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Today I was reminded how bad YouTube ads are (jlai.lu)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Tibert@jlai.lu to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I watched a Warframe (game) YouTube video on the Steam integrated browser, without beeing connected to my account and Holly s* it was horrible.

In a 14 minutes video, I got 5 ads. 1 (or more skippable once) at the beginning, 1 during the first half of the video, 2 during the second half, and 1 at the end.

All were skippable after 5 sec.

2 were close together at about 1 min interval during the second half of the video.

But that is not the only issue. 4 of those ads (not the last one at the end), were Israeli hate/war anti-hamas propaganda.

I consider these ads horrible and they should not be allowed in my opinion.

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[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The time and set duration for their ads is based on viewer habits, so they are basically banking that you are too lazy to skip it or are out of the room and they can still claim they ran the whole ad.

[–] yuknowhokat@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Recently in a 5 minute video an ad came up that showed it was an hour and 10 minutes long. There is no good reason for that garbage

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dude with kids cartoons it’s horrible. 5+ min ads disguised as cartoons for 2min videos. It’s absurd.

[–] th3dogcow@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you use the kids YouTube app then there are no ads. On tv, you can use the regular YouTube app to switch to your child’s account and then no more ads.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Good to know. I just run freetube these days lol