YouTube will have fewer ad breaks on TV — but the ads are getting longer
YouTube will have fewer ad breaks on TV — but the ads are getting longer
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YouTube will have fewer ad breaks on TV — but the ads are getting longer
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so, what? 4-5 minutes instead of 2? yea, that'll keep people watching.....
something else
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The problem is: what else?
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Pirated and adblocked content
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Still YouTube but with an adblocker
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Lots of things?
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🏴☠️
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You're welcome: https://github.com/yuliskov/smarttube
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Can vouch. This, revanced and ublock on all my different devices and I haven't seen an ad in years
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Now I just need a Roku version.
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I use SmartTube on my Android TV and it hasn't run into any issues so far. If you can install 3rd party apps you might want to give it a try
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Yep I have it too. For now it works flawlessly. Hopefully it doesn't take much from Google's userbase and they just leave it alone lol.
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Google uses the same domain name, pi-hole can't block that.
Source: current pi-hole user.
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Pihole only works when ads come from a third party add provider. It cannot tell the difference between YouTube videos and ads.
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Smart tube is amazing.
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That's odd... on my TV there are no youtube ads, and no sponsor messages.
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Not for me, 🚫ads + 🏴☠️
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YouTube is fully enshitified. Useless app.
I open the vanilla app on someone else's computer the other day. Not logged in, in private browser mode, and the algorithm was immediately suggesting clips from Fox News and one of those loser Ben Shapiro types.
Even trying to find videos now. The search results seem to be clogged up of junk. Used to use it all the time to find a 30 second video for how to do some procedure or something. Now every single video is 10 minutes long and it's some idiot talking for 9 minutes about something unrelated and somewhere in the video buried between bullshit is 1 minute of useful content.
Came to YouTube because it was faster and easier than reading the manual but that's just not the case anymore.
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The Monkey's Paw has curled.
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I wish there was a way to stop ads on Roku. I'd rather watch on my TV, but my phone doesn't have ads, so I usually use it.
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There's this: https://github.com/iBicha/playlet
But I haven't quite figured out how to use it yet.
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I know of SmartTube for android TVs, but has anyone found a solution for TVs running Tizen?
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Yes, Tizen TVs have HDMI ports where you can plugin an android powered device.
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The availability of Tizen apps is abysmal
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I looked around a year ago and I couldn't seem to find anything. People just don't seem to develop for Tizen. I ended up buying Google TV and sideloading everything I needed.
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You can pay for premium, I know everyone around here gets mad about that. But I like content creators getting paid myself, and I hate ads. So it works for me.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
That’s because YouTube is making ads on TVs appear less frequently, but in exchange, you’ll have to sit through longer commercials.
YouTube started testing longer but less frequent ad breaks in September, and now they’re launching across all TVs.
The change means you’ll see an updated countdown timer in the bottom-right corner of your screen that will now show how long you have left until the entire ad break ends or when you can skip.
Just like on mobile and the web, you’ll now see ads in between Shorts that you can skip through using your remote.
While I can’t say I’m too happy that I’ll get ads in between Shorts on TVs, I am kind of glad about the change to ad breaks on regular videos, as I hopefully won’t get as many small interruptions while I’m watching two-hourlong deep dives.
YouTube has had a major focus on ads and getting people to watch them this year.
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I installed newpipe and didn't look back.
The ads were too obnoxious and frequent.
I understand they have to make money somewhere, but at some point you degrade the product too far. This is what they did.
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There are no ads.
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This community is obsessed with YouTube ads lol
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To clarify, not trying to advocate for ads of whatever idc, just wish I didn't see a dozen posts a day about YouTube Ads
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We've gone full circle
You can at least pay (quite a lot less than a cable subscription) to remove them. It beats paying $80 a month for the great privilege of spending 30% of the time watching ads.
For now, of course.
My Adblocker is free
Soon you’ll pay AND watch ads. Maybe there will be a free tier with 5 minute ad breaks, and paid tier with 1 minute ad breaks.
Tbh paying a package deal isn't actually the worst thing. I get netflix, sky sports, BT sports, movies, all channels, 1gb broadband and 1 unlimited data SIM. £100 pm.
Yes it's expensive but it's £55 for 1gb broadband anyway. They have a stranglehold over football/soccer that it's hard to get away from. Yes you can pirate the stream but it's not the same.
This has fuck all to do with YT but generally getting packages individually isn't cheaper sometimes.
I certainly prefer fewer and longer ad breaks, over several short ones, but this still sucks.
Why prefer any of it...block em all and tell corporations to pound sand.
Don't negotiate with terrorists.
No, full circle would be more and longer ads.
Anyway, I’m a Smart Tube User :)