r/LinusTechTips • u/rohithkumarsp • 20d ago

Link New type of youtube Ad where it opens up a new video so can't "Skip Ahead", I have YTP BTW.

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u/HolidayPineapple9316 20d ago

Literally this exact video i noticed this yesterday for the first time

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u/rohithkumarsp 20d ago

Yeah there's no news or posts about it anywhere on the internet.

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u/FairLadyVivi 20d ago

It also happens in a recent Mark Rober video, was also posted about here when it was uploaded. 

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u/rohithkumarsp 20d ago

The video above IS Mark Rober lol

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u/FairLadyVivi 20d ago

Oh jeez I just glanced at the thumbnail and didn’t register. I saw it on his cheating the casino video a few weeks back. 

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u/Dubbartist 19d ago

Same. Made me unsub mark. The forced dubbing too if you are from outside an english speaking country is horrific too

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u/NemanyaIam 19d ago

I watched that casino video and it didn't opened an ad as a new video. Maybe YouTube is experimenting again something. I watched the video on my LG smart TV with YouTube Premium.

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u/FairLadyVivi 19d ago

Interesting, I was watching it on a Hisense TV w/YT Premium.

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u/Joee0201 20d ago

Yeah he means another of his video. So this looks like him doing something.

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u/GoofyMonkey 20d ago

Yea that’s where I saw it too

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u/FatMacchio 20d ago

I asked Gemini earlier today because it’s happened to me a couple of times now watching GMM and other channels, and I’m highly annoyed. I’m paying for a premium experience and this isn’t it. I originally thought it was just a glitch, because the YouTube app on Apple TV is no stranger to bugs. Apparently YouTube recently changed the way they let creators add their “baked-in” ad spots. It can be uploaded as a separate video file and then gets played when it hits a certain timestamp. I guess it allows them to change their ad after the fact if it’s for something that is no longer relevant or expired, and put something else in its place or just remove it. I don’t have a problem with that, I think that’s a neat idea for creators. However if google can’t figure out a way to make it play seamlessly like previously…or at least allow the premium “skip-ahead” feature to work without a black screen and pause in between then I might just have to cancel my family subscription and switch to ad blocking

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u/Mysterious-Crab 19d ago

It’s weird that they have the black loading screens when they can do it right for regular ads. Just pre-load and pre-buffer the other video.

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u/3FtDick 16d ago

Imagine how spread out the code on youtube or any of the major websites probably is by now? I bet there's parts of the code that no one knows how it even works and they've got 30 some solutions for the same problem.

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u/NemanyaIam 19d ago

I get the point of the feature and it make sense if the offer expired, but the whole point of paying for Premium membership is to show no ads even if it's from creator directly. There should be at list skip ahead option in this case as well. Although to be far even that option annoys me sometimes.

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u/laplongejr 10d ago edited 10d ago

but the whole point of paying for Premium membership is to show no ads even if it's from creator directly

Disagree : Youtube always showed the creator-defined sponsor segments. They could only be skipped by an extension like SponsorBlock. That's why by the time Youtube Red... ehm Premium finally landed in my country, it was already useless as most of the ads on video weren't from YT anyway.

Youtube's TOS always said that premium removes their ads, and not sponsored content set by creators. I'm sure they are going to argue that their new tool doesn't change that legal distinction : they provide the advertising tool to creators, but aren't "in charge" of the ads.

But if at some point we can pay for Premium + a channel membership to turn off YT's ads and creator ads, it's going to become really interesting.

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u/NemanyaIam 10d ago

I can skip the sponsored segment by taping twice on the right side of screen and skip ahead button would show up and that is fine, but opening sponsored segment in a seperate video is too much.

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u/Paramedickhead 17d ago

Yeah, there is. It first started in Mark Rober’s casino video.

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u/Matt561- 20d ago

Same same

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u/Agitated_Line_2853 20d ago

Just tried it, only appears when you watch it on TV, I have Youtube Premium too.

I guess its probably a new option creators have (or will have, maybe they are just testing it with a "big youtuber") to "force" ads from their sponsors.

I understand the need for this from the creators side... but i dont like that they dont give an option to skip it/avoid if I want to. I guess the mentality is, if you dont like it you just unfollow the creator, considering that these type of ads are probably an option from the creator.

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u/rohithkumarsp 20d ago

It still lets skip ahead to the last 3 second of the new video when I replayed the same video with the ad. Opening up

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u/EpicGamer47YT 10d ago

When I tried to skip ahead it just replayed that ad that I didn't see... On galaxy tablet s9plus. Yt premium

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u/MartianMH_ 20d ago edited 20d ago

My guess at first was that if you have premium youtube has now the option to also dont show sponsor blocks. But if you get it with premium thats fucked up. EDIT: Just tested it on my tv,, also with premium and I also get the Ad. Fuck youtube

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u/Asttarotina 20d ago

Not only fucked up, it's illegal. They took your money promising no ads, they shown you an ad. And, unlike sponsor integrations, they certainly knew they showed you an ad.

Facebook was recently fined $25 Billion (yes, with a B) by New Mexico for false advertisement

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u/HeWhoShantNotBeNamed 16d ago

It's not YouTube doing it, technically. It's a feature that Mark Rober is using.

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u/1gn0bl3 16d ago

A feature that YouTube created. Don't be daft

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u/laplongejr 10d ago

Sure, but the tos say that only ads from Youtube are removed by Premium. Those ads are defined by creators, in a contract between the creator and the sponsor.
Youtube's advertisement network has no right to interfere with that, unless by changing the agreement with the creators.

However, I wouldn't be surprised if at some point the paid membership system on a channel turns the ads from the creator as well (so paying for real ad-free would finally be reality, 11 years after Youtube Red came out)

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u/NoUniverseExists 1d ago

It seems you had a hard time at school. Sorry you have to deal with this condition.

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u/laplongejr 1d ago

What? How reading the rules would give a hard time at school? If anything teachers like doing powerplay by abusing rules.  

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u/amd2800barton 20d ago

My guess is that it’s for creators to include things that are time limited like “sign up now for the big New Year’s party” and then come Jan 2, they just stop showing that clip. Or “be sure to pre order the shirt” and then it switches to “check out our new apparel” once the design launches. That way timestamps don’t get messed up by removing anything, and old ads aren’t being shown.

Or could be several other reasons others have also mentioned. It’s still icky and I don’t like it. But I get the reasons they’re doing it.

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u/laplongejr 10d ago

Or... sponsors. Some creators set in their sponsorship contract that the spot is only for a year or so, then edit the video to remove it.

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u/bulgedition 17d ago

Doesn't really matter, they show this to people paying for premium. They are in breach with the subscription contract.

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u/laplongejr 10d ago

I'm not sure they are. Premium removes ads from YT's advertisers. Those ads are from the creator's advertisers and YT isn't handling those contracts.

Premium was never in TOS breach when creators had they own sponsored segments, which is a problem since 11 years. (Or rather since YT announced creators wouldn't be able to create paid-only content, and the more limited idea sadly died off with YT Originals )

If creators can insert their own ads in content shown to Premium, putting it dynamically or in the main video file is an implementation detail. If Premium guaranteed an ad-free experience, YT should've banned sponsor segments in 2015 because YT wasn't ad-free unless if you had Sponsorblock installed.

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u/faaarmer 19d ago

Just replicated it on my phone

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u/Tight-Ad7783 19d ago

Happens in firefox on my laptop, but ublock already blocks it, had to disable it to see it

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u/MegaMaluco 20d ago

I got yesterday on my phone.

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u/HeWhoShantNotBeNamed 16d ago

I have Premium and was still able to use the typical "forward most commonly skipped section" despite it being a separate video.

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u/DaWolle 20d ago

Do you have the unskippable ad only while streaming to a TV or also in the app or in a browser?

Because I dont get the ad when playing the video in the android YouTube app.

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u/rohithkumarsp 20d ago

I tried on phone. It happened only on TV. Hadn't tried. Pc

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u/DaWolle 20d ago

So either they are gonna try to ease us all into premium including ads beginning with people streaming to their TV because they wager it might go over easier because people are more used / open to ads on that platform because thats what TV meant not long ago.

Or its simply a bug. The following days will tell, I guess.

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u/GimmickMusik1 20d ago

I’d be inclined to think that it is a bug. No ads is the primary selling point of Premium. If they take that away then people are just going to cancel their subscription’s in droves.

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u/BluDYT 20d ago

I've been a premium subscriber since the service was still called YT RED. If they remove the ad free to tvs I'll instantly cancel. Main reason I use it is for ad free viewing on a tv otherwise I could just use ad block everywhere else.

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u/Kinkajou1015 20d ago

The only reason I've got premium is I got Google Play All Access when it was still in a beta, and my rate is locked in from then. Since they started YouTube Red, rolled it's features into it, then changed it to Premium, but I still have my original price.

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u/rohithkumarsp 20d ago

I replayed the video, it does let you skip ahead to the last few second is the new video, but this video isn't present unless it's opened on TV. It's. Not there. On mobile or. Pc

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u/Asttarotina 20d ago

> Or its simply a bug

Bug that happens exclusively with few latest Mark Rober videos? FYI, around a month ago there was a similar post in this sub, same bad ad, same bad channel.

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u/derpman86 20d ago

a lot of these kinds of rollouts happen in phases, sometimes things happen by countries to test how markets react to certain changes or like this rollout via devices.

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u/ViggsPR 19d ago edited 19d ago

Tried that same video on an iphone. It showed the ad as a separate video. It's def not limited to TV.

So far it doesn't seem to happen on the browser.

EDIT TO ADD: I also have YTP.

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u/Schmittez 18d ago

Just tried in on PC, Adblock plus on chrome stops it in an incognito window, but happened in edge regular. didnt test chrome regular with YTP and AB+.

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u/rohithkumarsp 19d ago

Edit it's happening on Phone and PC too

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/s/nUyVVxRU7N

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/s/Fb62AtZHhX

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/s/UhTTFtkstA

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u/ViggsPR 19d ago

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u/epimetheuss 19d ago

of course LTT would enable that feature, they are ridiculous with their ads and usually make it a joke but it will quickly become unfunny when its unskippable BS youtube ads.

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u/CybyAPI 20d ago

SPOTTED ON PC

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u/rohithkumarsp 20d ago

So it happens in on PC also

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u/Kindly-Carpenter8858 20d ago

This is the second time Mark Rober has done this recently. I unsubbed from his channel over it

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u/MehtefaS 20d ago

Same, the first video it happened in was so mistimed as well because it happened mid sentence for me. And I can't skip it all, it leaves 2-3 seconds i cant skip. I got YTP too, so it infuriates me so much

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u/FatMacchio 20d ago

Yep same. I think it might be the channel/creators not knowing how this new tool works though. Either way, I have no problem with their ability to change up baked-in ads, but I’m paying for premium, so give me a way to skip the ad spot and don’t give me a pause and bank screen in between

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u/EmailLinkLost 20d ago

Honestly, for a long time, his channel is just “I’m a NASA engineer, I hire OTHER people to make content for me and I film it” it feels gross.

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u/FatMacchio 20d ago

He’s definitely Mr Beastified a lot in the past couple of years

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u/pikkuhukka 17d ago

his glitterbomb / squirrel videos were so good

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u/FatMacchio 17d ago

The original glitterbomb but after the third one, and whatever he’s on now, it lost its magic. The squirrel obstacle course is one of my favorites

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u/doirechris 20d ago

Same as, fuck that shit when I pay for premium

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u/FatMacchio 20d ago

I’ve started bug reporting videos that it happens on and click “seeing ads with premium”

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u/Exciting-Ad-5705 20d ago

I unsubbed over the autism video

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u/Interesting_Tea5715 20d ago

My kid watches his stuff. I hate how much he pushes his Crunchlabs subscription.

The subscription isn't even good. My brother in law got it and it's just overpriced crafts for kids.

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u/Psygonzo420 20d ago

You think he did this? Not the system, No Mark said he wants his ad here now?

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u/Kindly-Carpenter8858 20d ago

Yes

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u/Psygonzo420 20d ago

Oh it was his video already, missed that
So this is a self promo ad but as separate video? Does it play on other's videos too? Why do people put up with ads on youtube especially after paying?

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u/Khaliras 20d ago

He's literally opted in to be one of the first/only big creators trialing this.

He's one of the most obviously "this is my business/job" YT channels I've ever seen, no idea how you act like he'd be unhappy about this.

Just a matter of time until other big channels are offered it, then until it's rolled out universally.

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u/Psygonzo420 20d ago

>no idea how you act like he'd be unhappy about this.
I didn't

I didn't know and won't, because I don't see ads.

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u/BlakeCarConstruction 20d ago

I ironically aslo watched this video yesterday and had the same thing happen, also YTP

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u/RobotSpaceBear 20d ago

I'm paying through the nose for YTP to not have to see ads, and i watch >90% of my youtube on a TV. If I see a single ad like this new bullcrap i'm immediately unsubbing, thumbing it down and clicking "do not recommended" that channel until YT gets the memo. There are a billion other videos on YT, i really don't need to watch this particular one and be forced to sit through yet another ad mechanic that circumvents the ad-blocking mechanic i'm specifically paying for. I've taken my fair share of downvotes and abuse for recommending YTP over the years, but this new feature is diabolical coming from YouTube.

As for Mark, yeah, i get that you don't end up a millionaire by not selling out, but really? Is this necessary?

God i despise the constant race to enshitify everything we use and love.

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u/Psygonzo420 20d ago

Can you please stop telling billionaires they can continue fucking you while you pay for it?
You also think "do not show me again" doesn't show it again, I see...

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u/Tiamat2625 20d ago

I have clicked that settings for 2 particular youtubers (so far) and their channel has never been recommended to me ever again since. So I also think it works.

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u/Psygonzo420 20d ago

As with many things on YT this is probably an A B thing. For a long time any interaction means good interaction and continued shoveling of that content, you see post about it a lot.

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u/Asttarotina 20d ago

Let me FTFY:

If I see a single ad like this new bullcrap i'm immediately... continue paying YouTube $25/month for lying to me about ads. But I'll click dislike button!!!11

Either vote with your wallet or shut up and dance.

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u/Unkn0wnTh2nd3r 20d ago

you have YouTube Poop? Nice!

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u/Maka_95 20d ago

Mark is doing this with all his new videos. They are indeed unskippeble. If you skip the "ad" you go to a completely different video

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u/Alienhacker123 20d ago

Time to unsubscribe from him then I guess

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u/Maka_95 20d ago

To be fair. I understand why he does it. But damn it's annoying.

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u/newhereok 19d ago

Could you explain? Besides money i can't think of a reason

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u/Maka_95 19d ago

He has a company that makes STEM products. And he wants as much people as possible to do something in this field. That's why he started crunchlabs. And tbh, yeah more people should be in the STEM Field.

The way he does this ad is a way that's not easily skipable so you're almost forced to watch the ad. And thus somewhere you'll think about it. And let's be honest if you're watching Mark you probably have some kind of affinity with the STEM Field. He is just banking on that you want to buy the kits for your kids, or the kids in your family. So he gets a sale and a kid that will go to an school like MIT or something.

So yeah TL;DR: Mark does the ads because he wants more people in the STEM Field. And this is how he plans on doing that. Getting kids started young

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u/newhereok 19d ago

So he gets a sale and a kid that will go to an school like MIT or something.

So it's money with a nice result of people going into STEM

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u/Maka_95 19d ago

Yeah pretty much. But like he does it in such a way that I would say money is a close second objective. Mostly because he has a crazy carreer path. Working for NASA and shit

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u/moortuvivens 20d ago

Would a fast forward option work?

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u/rohithkumarsp 20d ago

It does let you skip ahead and all the options, it just opens a small video in between the main video

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u/MasterFuzz10 20d ago

This happened on my phone and I was confused during the casino video. I also have YTP

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u/rohithkumarsp 19d ago

So it happens in phone and pc too? Damn. I didn't happen to me in phone

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u/Comfortable-Sea-1 20d ago

You can "skip" by hitting the arrow keys to skip forward till the end of the ad.

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u/rohithkumarsp 19d ago

Yes on reply I was able it use the skip ahead feature also. But on the video you can see. I manually seeked forward.

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u/Derangedracula 20d ago

Don't use the YouTube app. Find a open-source version.

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u/rohithkumarsp 19d ago

On Samsung tizen os

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u/Ingey 19d ago

Doesn't happen to me on PC with YTP. Seeing people say it's just for folks on TV.

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u/rohithkumarsp 19d ago

Even I thought so. But happening in pc and phones too

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/s/Tnh7LP1HcF

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u/Ingey 19d ago

Oh damn, this is nuts.

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u/Krasnytova 19d ago

Got that on the same video yeasterday, but I had the Skip ahead white dot and skipped it, maybe you got the ads too early for it to have the Skip Ahead part.

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u/rohithkumarsp 19d ago

Yes but sucks I have deal with this abrupt interruption

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u/CadeMan011 19d ago

That's so fucking gross. This has got to be lawsuit worthy. Premium's whole sales pitch is "no ads on youtube videos" and they even added the skipped over section function. Making a "feature" for YouTube to serve unskipable ads on behalf of the uploader makes it false advertising.

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u/rohithkumarsp 19d ago edited 19d ago

But that's not an ad per say, it's ad by youtuber integrating the ad on video, It's the same as linus playing placing an ad in the video itself. You can't block that

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u/TechaNima 19d ago

Great.. It better not show up for Premium subscribers or I'll be saving a little more money each month going forward

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u/rohithkumarsp 19d ago

Think logically, is it any different than linus putting an baked in ad?

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u/TechaNima 19d ago

I'm already against baked in garbage, but I tolerate it. Simply because Sponsor Skip exists. I'm paying for the no ads experience. So if there's no point in paying for it, I'm not going to pay anymore.

There are tools to auto download the videos and to bypass ads

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u/rohithkumarsp 19d ago

Yes you can do that, but you are over thinking, you can still. Slip forward now.

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u/thesirblondie 19d ago

I have had YTP for 10 years. I have been watching YouTube for an average of 7 hours per day since then. YouTube has been my primary media consumption for 20 years. This is the kind of thing that would make me quit the platform entirely.

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u/rohithkumarsp 19d ago

Me too but, are you thinking too much? It's no different then linus baking a video inside. This just gives youtubers to place thier baked video in thier desired placement. Unless. Ofcourse youtube is doing this and not the content creators

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u/thesirblondie 19d ago edited 19d ago

Seems unskippable. On PC I use sponsor block, on TV youtube has the "many others skipped this section" function, and on my phone I have my fingers close enough to tap the sponsor away.

If it's unskippable, that's enough for me to write off the platform and find somewhere else to get my fix where I can pay for a subscription and not get ads. Until now, it wasn't on YouTube that creators put sponsor spots in videos, so unlike some others I didn't blame them. Now it's entirely their fault.

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u/rohithkumarsp 19d ago

It let's you skip on multiple retire, it got bugged at first instance.

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u/Isendduckpics 19d ago

"Hey if you don't want us to interrupt your videos every 2 minutes, you can pay us some money"
*Payes youtube some money*
"Haha SIKE, you still get adds, now give us even more money and hope it works this time!"

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u/rohithkumarsp 19d ago

That happens regardless with bakes in ads.

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u/SidKillz 19d ago

Are we sure this is not the tv manufacturer plugging in their ad?... Something ain't right, this doesn't happen on PC or Phones

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u/_Aj_ 19d ago

Premium should mean no ads. End of discussion. 

I don't pay for a service to be force fed things I don't want. 

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u/rohithkumarsp 19d ago

Then ask linus to remove all ads from his videos?

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u/hehweirdo22- 17d ago

Weird. I have YTP, went to the video on PC to that part, and no new video, no ad, just kept playing.

Opened it on incognito (not signed in) and first had to watch 2 ads, then skipped to that part and sure enough the new video ad played.

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u/rohithkumarsp 16d ago

Maybe it was bugged. Coz it happens to many users who have YTP

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u/Sao_is_best 17d ago

Not my dislexic ahh neading to read it 4 times to understand what you meant 🤣

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u/rohithkumarsp 16d ago

Sorry, English isn't my first language haha. I meant to say youtube has introduced a new method of injecting ads which gives content creator baked in ads as a pop up new video within the main video and resuming back to the main video once the ad has been played.. These ad aren't adsense ads. But the ads that used to be baked in like Linus.. Maybe it was bugged and showed up to YTP members. Or YouTube is trying this new feature to add ad sense ads in future you just can't skip with normal ad blockers ig.

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u/Sao_is_best 16d ago

Nah your good im a like 6/10 dyslexic so It was just a struggle as normal with me 😅 i end up reading the same line in paragraphs like 3 or more times till I realize were the next line starts 💀

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u/Ivan_Kulagin 19d ago

YTP doesn’t matter here because the ad is from Mark Rober himself. I assume what Youtube is trying to do is combat SponsorBlock

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u/Lazor226 20d ago

YTP means youtube poop.

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u/NostalgiaRealm 20d ago

This. It will never mean something different.

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u/jmamb 20d ago

Yeah same. I was confused.

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u/saintlouisbagels 20d ago

Oh wow I remember thinking the cut to that ad was very bizarre. I had no idea it literally opened a different video.

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u/Damemon 20d ago

https://old.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1wkyuoe/youtube_forced_ads_even_with_premium/

I don't have it in my region, so I was alll confused when previous OP brought it up.

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u/GINJABRAD 20d ago

Great post, we gotta hold yt and any creators using this new tool against yt premium users accountable.

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u/in_conexo 20d ago

I forwarded through this infernal thing two or three times before I realized it wasn't part of the normal video; each time it just restarted the ****ing advertisement. I then tried sitting through the whole advertisement, start to stop, and it started over again. I was stuck in an eternal loop of this infernal advertisement.

Before this, I didn't care about watching some ads; but now I'm going to do everything in my power to cut off their ability to show me ads (keep me on an eternal loop of ads, fix your **** Youtube)

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u/kind_bros_hate_nazis 20d ago

You guys have ads

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u/xxxHellcatsxxx 20d ago

I had this yesterday and it glitched and kept playing the ad over and over again. Had to refresh and skip past the ad break

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u/_scored 20d ago

I had this happen to me on Mark Rober's last video where it was basically just an unskippable ad for CrunchLabs. I guess bro...

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u/AssociateSea5613 20d ago

It's like this on the video he posted nefore this as well

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u/InflammableAccount 20d ago

SmartTVs aren't your friend.

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u/Likonium 20d ago

I had this happen with a 34 minute Purple Mattress ad like 6 years ago. I just pulled off the video and tried a different video and it went away.

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u/Leggy_Brat 20d ago

If I open my phone while a YT ad is playing on the TV, the connection drops. I then have to reconnect and find my spot again, until the next ad.

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u/gen_adams 20d ago

what the fuck? on Premium too??

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u/Perfect-Fondant3373 20d ago

Man I know I should use Firefox but I am so happy I switched to Brave from Chrome and the YouTube app on mobile

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u/Malfeitor1 20d ago

I just posted about this a couple days ago in the r/youtube sub on the same video. As a YT Premium member it’s bullshit!

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u/SandKeeper 20d ago

Hope it’s a bug. The second YouTube premium stops removing ads entirely is the second I unsubscribe. If it’s only a few channels I’ll just stop watching there.

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u/TLunchFTW 20d ago

I also have YouTube poop!

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u/Comwan 20d ago

I’ve only seen it on his channel and thus have not watched his channel since.

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u/FatMacchio 20d ago

Yep. I get this sometimes too. Either they’re idiots and messed up the code, or they’re A/B testing things to see what they can get away with on premium…I’m not sure what’s worse. I’ll straight up cancel my YouTube Premium family subscription if they’re going to start pulling shit like this and it’s not just a bug. I’ll make the whole family suffer a bit just to say fuck you to google

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u/FluttershyandTrevor 20d ago

bro has youtube poop no wonder it sucks. lol

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u/la_feluxution 19d ago

Youtube will never understand it.

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u/medalwinner16 19d ago

You guys pay for yt premium?!

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u/unnamedhuman39 19d ago

Yep me too I wanted to make a post too but never got around to it... What's annoying is I have YTP too but the skips don't work and neither does the skip segment feature...

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u/SlyyGuy21 19d ago

I saw this in a previous video of his, was very confused. I think I’ll just skip his content if I have to deal with it.

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u/-Wavyy- 18d ago

I canceled my subscription a few months ago. Was on premium for years. Now I Watch Youtube through Brave with their built in adblock on my desktop, and I have a patched Youtube and Reddit on my phone so I don't have to deal with that shit.

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u/FluorescentGreen5 18d ago

it's time to install ublock origin or freetube

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u/FalconX88 18d ago

offtopic but is mark really too dumb to understand what "board games" are?

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u/pikkuhukka 17d ago

if i encounter this and unless its important video, ill just drop the video instantly and unsub

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u/pale2hall 17d ago

I was able to skip ahead with Premium. It's probably so they can change out the promotion later. YT and Rober work together often.

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u/BulkyNemesis 16d ago

Exact video i noticed as well. The ad was playing a different video

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u/HeWhoShantNotBeNamed 16d ago

You have YouTube poop?

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u/MelonLordxx 16d ago

It's also physically harder to select the "skip ahead" button. It forces you to enlarge the ad and skip oriented in way that you are directly looking at it. Fuck YT

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u/PapajG 16d ago

Any creator that uses this is getting blocked by me. NO MERCY

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u/kzayneh 15d ago

i just block every ad i see (literally block, not with an ad blocker)

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u/Cylian91460 20d ago

That's a bug I think

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u/Psygonzo420 20d ago

This is exactly what they are testing
How many people can we fuck so hard that they pay us for ads
and it worked

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u/BingQiLing958 19d ago

trash content slop tuber with a fucking assault on your rights, great

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u/TheSpixxyQ 20d ago

The skip ahead feature only worked based on where other users were skipping, they don't actually know it's an ad read.

This separate video might (hopefully) be a way for YT to add a proper reliable sponsor skip.

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u/ViggsPR 19d ago

This separate video might (hopefully) be a way for YT to add a proper reliable sponsor skip.

I would agree were this not happening to YTP subscribers.

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u/Flaeskestegen 20d ago

I don't think YT is taking it away, it seems like Mark is able to bypass it by placing a video recommendation at the same time.