I remember when an "ad" on youtube was a single square above related videos linking to Newgrounds 🤣
I'll do you one better. I remember back in the day when the only ad you'd get was a little rectangle on the side or top of the page you didn't even have to bother Xing out of, because it stayed unobtrusively in its place. Hell, sometimes they even made a site feel more lively. Funnily how the vast majority of people didn't feel the need to run adblockers in those days 🤔
I’d rather deal with the tiny x on Android phones than 6 ads per video
0:06 insane take
the fact that my ublock counter goes up steadily while watching this video is a constant reminder how close i am to never using youtube again if this adblocker stops working.
Just quickly pulled this from Ublock
Blocked since install8.849M
This is insane, I admit been using it for probably a good few years, but even in the span of a few seconds on the same youtbue tab, I have gone up like by 5.
This is so relatable. My counter was at 650 at the start and at the end of the video is at 800.
@@t_gabiuel6058holy shit
it stopped working for me atm, waiting for ublock update
*looks at the counter*
20 ads blocked
*3 hours later*
7.6k ads blocked
I've been using TH-cam for my primary source of entertainment since 2007. One of the most important and primary benefits this had was that a commercial wouldn't play every five minutes. There has never EVER been an AD that convinced me to buy something, why would I be interested in something that doesn't value my time? They want TH-cam to interrupt me for 10-120 seconds while i'm trying to watch something. That makes me angry... not interested.
Here here man. Right there with you. I've been blindly hoping things would go back to normal since Apocalypse, but that's not happening. I know it's hella wishful thinking, and not realistic. But man do I wish ads could be optional again. Or in the very least not in every single last pixel on the g**d**m internet...
No I agree. I get home from work and want to unwind and watch my fav creators without interruption but I get these stupid ads that make me hate the product or whatever the ad is portraying. Shoot I go back to streaming on tv when it annoys me too much.
Couldn't agree more. I'm so petty that I actively refuse to purchase or use anything I see an ad for.
Couldn't have said it better myself! Started watching youtube around the same time as yourself because I was sick and tired of tv with it's boring useless ads and boring useless shows/movies, so I haven't watched tv since then.
5 seconds it's all a add is
Not just that, but recently, the amount of ads that TH-cam shows me in less than 5 minutes, it's insane. One time, I skipped an ad, and after skipping it, TH-cam immediately showed me another 2 ads. Its just insane how desperate they're for money, its driving me insane this abuse of ads on this platform.
That's not how the ad system works. They give you all the ads at once unless the creator has put in another ad spot directly afterwards. I know a couple channels doing this, and it's horrendous.
@@ryanthompson3737 Well, unless all creators have decided to do that, then that explains everything. But this has been happening to me in every single video I watch, specifically when I watch TH-cam on mobile, on desktop this things don't happen.
@@ryanthompson3737 no bro I have a few videos I seen. That were 3 ads back to back
Its brutal
You can stop ads by Turning your vpn on to Afghanistan server😂
@@AxionParticle I've been having to skip every individual ad on mobile, it won't skip both ads at the same time now. It's even worse when I try and watch anything on my PS4 or Switch because there, you're forced to sit through over a minute of 4 or 5 different ads before the skip button even starts to work
My hardware, my rules.
I love that TH-cam is spending resources, time and money on ad-blockers, while literally millions of people are circumventing and breaking the ad system patch after patch for sport.
I don't think I've seen an ad on TH-cam in over two years.
cmon bruh putting that much effort just get premium better quality and a better experience
@@postalatom256 the thing is, its barely any effort (unless you're talking about the people making these adblockers but even then youtube is putting way more effort into this and atp i think these coders got used to it)
Premium, however, costs 12 dollars, which is also 55 ron for me. That is a lot just for better quality and no ads when i can just get all those for free
@@postalatom256enjoy paying like 200 dollars to this shitty company a year
@@postalatom256 And give them money?
@@postalatom256
I can get a much better experience on GrayJay and it only cost me 10 times one time.
Whoever came up with the idea to play 10 seconds of unskippable ads every 5 minutes should get a transplant of neuralink that plays 10 seconds of unskippable ads every 5 minutes for the rest of their goddamn life
Worse then the chair
Ngl before I had premium (1 week ago) I never experienced that ad heavy
this is basically humanity in a few decades
I have had unskippable ads that were longer than 5 minutes on my smart tv lol
Punishment fitting the crime
Do they not understand that the more intrusive they make ads the more it INCENTIVIZES people to get an adblock?
Most people don't know, and aren't savvy enough to look it up. Scroll through the comments, many are just giving up and paying for premium.
@@FelipeV3444 I don't understand.. I use ublock origin on browser (pc). Firefox with ublock origin on my android phone, (also have the ytube premium app cracked but rarely use it. And a script for twitch. I haven't seen ads in years :D still going strong.
@@EchoBravo5150 sound's like someone's a corporate kissass
@@FelipeV3444 If that were the case, then youtube wouldn't care so much about the adblocks. The overwhelming majority of people are using adblocks.
@EchoBravo5150
Nice rage baiting. Try harder next time.
we're just a multibillion dollar company. we really really need the ad revenue. pleeeeeeease allow ads 🥺
The biggest issue I have with ads on any website is that the people who purchase the ad space don't get checked to see if their ads aren't malicious. The amount of computers I've had to remove malware and sometimes even viruses from is because older people or people who don't know any better go to websites and accidentally or intentionally click an ad and get screwed. If these companies are gonna serve ads they better bend over backwards just to make sure that users of the websites aren't getting their computers rekt.
This. Getting an adblocker took me and my family from dozens of malwares a week to maybe one every three years.
If TH-cam doesn't want people using those, maybe they should make sure they don't force their customers to compromise the security of their computers.
@@AegixDrakan hopefully they themselves r the ones that get hacked instead
TH-cam really acting like we're criminals for dodging 10 unskippable ads to watch a 2-minute video. What's next? A CAPTCHA asking us to identify traffic lights just to prove we're ‘worthy’ of skipping? Soon they'll start running ads about how they're fighting ad blockers, and I still won’t care!
Don't give them "brilliant" ideas like that >.>
If your getting 10 unskippable ads on a 2 minute video then there’s just something wrong with your device or account
Don't give them ideas...
_technically_, under the U.S. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, since it's so incredibly vague, breaking the terms of service (blocking ads on YT) could potentially be construed as illegal.
@@epic_labs Seems technically possible thanks to said vagueness of CFAA but one can hope that it would not be applied in such an extreme case. Still. I could see a megacorp suing adblockers over lost profits and such in civil courts. That seems most likely to me.
It's a neverending war;
1) youtube adds ads, ad-blockers are made
2) TH-cam does something to block ad-blockers, the ad-blockers get better
3) Repeat 2) until either youtube gives up or goes broke because ad-blockers will never go away
yes
Lol and the reason they go broke is cuz they're spending too much money to pay people to block the ad-blockers...
I am with Ads - Blocker
which ad blocker works atm?
@@Naturgewalt69 i use uBlock origin its working perfectly everywhere
it got even worse. Now, if you use Adblock, it straight up IGNORES it, and prevents you from skipping ads.
I’ll never forget the one time a bit back where I was trying to watch oversimplified, when an ad came up about some crappy anime comic, and my dad actually thought I was watching p*rn at the dinner table.
TH-cam literally almost got me grounded over a crappy ad
You've just rediscovered what it used to be like playing browser games. You could just be playing a tower defense game, but you'd get three "hot singles" ads in the borders around it.
That must have sucked trying to explain to your family about that. :(
That's pretty funny tho :y
@Chicken12Salad True, but I'm guessing this person here can look back and laugh at this particular incident
Why are you watching TH-cam at the dinner table
TH-cam is literally borderline unwatchable if you do not have an ad blocker an average 10 to 20 minute video will have 2 to 6 ads on it and they will all be unskippable literally dog shit
So they're pulling the same crap as Twitch?
I tried watching a 20 minute video with ads before, it's basically 40 minutes instead.
you are getting a library of millions of hours of content for free btw
when they complete their quest to block all ads they will suffer for their efforts. I won't be around except to laugh at them as they go the way of the pay phone.
@@soupofdoom4542 I wish nothing but the worst for you in life.
Ads playing when you pause is crazy💀
Yeah
Aren’t you the h1t1 fridge guy?
If ur broke
That's just diabolical,.
@@PistolArrow76poor hating like a callous piece
TH-cam is focused on ads but not on deleting nsfw bots. TH-cam FIX THE ACTUAL PROBLEMS
I promise myself that company’s with 15 sec unskippable ads to never use their products.
I haven’t experienced this personally but I’ve seen ads that are over an hour long, they’re getting fuckin ridiculous
Thankfully I’m freeloading off of my family’s yt premium so I don’t have to deal with any of this but that’s not an option for everyone
brother. i will visit a website once, and get ads for them for goddamn weeks. TH-cam has mastered the process of getting me to hate a brand for life by shoving it in my face endlessly.
Yeah, me getting TH-cam premium was definitely the best thing I did for companies. I keep a list of companies with unskippable ads to never interact with.
Correct. penquinz0 not a business person, but if he was he could ad that TH-cam fundamentally does not understand business, management, or marketing. It makes sense, it is an engineering based company that would never hire a professional manager to operate it. TH-cam hates *ALL* of it's customers: consumers, content creators, so contributors of all types. But the engineers there ALSO hate the advertisers, the ad-servers, and the ad blockers. It makes sense, engineers, in general, dislike all of humanity. One thing is sure, there is no business in the history of business that has sustained operations indefinitely not putting their customers first. Never has happened, never will. Note the downfall of all financed-owned retailers: JC Penney, Sears, K-mart, Home Depot, Lowes...all financed-owned restaurants in both fast food and middle restaurants. Burger King on the ropes, Mcdonalds on the rapid decline, Kenny Rogers and Big Boys gone, *dozens* of others in the past 15 years. IT based businesses holding on by a thread, often through collusion, Adobe, Microsoft, etc. Businesses that put their customers first all doing fine, Walmart, Amazon, Temu, Space X. The check TH-cam is collecting from the government's $29 billion spent on propaganda last must be huge to keep going this way. Regardless of the amount they are taking to shill themselves, they are not going to change. I removed all content from YT as soon as they ramped-up ads and started this ad-blocking nonsense. For me, the site is nearly entirely unusable, and certainly is without ad-block enabled. If they introduced an ad-free experience I would pay my proportional share...$5 per year. They are already getting free content. The arrogance and greed are obvious to everyone but them...because they don't care about their customers at all......
15 secs? out here living the good life.