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    Will you be forced to watch ads on YouTube? There may be a big change regarding the Skip button

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    1. 0wmeHjyogG on

      Recently my YouTube app has done away with the timer – so I don’t know how long the ads will run or how many.

      This has led to me using Chrome on my desktop more, where I have ad blocking scripts running that prevent 100% of ads.

      So YouTube has inconvenienced me, and changed my behavior from “skips ads as soon as possible” to “blocks ads completely”.

      Good job YouTube 🙄

    2. PapaGilbatron on

      If adverts are forced then I won’t be watching Youtube at all. The service is awful enough at present. After all, adverts are paid for by the consumer at the point of sale thus increasing product prices in the first place. Oh, the irony.

    4. Bman1465 on

      What skip button? I haven’t seen one in months, all I get are three unskippable ads in a row now

    6. CatLillian on

      If this is how YouTube wants to behave they need to start being much stricter on their damn ads they allow. Stop allowing blatant scam ads, stop allowing ads that are longer than the video you’re watching.

      I can’t engage with your ads in good faith when they don’t engage with me in good faith. I don’t want ads at all and maybe 1 in 1000 ads has ever slightly swayed me on a product but when ads are not well regulated I tune them ALL out.

    8. vulgoguerra on

      “viewers can engage more deeply with the ad through a cleaner experience.”

      I don’t want to engage with the ads, I don’t even want to see them. If companies could put ads in our dreams they would.

      Edit: I didn’t realize how many ads apologists would be on this thread talking about if I don’t want to see ads I should pay for the service. In which case they must also agree that if I am paying for cable then there should be no ads, since I am paying for the service. Hulu should have no ads, since I am paying for the service, D+ should have no ads, since I am paying for the service. Prime video should have no ads, since I am paying for the service. Or is that different?

    11. hendricha on

      I’ve been telling you ppl to use Firefox with an adblocker since 2005. I’m begging. Pretty please.

    14. Old-Bridge-5918 on

      I haven’t used YouTube main video just reels, which also only when i am in bathroom during poop time. Yeah Google is being way too greedy now!
      The way they fucked over general people in Chromium browser, I will stick to other social media platform to watch some funny videos now.

    15. CammKelly on

      This might just be the worst written article I’ve ever read. Down voted the OP for posting such trash.