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by dylan604
976 days ago
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i can almost nod my head in acceptance for a :30 ad before a new piece of content. at :45, i'm starting to get annoyed. at :60, i'm wondering if this is really worth it. then, youtube steps up to the plate, points to the fences, and serves up a 2minute30second (i've seen longer) short film on some clearly fake as fuck scam type of 4am paid programming type of crap. on top of serving some mind bendingly annoying long ad break, they don't even attempt to prevent serving clearly malicious ads. if you're going to be heartless and force ads, don't be soulless and at least vet the ads from obvious scams. |
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I once got an ad on one of their videos for a 45 minute long video of an air crash investigation from a copycat channel narrated by someone with a very similar voice. I got about 10 minutes in before thinking "wow, this is a pretty weak episode from this channel" before noticing what was going on.
(I don't mean to imply all air crash investigation style channels are copying this one. But that video was a straight copy of their style, narrative order, and even voice and speaking style).
Like Already__Taken says, if you go a while without skipping ads, youtube seems to intentionally show you longer and longer ads.
I have premium now, and while I enjoy it, I really feel like I got bullied into subscribing. If all the ads breaks were 60 seconds total or less I would have been fine staying a free user. But they punish me for not diligently having my finger ready to press "skip".