• Fangslash@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There used to be a trick where you can skip ads in youtube app by pretending to report it. i’ve used that to skip the 2x30s unskippable ads over the years, but that was patched recently.

    So instead of occasionally watching ads while scrolling through comments, I’ve now opt to watch youtube in browser with UblockOrigin. And good luck to google for playing catch-22 with adblockers.

    Shame that I used to have youtube in my adblock whitelist

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, the unskippable ads are just maddening. Within the first 5 seconds I should either know what the product is, and my interest is established or not, or I’m hooked enough to watch the full ad. When I see the ad marked as unskippable, I’m automatically less receptive to the ad, it’s demanding more than it’s fair time for my consideration, so I don’t want to even think about it.

      One particularly maddening one was an ad that was 30 seconds, unskippable, and the theme was “our ad is so short, you don’t even miss the ability to skip it!” If it didn’t piss me off before, that really pushed me over the edge.