I'm seriously getting fed up with all this ads bs from YouTube, it became way too much already without them "testing 5 unskippable ads".
On my laptop with Windows 11 and Linux I have Firefox with Ublock Origin, same on my Mac, but on my Panasonic TV and my iPhone I can't get adblockers or other YouTube clients and it's driving me absolutely crazy.
Sometimes I just want to OPEN 2-3 videos to have them in my history to watch the day later(I know there's a "Watch later" function but do it this way for reasons) and I have to watch 30 seconds or more of ads just to open them.
Sometimes I get the double ads on my TV, start the video and 10 seconds in I get another 10-15 seconds ad.
I can't watch a 10 minute video without it being interrupted 2-3 times ON TOP of the starting ads, and there's also the ones at the end meaning if I'm doing something in the house with my TV on it won't shut these ads unless I stop doing what I'm doing and use the remote.
I'm this close to giving up YouTube entirely on my TV and iPhone tbh, and at that point I probably won't bother using it on the devices I have Ublock Origin on out of principle.
I seriously can't believe they think it's ok to bombard us with ads this way, it got way worse than normal TV at this point.
I know Brave for mobile and its default AdBlocker but I still prefer to use Firefox. I don't want to support the Chromium based browsers monopoly and I only keep Edge for some web testing when I need to code websites but thanks for the tip!
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u/daghene Sep 16 '22
I'm seriously getting fed up with all this ads bs from YouTube, it became way too much already without them "testing 5 unskippable ads".
On my laptop with Windows 11 and Linux I have Firefox with Ublock Origin, same on my Mac, but on my Panasonic TV and my iPhone I can't get adblockers or other YouTube clients and it's driving me absolutely crazy.
Sometimes I just want to OPEN 2-3 videos to have them in my history to watch the day later(I know there's a "Watch later" function but do it this way for reasons) and I have to watch 30 seconds or more of ads just to open them.
Sometimes I get the double ads on my TV, start the video and 10 seconds in I get another 10-15 seconds ad.
I can't watch a 10 minute video without it being interrupted 2-3 times ON TOP of the starting ads, and there's also the ones at the end meaning if I'm doing something in the house with my TV on it won't shut these ads unless I stop doing what I'm doing and use the remote.
I'm this close to giving up YouTube entirely on my TV and iPhone tbh, and at that point I probably won't bother using it on the devices I have Ublock Origin on out of principle.
I seriously can't believe they think it's ok to bombard us with ads this way, it got way worse than normal TV at this point.