temp1234 wrote:
YouTube has sneakily increased the duration of some ads to 16 seconds, hoping that people will mix it up with the 6-sec ads. Insulting to think that viewers are that stupid. I guess it's about time to do better things than wasting time on YouTube.
I recently started using an YouTube adblocker extension for Firefox because YouTube started playing at least one ad before every single video, even if it's just a three minute music vid. Then when the vid ends YouTube plays at least one more ad before auto playing the next 3 minute music vid. If I'm listening to a whole album that was put up as one 30 minute vid, YouTube plays at least one ad in the middle of it. Their ads are usually advertising membership for YouTube premium so you can suposeidly go ad free. I bet lots of uploaders are losing views these days because people quit watching YouTube due to the numerious ads & plenty of people are majorly finachially struggling right now & can not afford to go ad free.
My girlfriend bought a Paramount Plus membership because they claimed to be ad free but after a bit they started showing one ad on the paid memberships before playing shows that's for other Paramount Plus shows. I suspect they'll start playing more ads like that on their paid ad free memerships soon. I bet YouTube already does $hit like this for their ad free memberships. Showing ads for other shows before playing shows is NOT ad free like they claim those paid memberships are. Companies need to get in trouble for intentionally lying to mislead consumers into buying.
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