Key Takeaways

  • YouTube ad segments can be annoying but have a Skip option available after a few seconds.

  • Users have noticed a change in the Skip button’s display, potentially leading to confusion.

  • The absence of a countdown timer in the Skip button’s usual spot seems to be intentional.

  • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
    39·
    1 month ago

    It’s funny how I’ve learned I hate ads more than I want to watch the content I’m sometimes and I end up just instantly closing the video if an ad starts.

    But that of course is only if I screw up and I’m not using ad blockers.

    • rammer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      I have witnessed this behaviour. A person opened a video in the Android YouTube app and immediately closed it when an ad started playing. Then opened the same video again, closed it, because ads. Opened it a third time and then let it play without ads.

      • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        30 days ago

        Most people don’t care or they care but not enough to do anything.

      • Sabata@ani.socialEnglish
        1·
        30 days ago

        I’ll do this if a website has an inconvenient pop up asking for email, or the cookie consent popup is too big to ignore. I just don’t bother going back. I’m not sicking around to navigate around dark pattern bullshit like that.

    • Auster@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      Also great for finding channels in alternative services, and even more so since Google breaks Youtube’s compatibility to 3rd party tools every once in a while.

    • red@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      30 days ago

      no age restricted video is huge no, so I’ll still stick to revanced

  • Sudo Sodium @lemdro.idEnglish
    9·
    30 days ago

    YouTube doesn’t show ads in my country but I still prefer not to use the official app because it sounds “heavy” to me

      • Sudo Sodium @lemdro.idEnglish
        5·
        1 month ago

        They probably make money from sharing my data with 3rd parties , though it’s not as benefitical as the data of someone in other countries I live in Syria

    • limerod@reddthat.comOPMEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      The biggest insult Youtube could get. A person refusing to use it even when it had zero ads because it was heavy.

      But, yes I agree Youtube mobile app is inefficient and reloads losing my place. Unfortunately, I have the same issue with grayjay making even that one a non-starter.

  • infinitevalence@discuss.onlineEnglish
    5·
    1 month ago

    Before when the countdown timer showed the duration of ad’s I would let anything that was 2 ads collectively less than 1m play all the way through. Anything longer than 30 seconds, even 31 seconds was an instant skip. Now that the countdown timer is gone, I assume every ad is longer and skip all of them.

  • Sas [she/her]@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 month ago

    The website interface on mobile works well enough and on mobile Firefox you can install ublock origin. Made me uninstall a bunch of apps and use their web version instead.