[madiathomas]

I skip all YouTube adverts that are longer than 15 seconds and never click on any advert when searching. I am probably considered "commercially unviable", even though a company I own 100%, pays Google thousands of dollars every year to use Google Suite and Google Cloud Engine. I don't see a reason for my personal account to be commercially viable.

[varelaz]

Google uses CPM or even kind of vCPM model for videos mostly AFAIK, so if you see more than 5 seconds of the ad, advertisers will pay for it.

[PuffinBlue]

Pretty sure it's 30 seconds before it's counted as an add view. Those un-skippable under 30 seconds are always paid.

[madiathomas]

When I encounter an unskippable advert, I refresh the browser or report it as inapprporiate. I don't want to be forced to watch an advert.

[madiathomas]

Then I am a profitable user then.

[Maxion]

Keep in mind that not all advertisement is made with the intent of the ad watcher clicking the ad and purchasing a product immediately. The larger brands especially do a lot of share of mind advertising where the goal is simply to make you aware of / remind you of the brand.

[madiathomas]

Then they must make their adverts smaller. 5-10 seconds is enough to remind me there is a soft drink brand called Coca-Cola.

[vkizl]

I haven't watched an ad on youtube in like ten years. They are probably very upset at me.

[madiathomas]

Unfortunately I watch YouTube on a smart TV. I have no way of blocking their adverts. I can only wait for skip button and skip.

[lberk]

Would something like pihole not work in this case?

[madiathomas]

Let me try that and see how it goes. Let me go and install it.

[lavios]

Pihole does not block YouTube Ads. You can use Smart Youtube TV to watch ad free YouTube on your TV.

https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartYouTubeTV

[madiathomas]

Thank you lavios. I will install it later.