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
    13·
    6 hours 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.

    • Auster@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      9 hours 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.

  • infinitevalence@discuss.onlineEnglish
    5·
    7 hours 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.

  • Wait A Minute@lemdro.idEnglish
    7·
    8 hours ago

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

    • limerod@reddthat.comOPMEnglish
      5·
      6 hours 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.

      • Wait A Minute@lemdro.idEnglish
        1·
        2 hours 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