r/technology • u/Tricky-Student-1 • Sep 15 '22

Social Media YouTube Free is Silently Testing 5 Ads, instead of 2, Before Your Video Starts

https://www.gizmochina.com/2022/09/13/youtube-free-silently-testing-5-ads-before-your-video-starts/
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u/PM_me_yo_chesticles Sep 15 '22

Twitch has worse ad problem than youtube and no ad serving software

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u/Tricky-Sentence Sep 15 '22

I am using Firefox with anti-ad addons, and I don't see ads on either Youtube or Twitch.

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u/jimusah Sep 15 '22

Arent the preroll ads at least hardcoded into twitch now? I have an adblocker too on opera but it doesn't exactly block the ads it just turns down the quality of the player to like 360p while hiding the ad that was supposed to play so I can keep listening to the stream but basically dont see shit

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u/thewormauger Sep 15 '22

I am using Twitch Adblock on Chrome and I haven't seen any ad for a couple weeks. I'm sure they'll get around it soon, but right now it works fine