YouTube's Adblock War Just Got Way Worse...
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- Опубликовано: 13 июн 2024
- Hello guys and gals, it's me Mutahar again! This time we take a look at RUclips's war with various extensions has gotten to the point where server based changes might be on the way. This may effect even extensions beyond in regards to timestamping tools like Sponsorblock, How? Let's find out! Thanks for watching!
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Real ones remember the days where ad points were actually marked on the video scroll line.
i would be ok with mandatory ads injected and unskpable if they werent half the time for spyware or scams
Real ones remember when youtube didn't even have ads. When they were first implemented you could hit F5 a few times to refresh the page until the ad didn't play.
@@StevenHawkingsSpitrag you've just activated some really deep memories in my head. i was like 6 around that time (not entirely sure), but i do remember that trick
@@StevenHawkingsSpitrag Or when it was just a tiny lil popup at the bottom / on the side that you could close out of
Real ones remember when there was no RUclips
Google has never paid me a dime for my data they're selling, I see ad block on YT as an even trade off
RUclips accepted the terms of use when I signed up to their platform that 80% of all data-sale earnings made off my data go to my pocket.
;)
@@Rexhunterjhow?
I think you have a misunderstanding about how business works. The company doesn't pay the customer, it's the other way around.
@@PvtAnonymous We aren't the customers. We are the product.
@@PvtAnonymous Yes but that's only if the company is selling that customer the product. Google is instead taking our data (the product), and selling it to other people, so we should be inclined to a fair balance.
I feel like the right to refuse an advertisement should be a human right
Where is the like x10000 button
I have this thought at least once a day, cheers
I know right? People talk about adblock and advertising a lot but it's so rare that anyone talks about the inherent immorality of advertising. If it succeeds, a person who was likely perfectly happy and functional loses money (which unfortunately is essentially equivalent to life) and gains something they literally don't need, or makes them any happier or more functional. If it fails, you've just wasted everyone's time.
RUclips set out to make more money. Now if this is true, no company will make money 😂
There are ads around us but it's not constant like RUclips's. I see an ad like someone drinking Coca Cola, they don't have a fricken musical number, plus I don't have to watch them drink soda for 30s. I can look away and see another ad, and when I see a relevant ad, I spend 30s or more on it. Even twitch has banner ads on the sides of the video because the main content is the streamer, selling promotions and stuff. Why not just play banner ads on the side without sound, then sometimes play those ads with annoying audio. Literally nails on a chalkboard.
Thing is, I didn't mind watching ads in 2014, when they were 5/10 seconds long or 30 seconds long but skippable. But today, there's no way I'm sitting through 2 minutes of ads in a 10 minute video. I never used ad block until youtube started grouping multiple ads together.
that is the exact same reason i got a blocker. Give us a few ads here and there and i can guarantee that if they had done that instead of dozens of ads less then a 10th of the people using blockers now would have used them at all
@@lilfox747 One time I got 45 minutes of unskipable ad for 10 minute video
Agree 100%, I didn't mind ads when it didn't ruin my youtube experience. Nowadays there's just a frustrating amount of ads, I don't wanna watch more ads than videos
Sometimes I get two (2!!) 15 second non-skippable ads
If the Ai that is watching you 24/7 realises when you fall asleep during a video, it will launch you 30-240 min ads every ad for you. I was watching a 1h long video and fallen asleep once and after i woke up 9h later, i have "watched" 33 min of the video... the rest was ads.
It's ironic that guidelines say that you must watch ads, the same ads that are infamous for breaking said guidelines.
Type shit.
That's one thing that gets me. Like bruh.
We are not running "ad blockers;" we are "preventing malvertisement lures in our environment."
Some of the ads also lead to some very dicey sites lol.
A couple years ago I got a legitimate cam website ad. I'm sure it was a one time slip up and likely won't ever happen again (at least to me anyway), but it was still wild and I was thankful I was at home for it.
It's hilarious how these companies STILL don't seem to get it.
If we get forced to watch ads too much, we leave.
If they start injecting ads into ever-cost-increasing streaming services, we leave.
If they keep increasing the price of the services, we leave.
And for those who asks "But how will you watch movies then ?"
Ah me boy, I'm from the time before streaming-services. We all put on a fancy hat and pull out our Cutlass.....
Yarrr!
Come aboard and bring along all your hopes and dreams
Meh, I'll go to reading hour at the library, watch some local LARPers, I don't have to watch RUclips.
Honestly, I'll be happy to see the rise of local community, which they technically fear us actually being a united community more than us stop paying and stop watching, so bring it.
Yohoho!
aint got knowledge of pirating, but im fine with waiting for DVD releases on movies over any streaming service or live tv
You know, maybe people would be willing to view ads if they weren’t:
1) so shoved down everyone’s throats and so ridiculously omnipresent
2) weren’t advertising porn, malware, and scams
3) weren’t so intrusive and personal
They have zero moderation for what gets advertised and still get pissy when people aren’t bending over and taking all the ads with a smile on their face. The goddamn FBI is telling people to use Adblock and RUclips still insists it’s against TOS, they need to be sued for literally advertising scams and 18+ material on their website, but we all know they won’t change or get sued
It would also help if the ads at least matched the content a little bit. I've watched quiet videos to calm and relax, only to be interrupted by the loudest, most obnoxious crap on the site. It's the main reason why I use downloaders.
REAL, THE ONLY GOOD AD I SAW IS THE SAMSUNG AD WHICH HAS THE AI TRANSLATE FEATURE AND ANOTHER ONE W A CAMERA FEATURE AND I ACTUALLY EVEN SAVED THEM IN SOME PLAYLIST CUZ IDKK, THE QUALITY IS GOD DAMN GOOD AND THEIR FUN TO WATCH, I MISS THESE ADS😭😭😭😭
your damn right, buddy.
UE laws: it's illegal to block adblockers. It is a total violation of the users privacy and rights.
All above 100%. I will add that goog is a censorious, spying, propaganda pushing, effstick company. And for all those reasons, eff them
One day, you'll have to watch an ad to enter your own house...
"You can unlock your door after this 20 seconds ad!"
20 seconds seem reasonable.
I expected 3 30 second unskippable ads
Then your bidet app starts making you wait to flush and clear the **** from your ### while you listen to audio t-paper ads coming from the voice in your toilet bowl.
I would remove the door and replace it with a door that I made
some black mirror shit, or whatever that show was
Regularly surfing the internet through ad block literally saves you hours and hours of your life.
Yeah it's so bad these days that it's sometimes difficult to sit through and watch a MoistCritical video because he doesn't use an adblocker, which just highlights the actual need for an adblocker.
Anytime I have to use a browser/device/individual site without an ad-blocker, I remember just how ludicrous the ad situation on most web pages has become...I understand they have to pay the bills somehow, but the number of ads is obscene, not only making viewing content painful (this is on sites beyond RUclips), but slowing down pages as well.
@@yellowblanka6058 I had to download an ad-blocker browser app on my phone because most site were almost unreadable because half of my screen would be taken by ads, giving me barely 4-5 lines of text to actually read, and a lot of time while scrolling up or down it pulls up ads over everything. It's truly a nightmare to browse.
Don't care
@@EatinPaste he probably does in private, he just doesnt want you to use them when watching his videos.
You know it's bad when the FBI recommends people use adblockers
It's because of all the *_malware_* that comes from ads, including the kind you don't even have to interact with, merely _having the malicious ad be chosen to load_ on an entirely mundane page is enough to get you cryptolockered. Google knows this, and Google _wants it to keep happening_ because they get kickbacks from "looking the other way" and allowing malicious ads in the AdSense network.
The glowies know what's up
they cant force people to supprot governments, lol. big mistake to use fbi like that.
i wouldnt trust the fbi either
I have right now both AdBlock Plus and the native Opera addblocker on; And I will tell you, It's HILARIOUS to see every video taking 5-8 seconds to load in because RUclips's scripts are actively fighting a war against both layers of defense. Brave Browser can do It natively (and better mind you), but the war is basicaly the same. It's like watching Goku vs Jiren at 25fps.
If they put it back to 1 ad with a 5 second skipable ad I’ll watch it
Sometimes, YT creator scumbags buy ads to put their 20 minute videos as ads. This is ridiculous.
@@PyromancerRift At that point just choose their video on the right and click ''do not recommend this channel'' and don't watch them ever again.
I won't lol. That would be 10000x better than what we have now but I still refuse to watch it.
@@PyromancerRift I just click off of those videos and dislike
nah i won't watch it anymore, they wanted to be greedy so they'll pay back the time they stole with those long double unskippable 30s ads for everyone, i'm never going back
I remember when RUclips ads consisted of little banners scattered around the web page. I'd look at them while the video was loading or during a section I found boring. then they started putting 1 at the start of a video, but at least you could skip it. but then you couldn't, as well it became common to have a long ad or 2 before the video. what ultimately got me using ad blockers was a combination of rural internet and poor optimization, leading to the ad being the only thing the website would load
The FBI recommends using an adblocker, that should be a big sign to folks on how insidious ads on the net currently are.
Is there a source that states that? I'm not doubting it but this topic definitely peeked my interest and I want to read more into it haha
I thought it was the DOJ.
piqued
@@Sopa_Soup Takes all of 2 seconds to google. Grow some functioning brain cells
@@GreatFox42 You thought wrong
*Ads, bots, and AdBots* own 60% of the internets.
The ads themselves are advertising for scams...
Try 90 percent
And the dark web is another 20%, NSFW is another 19.99%, and the 0.01% is everything you know that is the internet.
dead internet theory
And sponsor companies taking up 50% of a video 😒
i miss when ads could be seen in the video timestamps. And not only that. It could be more than one ad, but never in the same place.
The twitter screenshot of "What is the first thing you watch" and someone replying RUclips with "2 unskippable ads" is just so real
Case in point. I used to use RUclips on my phone while I was out doing yard work. Stuff like Mowing, trimming the weeds, painting and all of that. I'd often put on longer commentary videos or even just music. I can't say I know for certain that they detect these type of things.. but I swear they have something setup to detect when your hands are full and just lay the ads on you like a jackhammer, though this is a different point
After getting sick and tired of dealing with random 3-5 minute long ads popping up in my feed, tired of having to fish my phone out of my pockets just to skip an ad, spending more time trying to skip ads than doing work. I got fed up with it. It was particularly irksome when I'm in an area with low signal/bad bandwidth.. That for some odd reason, the ads would ALWAYS play. They play at higher quality than the videos I'm on, they don't have to load, it's like youtube pre-installed their ad on my phone to give it priority, that way even if you can't watch your video, you can watch their ad.
The even funnier part is that they had the nerve to put Survey questions in their advertisements asking things like "are you satisfied with the length of advertisements you're usually shown?" "How helpful do you find the advertisements we've been showing you?" "How likely are you to" You get the picture..
Anyways, currently gonna try Spotify, if anyone has any better app recommendations let me know.
SoundCloud? Using this app, it's not bad in my opinion.
youtube to mp3 is generally my go to, since I use data I can't exactly afford to watch 10 minute 1080p ads in public transport.
firefox and ublock origin work fine on my android for youtube
YMusic if you download MP3s.
I use Brave Web browser. They have a thing where when you go to a RUclips video, you can save it to the browser's playlist, to which you can play offline and without ads.
It's funny how they act like we are the villians for using ad block when most of the ads on this platform are either scams or misleading mobile game ads. People have complained about this before to RUclips but they never listened. This is all their fault.
Once got an ad for a game that doesn't exist named "crimson angel". Recognized two of the images as being the inventory screens on the ad being from Diablo and Grim Dawn. It was in the recommend section.
@@1gient same thing happened to me a few years ago but it was with a game that was falsely advertised as a RPG horror esque pokemon game but ended up being a shitty pokemon rip off with too much fanservice and literally none of what the ads advertised.
it cuz they want money
@1gient I saw something like that too, they blatantly ripped a png of the inventory in diablo 2 and filled it with their extraneous nonsense
Being a villain is sometimes good
$200+ billion in profits last year alone....make sure to disable your blockers guys they're struggling here.
"Leave my billion dollar company alone!"
All that money and they can't even put 10% off it in making the entire platform/website better, smh..
you need top comment.
@@Razer5542 making it better would make people satisfied and leave earlier. They want to keep you not satisfied enough to leave
They won’t be able to make rent this month if you keep your Adblock enabled >:(
I get ads about adblockers, ads with gore, and ads with swearing lmao
I once saw an ad that, like, was in a different language. And it seemed to be some sort of propaganda video, ripped off of tiktok. And there was a guy in military clothes being cut open by some other dudes standing around him. It was...scary, really. Loud noises, too.
I get really sus ads, ads for dating apps, ads for scams, and a lot of other really bad things
@@Crestfallen_Warrior Holy shit?
@@Sneezingcat1009officialme too! Even though all i watch is gaming stuff and documentaries, even worse when a friend looks over your shoulder to see one of them ads
yeah that didn't happen tho@@Crestfallen_Warrior
The whole reason I got Adblock in the first place was because Google kept showing me ads that were totally irrelevant to me and/or terrifying to me. I went in to Chrome’s settings and MANUALLY TOLD THEM MY AD PREFERENCES and wouldn’t you know it, I STILL GOT THE SAME ADS.
Adblockers are cheaper AND more effective for me than more therapy and medication would be…
A few years ago, when I turned 18, I started to get a fuck-ton of ads about beer, condoms, cigarettes and diapers, just because they thought that's what a guy of my age should like. I even tried to set my preferences to avoid those kind of ads but it didn't work, they kept popping up non-stop.
I can't even imagine how it must feel like being someone struggling with alcoholism and being bombarded with alcohol ads just because of their gender, age or country.
Remember when the RUclips ads were unobtrusive little banners at the bottom of the video that you could just close while the video still played?
the classic case of capitalism "wait i can continuously make the advertisement and price of my product more and more intrusive so i can get more money at the cost of my customer's happiness? OFC ILL DO THAT WHAT DO YOU MEAN ITS A CHOICE?"
roblox was just sued for faking profits
i bet RUclips will soon start to fake their profits too as theres no way they're getting more than 2 subscribers from this
I have a feeling they actually made more money back then. Didn't even bother blocking those ads and even clicked on some of the non-scammy ones.
I was there 3000 years ago...
Pepperidge Farms Remembers
Ads are ruining the internet.
Ads are paying for the internet
So how exactly do you want companies to be profitable?
They have already ruined it.
@@robbirose7032Go on any news site now and say that again please
@@turkeyman631friendly donations and government grants
I have YT Premium (a gift from my son), but YT is now forcing content creators to interrupt their content videos with YT-created ads. This is analogous to the "Rule of Law" deception which allows legislators to pass vague/ambiguous laws as a workaround to let them break their own laws.
Now we need AiAdblocker, that watches the video first, detects all ads and when the time comes it jumps them automatically
honestly good idea
if someone from 2004 saw any modern website, they would assume they'd downloaded a virus
If you use a modern website without an ad blocker, there is a good chance you have downloaded some malware.
Bro I think you forget how absolutely awful pop up ads used to be. Like the internet today is far safer than it used to be as far as malicious ads go. Clearly you were not on the internet back in the 2000s
@@Blartflart2234 uhh yes but no.
things like glitches that let some random dude in another country BSOD your computer have gotten fixed.
but scam ads are replacing that hole
@@-_lIl_- sure there are lots of scam ads. You know what’s great about scam ads compared to malicious code. I can completely avoid scam ads by just ignoring ads.
It’s 100% foolproof
@@Blartflart2234I’ve had my entire computer bricked once because of ads. Had to call the cops because it got serious too due to the nature. That happened only 10 years ago. I run ad blockers and other programs to keep myself safe online.
I wouldn't use Ad block if 99% of the ads I see were not scam ads.
Or annoyingly loud and intrusive
Yes you would
@@xx_pcgamer_xx6866 Wow, y'all must know each other pretty well
real
@@xx_pcgamer_xx6866init like bruh tf. Who tf wants to watch a 30 second Coke then a 15 second Revolut ad back to back why do people lie
Before this, most people didnt even know adblockers existed. Its like youtube is throwing out their whole userbase for the 10-20% of people that actually used adblockers in the first place!
I remember that I made a post on facebook about 10 years ago, complaining about the insane amount of ads I was getting. A friend told me about using adblock and... Now I can't even think about using internet without an adblock.
So yeah, the more ads they put and the more they fight against adblockers, the more people will download them xD
In Norway, it’s illegal for adds that have gambling, sex and alcohol in it on ANY media including internet sites that are specifically Norwegian. RUclips basically says haha no
YouTuba as the global leviathan it is, simply dosen't care about laws of small countries. Norway also isn't in the EU, so even if they would threat to block YT, they simply wouldn't care. Nations need to stick together to regulate the modern tech giants, only nations like the US or China can regulate companies like that on their own.
Sadly, i don't see the nations of the world to take this problem serious enough to work together - yet.
My only hope is when new generations get into politics, at some point this will change. Until that we have to fight back with technical counter measures like adblock.
Okay?
RUclips also isnt allowed to detect who is using Ad blockers in the EU and yet they still did it, tho I haven't been harassed by RUclips for using Ad blockers for half a year now so maybe they actually had some beef with the EU and now they don't dare to do it anymore.
So they attack and chase ad blockers but ignore the millions of bots and scammers on youtube bots have gotten so out of hand that I gave up on looking at the comments of most videos
They favor the bots.
If the Bots watch Ads, That's just free money for them
I was really expecting you to be a bot who ripped off a random comment and got likes botted☠️
@jerricaleonard2123 I've seen a bot say "I love CP so much"
@@Alex-oz2eu lmao no
This site just gets more and more unbearable to use day by day.
Nobody holding you hostage my dude
@@xXDoUbLeDDXx38 Wrong, Yt is pretty much the biggest monopoly there is. Absolutely no alternatives whatsoever
It's like they are provoking us at this point. We will NEVER succumb to this idiotic forced ad campaign!
Actually, this isn't as bad as people think. If they're embedding it into the video itself then that means its subject to how the player functions... meaning you can just skip it by manually moving the track bar.
Likewise, if at certain points it just randomly plays ads then adblock works.
Simply put, even though they found a way around adblockers it just means people have to pay attention to the videos they watch to skip ads.
@@xXDoUbLeDDXx38 Who said anybody was my guy
If the ad is part of the stream, there will be two options: The server sends data where the ad is or it doesn’t. If it doesn’t, it’s like a sponsored segment that the viewer can just skip like any other part of a video (this is how it is with some podcasts on Spotify). Ads usually can’t be skipped, and for that have to be marked in some shape or form, but then, ad blockers can use that information and distinguish content and ads.
I run 5 different adblocks to be sure that every website I go on, none of the cookies, ads or pop-ups come through.
It all was acceptable at first, but since 80% of the ads are scams or irrelevant to me. I couldn't find the point or use to keep watching and seeing them. Not to mention how many times I see the same ad over and over again. If I see the same ad 4 times in a video of 10 minutes, that is very annoying.
An other thing I have to add, is that I live in a country where multiple languages are spoken and VPN is forbidden to use. I am unable to speak or understand all the languages that my country has, but ofcourse the ad distribution system or whatever it is, does not care about which part of my country I live. So most of the times, I'll see ads that I don't even understand, which makes it even more annoying.
Is forbidding VPN a thing? What kind of country does that? Can you use uBlock Origin?
the irony is that all the adblocker controversy has just drove more adblockers traffic
For real, I found a better ad blocker because of all this controversy
We complain about the attacks, but the effect is actually a good thing overall.
People don't want to fix things until they're completely broken.
@Epsilockeof gotten tons of sales for my own ad blocker cuz of the controversy 💀
@@Epsilocke Show that you care and share, which one?
After decades, companies still don't understand the Streisand effect, it's wild.
RUclips thinking the tiktok generation won't just close the tab when they get a 30 second ad is hilarious.
I literally click a bunch of videos untill it stops giving me ads and then just come back to the one i wanted to watch
I never thought about it like that, but now that you've phrased it that way, it makes a lot of sense!
Ikr!? RUclips is basically sticking a steering wheel into the ground and trying to turn the Planet Earth into another direction.
Thanks to the revanced devs i haven't seen an ad in about five years, even on my phone
This. Between the desktop ad/sponsor blocks, and revanced, I haven't watched a thing. I will leave youtube for good before I watch ads.
RUclips's crusade against adblock users is getting more intense by the day. First, they tried guilt-tripping us with pop-ups, then they threatened to block content, and now they're reportedly working on injecting ads directly into video streams. What's next? I wouldn't be surprised if RUclips starts secretly mining cryptocurrency on our devices if they detect adblock or fail to show us ads. "Oh, you don't want to watch our ads? That's fine, we'll just borrow your CPU cycles instead. Enjoy your video and your suddenly very warm laptop!"
I installed adblock for my 7 year old sister.
My last straw was when my sister clicked on an ad for cake making game but it led her to a gambling app installation link.
RUclips ads wouldn't be as bad , if it didn't accept litteral scams etc💀
what the everloving fuck
@@DoodleDoggo268ikr! Like wtf
@@DoodleDoggo268we just need to have the same regulations televisions have
I mean youtube is for +13yo. RUclips kids exists. Not saying that promoting gambling for 13 year olds is ok.
"If you use ad blockers, we'll ask you to allow ads on RUclips" No Thanks, I'll just block the warning. I don't need to see that loud temu ad for the 282792th time.
"dEsTrOy ThEm AlL!1!"
SHUT UP!!!!!
They show the same ads over million times and also scam ads it's annoying
🎶 Feels like a dream feels like magic
Now I believe I can have it
Ooh ooh temu🎶
or ads with stolen ai voices, ive seen targeted kids products ads stealing spongebobs voice
This is actually so fair. They have no right to advertise scams
i personally don't mind "sponsor" inserts at all. If i can help a CC that i like by watching them i absolutely will. The issue with ads is 20% their qoantity and 80% their quality. When majority of ads are misleading, confusing, scams, borderline NSFW game ads and even straight up malicious.... yeah, that'd make for a good point to use adblocker.
What’s worse about this situation is that ads used to be like 15 seconds long max, but now every time I try to watch RUclips on my TV I get bombarded with 30 second unskipable ads that pop up every 5 minutes. And now instead of the app telling you that they’re gonna play 2 ads, they just play both ads as one and don’t let you skip. Maybe instead of forcing us to watch such long ads, RUclips should make the experience more bearable so we wouldn’t be forced to get an ad block, maybe offer some kind of reward for watching ads or something…
advertisers should understand that if someone doesn't want to see the ad, showing it over and over doesn't change the fact that the user doesn't want the product
nope because 1 out of 100 is stupid enough to give in after 20 adds. but yeah for the other 99 yeah you are totally right.
the more i see an ad the less i want a product.
@@aaafox9955 same
@@RednasXYZABC123 1 out of 100,000 more like. The only people to genuinely even consider going to whatever offhanded 3rd party site the product being advertised is on are strictly; people who do not know how the internet works, which is mostly the youngest of crotch goblins, and the oldest of ash piles. That, and the literal braindead vegetables. that is still an iota of the people on the internet.
I blacklist most products I see through RUclips ads because they're so aggressive and interrupting. The quality has gotten worse, too, AI-generated voices and blatant manipulation tactics
I used to be anti-adblock as to help support content creators online until RUclips rolled out double ads and the fandom wiki started becoming non-navigational. Legit we need laws against the absurd amount of ads we're being forced to watch because the current generation isn't affected by them.
Fandom is damn near impossible on a mobile phone, you can barely scroll anything! Whats more annoying is, its usually one of the first things on most search engines.
Main reason i mention Phone is when im playing a game its often faster to grab the phone, load google, say what im looking for and scroll the pages than it is to go to my (ancient) PC.
@@TheAuron32 absolutely, and it's especially infuriating when it's all the same ad for something you just don't need. I'm tired of getting ads to stop vaping and *especially* Temu or Depop. Who has spare money for that kinda thing in this economy?
@@robunnygirl None of these ads ever apply to me. It's astonishing how bad they are at targeting, considering how much effort goes into data collection.
I remember how I went to Fandom Wiki without my adblocker. It was truly an impossible task.
@@robunnygirl Even if the one sending out the ads pools like 800 billion trillion bazillion doubloons, there should still be variety.
Biggest brain move from Google would be to remove RUclips ad block, and create a service called RUclips Ad block. Nobody gives a shit about "RUclips Premium" But plenty of people would pay a nickle on the dime for an official youtube Ad-block.
If i remember. They had it at one point, but then got rid of it for some reason
I mean really I bought RUclips premium basically as a way to pay for ad block. Also to listen to videos and they keep playing
I don't want to get disgusting ads like Hero Wars, scam ads, and other things. I don't mind them otherwise. But I have been yelling at them about Hero Wars for years and I finally just said "I have been getting ads that are very obviously scams and fishing for money for fake products and it's sad I want these more than a game."
I remember when RUclips ONLY HAD ONE AD AT THE BEGINNING and that was all the ads you saw. I miss those days. I hate mid roll ads and end ads so much.
That’s always the worst when listening to music on YT, it is incredibly annoying to be listening to a symphony and it cuts off in the middle of a movement (not even between movements) to show a 15 sec ad
Bro just use russian vpn, works better than any adblocker
That was nice but once I got a 15 min unskipable ad
When I saw “Ad 1 of 2” for the first time, I was very thrown off. Of all the insignificant things I always forget, that’s one that I normally would, but I remember where I was and how wild it seemed to me.
For end ads I just click off but it is annoying fr fr
Without adblockers, the internet would be unusable.
The man who invented the popup ad didn't suffer enough in life tbh
@@sinjin8576 the popup ad used to be one of the first viruses i believe
But how else will i know what to stuff down my gullet while i\m watching the newest episode of "Ow my balls"?
@@sinjin8576He actually regrets it
Thats putting it lightly
Ads are useless , can't remember the last time I ran out and bought something because I saw an ad for it
From a single 5 second add they added more, then they added unakippable ones, then they made the add block the comments whilst it is rolling, if you buy premium they still advertise Google products. Why would I ever pay?
Half of them are scams, pornography and worse things.
when there was only 1-2 ads per video, we endured, but now, literally yesterday i got 4 ads in a row, luckly the third one was skippable, this is unacceptable, that's why using adblockers is a necessity those days.
It’s unbearable to use the TV app. There’s more than 2 ads every time, and you can’t go like 3 mins without an ad. It SUCKS. I use SmartTube on my firestick.
Remember when it was one ad skippable after 5 seconds, full stop?
Not to mention loads of these ads are scams/malware.
@@michasokoowski6651if not that, it's mobile games with the most ludicrous jiggle physics you've ever seen in your life
Use Brave, Adblock comes automatically with it, nothing else than Brave to download, not an advertisement, I legit made the switch a month ago, best decision I've made in years. I can assure you it works and its 100% Free, just like Firefox or Chrome
Why can’t we class action RUclips. If Blocking ads is against the terms of service and 90% of the ads are malicious scams, RUclips should be held liable and complacent in criminal activity, and there fire should be charged with fraud.
Edit: I was not expecting the amount of discourse on this, but it is not unwelcome.
They have too much money for regular people to fight against.
@@filonin2 Thus the class action suite.
It would never happen in the US bc we've barely done anything to regulate the internet in favor of the people. The only regulations that have been passed are those that the corporate entities paid to force through congress and the FCC. If they were to apply existing regulation to the internet as exists for the radio/tv it would actually address what's going on. For example, if you create content for a Japanese based YT channel, they can try to force you to abide by Japanese laws which favor the corporation infinitely more than US law does. Yet if you create content for a Japanese tv channel in the US, they have to follow US and state laws to the letter or they would be outright banned from operating within the US. This has been a serious issue for a couple subsets of streamers/content creators, largest currently being vtubers.
Google is due owned and CIA run. Good luck with that.
@@uumanebs At this point it’s no longer about regulation. RUclips (and by extension google) at this time have been negligent to the point where criminal activity is just flat out okay on RUclips in the form of many of these ads that, by refusing to takedown, may as well make them complicit, pretty sure that kind of stuff is illegal in way more than just the US.
I might just delete YT off my phone altogether and focus entirely on other sites and streaming services. Maybe I'll play more video games or even watch television for the first time in a decade.
Wait so let me get this straight: Google is against people on RUclips blocking ads that make money for them first and their content creators second, but once a content creator gets sponsored, which makes money exclusively for them, Google will let people use a tool that automatically skips over it, presumably because there's no point in a viewer watching it because it's not making Google any money?
Wow, I am definitely deleting this app, or at least taking a long hiatus. I'm not prepared to deal with this BS and the best way we can hurt them is by hitting them in their pocketbooks and market share. If they don't have enough people on the platform, companies with ads will retract their ads, and maybe Google will tone it down a bit.
RUclips in browser is pretty much identical to the RUclips app, just use that instead, with adblock
RUclips: you will watch the ads
Me with cancer and youtube premium: i dont think so
When they put 30 sec ads on 40 sec videos……. Yeahhhhhhh they pushed me to install ad blockers… and the kicker is 90% of ads in this garbage site are SCAM ADS!!!! Holy fuck why!
The amount of literal porn ads on this site is insane, especially with all of the AI chatbot ads.
Because, that sweet sweet money of course, the scam advertising always pays a higher price
@@pigeonliveryworks But oversaturation and poor quality drive down the value of ALL ads shown on the platform. It encourages viewers to tune out and do something else for a minute. Then come back and hit Skip if it's a stupidly long ad, or 0 to rewind to the start of the actual video they intended to watch.
Advertisers should be FURIOUS about the diminishing quality on their end too.
Yep I never used an adblocker for 10+ years. They did this to themselves.
Has anyone else gotten the "skip ad in 5 seconds" the ad is actually 4 seconds, so you have to wait an extra 5 seconds of the NEXT ad to able to skip?
A multi billion dollar company bitching about loosing a minute amount of money is classic
Yep, fucking capitalism.
RUclips: "Stop blocking ads and watch these 2, 30 second ads, we'll Increase the amount of ads In a row later!"
well servers are really expensive, if they keep losing money eventually they'd have to shut down RUclips. it's like RUclips probably costs over a couple million dollars to run per year if not per month
@tedbasher3000 And there's the multi billion dollar company simp.
He isn't wrong though, if they don't have operating money then we won't have a place to watch the content we enjoy for relatively free @@grishobombata4994
RUclips has done the impossible; made me nostalgic for TV ads
I wouldn't watch anything on RUclips if I couldn't block the ads. I gave up television years ago.
TV became 80% adverts, blaring and screaming at you about products you totally don't care about. We moved to the internet, enjoyed RUclips... And we're almost coming full circle.
except you can't go back to TV, because it's been trashed. youtube is becoming the next landfill. Where to next, everybody?
It was over when Google bought out RUclips long ago, where have you been?
The next thing is video games and it’s all ready happening
we're back to cable with every single platform and their basement child asking for a subscription.
Give people something good to get them hooked, Gradually make it worse to increase profits. Streaming was a good alternative to cable Now its just hundreds of channels again only its harder to figure out where your show is and each channel is a different app with a separate monthly fee
People use Adblock
Add more ads to make up for lost revenue
People are forced to use Adblock
Lose more money
Very intelligent people you have working for you RUclips
RUclips doesn't realize that their ads have such bad quality control. They think that quality is loud AF double ads. Nobody gives a S#!T about temu or oreos..
Most of the people working at RUclips most likely have purple-colored hair and at least 5 facial piercings. Intelligence and logic is not exactly their strong suit.
@@K9V1 oh no... piercings!!!!1!1! And colored hair!?!?!?!
Touch grass.
@@K9V1logic sure isn't yours, either, huh
oh some pierced blue haired gooses 😂😂 funny
We have the rights to not watch ads we didn't ask for
47,198 ads blocked. My AdBlocker is a CHAMP
4,304 mln overhere, and I don't even have this pc for over 1 year lol
Just a friendly reminder that RUclips does not pay ALL of its content creators. Only the ones it has approved of... but it will put ads on EVERY SINGLE VIDEO.
B...b.but using adblock is agaisnt TOS!!!
This part makes me mad in particular. I upload music on a different channel with videos that only get like 20 views or less on average, and it will still put ads when I've tested watching them with other accounts or incognito. Monetizing my music when I haven't made a penny
@@carlosrenteria4712 and when you try to monetize your own work you get bots nuking your channel with copyright claims on your own music
They were playing ads on channels they told were "not suitable for any advertisers"... I think The Quartering was one who showed their email, and half the comments on that video were "but I just got ads in this video".
That's what really got me mad. Not that they had decided to demonetize politically opposed people, but that they lied to them and continued playing ads to make money for themselves.
That was what lead me to find Vanced back in the day.
Yep. Years ago unmonetized creators like myself could choose to not have ads play on our videos, but at some point YT started playing ads on them anyway and keeping 100% of the revenue. That part in particular doesn't set right with me.
I remember my brother and I would watch videos 2008ish and there was 1 ad every 4 vids or so. And if it was a longer ad (3-5 mins) we would let it play to “give the youtubers a nickel.” we would say. Then we’d run to the bathroom, grab a snack, do part of a chore etc. Then we’d come back when the ad finished, pause it, finish our tasks. Then we’d come back to a fully loaded, ad free video.
Beautiful, engaging, not frustrating. I wish youtube was still like that. Sometimes I do that system where I will let an ad play while I grab something. But the video never fully loads and I’ll unpause it and it immediately plays another ad.
if you aren't there to get tortured with those boring àss ads, then you get punished by getting queued to 100 other hours of áds
From RUclips's standpoint, ad views like that were useless. I wouldn't be surprised they made it that way to actually make sure you are present when an ad is shown.
Nah! This video sat in my watch later for a few days and I still came back to a great video!!!!
The only reason I installed Adblock was because the ads got to the point of being very intrusive. They overdid it, to their peril.
I didn't start using adblock till about two years ago. The ads not just on RUclips, but everywhere you go have just become so unbearable that it's impossible to read an article without getting an ad thrown at you every minute. The entire internet has been rendered basically unusable without some sort of adblock for your browser.
So to add to the dead internet theory, its not only 90% bots but also 90% ads killing it
Absolutely. My friends and boyfriend were shocked when I installed adblock on their PCs and had them use it for a few weeks, then told them to turn it off and see the difference. Most of them were absolutely shocked by how many ads they were suddenly seeing. I think people have gotten desensitized to the amount of ads and pop-ups they're really seeing every time they browse the internet, to the point that they're surprised when they have adblock and their browsing experience is so clean and simple. No videos in the corner, moving gif ads, loud autoplay, scams, or constant noise.
@@arson7012 What adbock do you use that works on YT?
Much of the internet has always been funded by ads. This has happened before - there was a time when the big problem was increasingly aggressive pop-ups and the hated pop-under, leading to sites becoming unusable due to the number of clicks required to close them all. It got so bad that every browser developer simply disabled the ability to launch pop-up windows without a triggering interaction.
@@vylbird8014I remember that…early 2000s internet was terrible.
My family uses RUclips on our living room tv, not signed-in. It is almost unwatchable with how RUclips’s ad system works. You always have an ad before the video, a 10ish minute video will have 3 ads that are extremely louder than the video then there’s an ad when the video ends. The ads being 5-times louder than the video is a fucking sin the lord cannot forgive, I swear our brand new speakers will be blown out before the end of the year.
the youtube ad managers should probably learn about something called "sensory overload"
P.S. sensory overload is similar to overstimulation; when something is too loud or too flashing or bright
RUclips TV has waaay too many ads, ive gotten 5 unskippable ads in a row before.
@@alexzgreat133 same
If a video is like 45 minutes, you will get 1 minute of unskippable ads
Ads being louder if anything is a threat to ear sensitive people
The HUGE issue with RUclips’s Adblock war is that to combat it they just put more and more ads on their site, this makes it so more and more people will start using adblockers. There’s a giant circle of
User is buried in ads > user downloads adblocker > RUclips starts putting more ads > more users gradually download adblockers
And what I don’t see many people talk about is the TV version of RUclips. This is the version I mainly use and just about any video you start is swarmed by ads you can skip, or ads that SAY you can skip, but you can’t. I just end up selecting the “About This Ad” button and pressing “Stop seeing this ad” to skip them instantly, but not every ad allows you to do that. The main example that comes to mind is military ads, which are sometimes 30 seconds long and aren’t skip able at all.
Also, I’m gonna just put this on the end, but all ads make me wanna do is boycott the product I’m forced to see for 15 or 30 seconds. I will GO OUT OF MY WAY to NOT USE the product that is shoved down my throat for 30 seconds.
props to bro not putting an ad in this video
It's incredible how sites like RUclips can keep going "People HATE our ads and are trying to block them.... How should we handle this?" and then somehow make the situation even worse than before.
Why is that incredible? They don't care that we don't like them they make money off of them so they're going to try to make us at least play them. It may not be that Black mirror episode where you're forced to keep your eyes on the ad but they do want them to play so they get the money. Because you're not even their customer you're a product to them. Remember if something is free you're the product.
@@MamaMOB It's not so much the concept of the ads themselves but the nature of the absolute scams/phishing sites they allow to run rampant advertising on here, which pulls in untold numbers of hapless victims who know no better than to click on malicious links. Atop that, most other harmless links are irrelevant to individual interests and support YT's own agenda.
Because no one will do anything, we will keep enjoying our circus while they keep slow boiling us
It is so frustrating. I have never used adblock. I wasn't necessarily against them, I just didn't feel any need for them. However, now the ads come so often and are so long (with no option to skip) that I am seriously considering getting ad blocks just because of that. Like seriously YT, you're not getting rid of adblocks, you are driving more people towards them.
@@MamaMOB Do you not understand the point the op is making? They are saying it's incredible that RUclips knows people hates the ads yet they still try to force even stricter ones as it really is incredible but not in a good sense
Imagine if RUclips took 10% of the effort they put into combating adblockers and put it into fighting bots. I have seen dozens, if not hundreds of bot accounts using the same pictures of women in lingerie as profile pictures and commenting nonsense on the videos I watch. Whenever a new video is out they are the first to "comment".
Yes
Name checks out @@CertifiedCommentBotHater
Yeah, as a Business they are just trying to make money. But they should know if they don't wanna vet suitable ads then they gotta expect people to want out via adblock. I mean they could make a useful business show ads that people would benefit from, not just bc it was paid but something that someone would wanna buy or need and vet the ads. Not allowing sketchy ads run rampant. Personally if I was in charge that's what I'd do, vet ads and make them minimal. I mean it's a free service so they gotta get there money one way or another but do it right.
@@Timely-ud4rmBut with the number of uploads right now, I'd think they'd rather accept any way they can earn money
This is truly a masterpiece. You have such a way with words!
real ones remember the days when ads were just a small rectangle on the video that you could click X on
At your end point I do agree, I would preffer to have 3 ads at the start of the video (if it's more than 10 minutes) than being bombarded 3-4 times (sometimes more) every few minutes to skip ads at all
I've gotten 2 minute ads trying to watch my own 30 second videos. I used RUclips on my Switch and watched a movie trailer, getting three or four ads in a row, multiple times and had to stop part way through, swearing to never use the app on Switch again.
If RUclips wants people to dial back on using Adblockers, they need to dial back how much they shove ads in our faces (Not to mention holding said ads to the same restrictions as content creators, the creepy ads need to go). TV adverts are nowhere near as annoying and they have dedicated ad breaks on most channels!
just close out of the video and enter it again until the ads stop
Finally someone is talking about RUclips ads on console, they are actually insufferable because it's 3 ads in a row sometimes
When TV ads get praised for restraint, you know RUclips is in another fucking universe.
What's worse is when non-monetized videos still get ads. Worst of all: medical videos that require immediate knowledge.
I’m so damn glad I use older versions of RUclips and don’t update them so that I don’t have to go through that bs
I feel like most people have sort of forgotten how YT use to do that small ad banners that popped up on the bottom of the screen, ya know? When they were not excessively invasive and interrupted what you were watching but just came in while the video still played and took up MAYBE 5% of your screen
I remember those times! You could always close them and continue to watch the video without interruption!
Why can’t they go back to it?! Now ads just pop up with no warning and get invasive and annoying now 😓
back when the teacher had their mouse on it and the one kid with balls of steel went around to the computer to click off of it
and then google
@@xXxXxXxAllianaxXxXxX money hoarders😥
From a users perspective RUclips peaked at around 2010-2012. We had custom profiles with a profile editor, private messages, the motto was "broadcast yourself" and you could decide where and how many ads you wanted to show on your videos.
Yeah, I've got no problem with ads so long as they are either 5 - 10 seconds long or are skippable if they're longer, no not show inappropriate content and are not queued up one after the other. Oh, and not shown at various points during a video. I could (maybe?) understand 2 to 3 on a three hour long video but I think in 99% of cases they should be at the beginning. And Mutahar, much respect for you putting sponsors at the beginning of your videos. Occasionally a youtuber will put a sponsor halfway through their video and it will work if it somehow relates to the overall content of the video but most of the time it's just clunky so I really appreciate you putting yours at the beginnings of your videos.
Their anti-adblocking war is so aggressive that *EVEN THOUGH I PAY FOR PREMIUM TO NOT SEE ADS* they throttled my videos because I had an Adblocker on my Browser. So the whole "if you use an ad blocker allow ads on RUclips or sign up for Premium" thing is totally bullshit. It wasn't until I whitelisted YT that the throttling stopped **again** despite me paying for Premium already.
Stop paying money to this horrible platform. Waste of money. I still don't get any ads and I use the same adblocker I've used for like 12 years - what it does now is it simply skips the ads immediately rather than blocking them entirely or showing any of the content. You just see a black screen that blinks twice (when it skips the video) and your ACTUAL video begins. Cost me $0
this happened to me as well, its beyond frustrating
SAME WTF
Lol what do you expect? They just want money, they’ll do anything to get it. Their goal IS NOT to offer a good user experience.
@@K9V1 and what ad block that is? I hate wasing 13 euro on that premium crap. It's only for those obnoxious ads, I don't care about/use any of those other features.
Okay, here's the thing ... I'm old enough to remember when cable TV was add-free. We paid for add free service and that's what we got. But then the advertising started. At first just one or two adds between shows, then eventually one ad in the middle, then it was every 6 minutes and finally in the early 2000s there were 30 minutes of advertising in a 2 hour broadcast.
But the last straw was when the ads started being louder than the rest of the programming. ENOUGH!
I got so disgusted with it that I dumped all commercial broadcasting. The TV, the FM receiver, my two AM radios, even my boom box went in the trash. (Not figuratively... literally in the trash). I haven't watched or listened to commercial broadcasting since 2008.
Then the advertising started on the internet. Slowly creeping up until 30% of my screen space was filled with ads for stuff I would never dream of buying. Then the ads started moving, talking and playing music... ENOUGH!
This time I installed ad blockers in my browser and went to downloading ad free entertainment from some rather sketchy places... just to get rid of the onslaught of crap and distraction.
Fast forward to 2024 ... I haven't seen an advertisement in almost 20 years...
Now if RUclips is going to begin server side ad injection that I can't stop... well then I will give up on RUclips entirely. Not just a couple of especially annoying channels... ALL OF IT.
It's real simple people ... If I find myself wanting to buy a bucket... I'll go to an online vendor and look at their selection... or better still, I take a walk down the street to the hardware store.
I remember being a kid watching TV in the 80's. There was always commercials expected. That was time for food or bathroom break. HBO or Cinemax was a different story with none. Yeah now everything's advertising all the time everywhere.
The ratio is correct, as a standard length TV episode now is 45 minutes long to fit in a one-hour time slot. It's 25% ads.
@@vylbird8014 Damn! I haven't watched cable television since 2013. Sounds worse but similar with ads or commercial times between.
True.The last I was excited about watching Tv was 2018
@@contra7631 Think mine was year's before then with real movie channel's.
fun fact, ad skippers get around the block youtube put up, even if it pops up (which only happens at the start of vids), you can reload the page and then it's fine again cause it thinks you've watched the ads while you didn't
The funniest part is that sponsors or ads the interrupt me watching a video, actually makes want to buy that product LESS.
Shoutout to uBlock developers constantly on the fight against youtube trying to anti adblock them and many others
REAL
uBO devs GOAT
using it for years. love it. and adguard for my mobile and tablet
Firefox + ublock = W
its been a hot min since ive had to reset ublock's cache and filters, last time i did it was like the first month yt started fighting back, just shows the kinda work theyre putting in
If RUclips makes it impossible for adblockers to work, I will stop watching RUclips and find something else to do with my time. I'll go back to using a CD player and watching older movies before I let my anxiety-ridden, ADHD brain get assaulted by loud, obnoxious ads. I'm sick of how overstimulating everything is now, and ads only exacerbate the problem.
LOL...I never stopped using my blu-ray player. I still buy movies in hard copy because I'll sit through an FBI warning--even though it is almost as stupid as ads on Pootube--but to sit through 20 minutes of ads to watch a 2 hour movie is just insufferable. Since i don't watch actual tv because I'm so tired of the scads (scam ads) like bogus life insurance, bogus health insurance, and of course, the constant political ads, my tv is just a blu-ray player now...
Cool, don't let the door hit ya on the way out
@@AnachronisticGameryt isn’t your dommy mommy, stop it bro 😂😂😂
I never realized how much I relate to this.
While my feelings are related to just decreasing my time on RUclips, I've honestly been considering switching over to, IDK, Newgrounds and other means [(🦜YOHO YOHO🏴☠] ) for entertainment. Especially since I want to focus more on producing and creating art.
ik this doesnt really have much to do with the whole adblock situation, but just today a friend of mine and I watched a youtube video on their TV. The video was 1h and 10 minutes long and during this timespan we got like 5 or 6 ad breaks with 4-5 ads each, and we could only skip the last ad every time (luckily those were shortr ads so the ad breaks were just around one minute long but it's still absurd that they seriously do 4 ads in a row now)
RUclips should be taking notes from this guys video. especially at the part where he talks about how if they put too many ads to the point it makes the site annoying to use and that it will make users leave the site.
my adblock just rolled past 380,000 ads blocked and I primarily use RUclips.. I've only had the adblock for about 5 or 6 years.. that's around 63,000 ads a year.. why am i being subjected to that much advertising when i have absolutely zero intention of purchasing anything that is being advertised..
I wonder if it's even in the interest of the advertiser. They got to be happy about the situation as they don't have to pay for somewhat pointless adspace since adblock users typically have a hatred against ads. For me they only cause me NOT to buy that product. Seriously, I have a no-buy list solely based on annoying ads
uBlock since install: about 2.5 mil blocked for me.
@@Ashvek Mu uBlock stopped 1.5 mln ads for me and I've been using it for like 6 months. That's insane and I've been primarily using YT.
@@Ashvek wow thats insane..
Blocked since install
1.048M (21%)
RUclips has gotten so greedy with their ads that they are smacking them on videos with channels that can't even be monitized, and are not giving the creators their cut, not to mention the absolutely insane number of them lately, ass platform that we're stuck with
THIS I"LL GO ON A COVER ARTIST CHANNEL AND GET ADS. TV is bad too watched a veritasium video with my mom and got like 20 mid roll ads
I am so scared of that, cause I am posting some birds videos from time to time, and they are pretty short videos. So if there is an ad on one of them, people may potentionally just close the video, since 30 seconds of content probably not worth 2 mins of ads, and won't see the cool stuff.
The browser that I use works to prevent me from wasting bandwidth. I highly recommend it. I'll name it in the next comment because I've found that Google likes to hide the things I say.
Brave browser still works for now. Highly recommend. Their search engine is pretty meh... But the browser does what I need it to.
I once got an 30 second unskippable ad just to watch a 30 second video. Sigh.
I just started getting these long unskippable ads it's crazy especially when their like 10 ads in one video.
And yet I have seen multiple RUclips ads for YT ad blockers.
I don’t think I’ve consciously paid attention to a RUclips ad in my life
same, but i still don’t want them
The last that i paid attention to a youtube ad was 2019 and it was when they were uploading the entire lego movie as an ad for the second one
The only one ive actually paid attention to (because its funny) is AdVenture Communist lmao
@@southernbrain691And that's the thing. If the ads were of good quality and not annoying, no-one would care.
When I see spammed ads It makes me hate the product.
One thing that fills me with joy is no matter how much money RUclips and Google throws at the adblock issue, there will ALWAYS be someone who finds a way to block it. ALWAYS.
The greed of the big guy is weak against the frustration of the little guy
It's the piracy thing all over again. It doesn't matter how much DRM you throw at it, the DRM will be cracked. Just like the ads will be blocked.
Never underestimate the power of a software developer with too much free time
God bless your soul man, never stop making bangers. Can I get an amen!
I use Librewolf and Ublock... thanks to this video sponsor block as well...
I will never pay for Netflix, Prime, RUclips, etc... I'd rather not watch if they start to annoy me with ads... The problem, if they would use a moderate amount of ads, but today the internet without adblock is plain torture.
Hello, im a person that never understood ads to begin with. Im at a point now where i see an ad of a product and say to myself: "i will conciously never buy this product or use this service ever again".
Thats how much i hate ads. To me it seems nonsensicle and a waste of resources trying to force someone who clearly doesnt want to buy anything to watch an ad, only for them to still not buy it.
For me, it's not that I hate ads, it's that I hate crappy, uninspired, cookie cutter ads. And unfortunately, that's 99.9% of all ads out there.
And that's assuming the ads are actually relevant to me. If google is already harvesting data about my interests and watch habits, then can they at least make sure the ads are for something I actually care about? And not the constant spam of shitty mobile game ads that straight up lie to you?
Because there are people out there, that work differently than you and me. They *do* click on ads, they *do* buy some of the stuff that is advertised. Otherwise, ads would have been stopped looong ago, as there would have been *zero* value to the companies that buy ad-space from Google, so they would refuse to pay Google for the ad-space, and maintaining the ad-systems would have been pointless for Google.
The infrastructure behind this site, the development, the maintenance, the expansion and so on, *IS NOT FREE* . RUclips *HAS* to make money somehow. Unless you have some genious idea, that magically pays the billions it takes to build and run a global video-hosting site, with 800 million++ videos, easily accessible to billions of people 24/7?
@@DrakeKillah bro the guy said he didn't understand ads... spoken specifically from their perspective. Never at any point did they say anything objective and you're out here talking down to them. We not allowed to just have an opinion anymore?
@@monkaeyes3417 I wasn’t talking down to anyone, I was just pointing out why ads are a thing. Sorry you’re offended on others behalf, by someone just giving some facts. Where the fuck did I stop *anyone* what so ever from having an opinion?
@@DrakeKillah please read your second paragraph and how passive aggressive it is.
You used a rhetorical question as a counterpoint to them. Never is that done in a non-passive aggressive manner.
You CANNOT even see the news online without adblock…their ads should count as SA to your eyes.
a couple of months ago, I did something. I have no idea what but it worked. I even thought they realized this war was hurting them more than tolerating adblockers or not curating their ads.
I didn't use to have an adblock until like a year/ a year and a half ago. I was fine with ads on youtube, but recently I feel like the website has become borderline unusable with just how many ads there have been... I have friends who aren't really online and tech savy, and i was supried to see even THEY have an adblocker now. It seems that the experience has become so bad even avreage users are turning to these kinds of things.
I used to watch ads a lot more all the way through. (I enjoy the marketing aspect) First thing that started me skipping was a 3 hour lego movie ad playing at work.
What really got me was the 1 of 2. It changed the interaction. It was no longer "I'll let it play" but "If I don't click quick, I'll be forced to watch more ad". They added anxiety to press the skip button asap, which is now a habit.
I used to watch RUclips without any kind of adblock and was completely fine with it. It was when the volume and annoyance of the ads, double ads, countless mid video ads and everything google was doing to make the site completely unbearable that I switched it on. I would like to thank RUclips for introducing me to the concept of an adblocker.
The more people that use ad block the more ads they gotta give to normal users to make up lost money
@@hutch1010 whomp womp , sorry but im not gonna sit through ads that for whatever reason are louder in volume than the video im trying to watch, the annoyance of the ads, double ads, countless mid video ads, AND that one time where the ad yes it was AN AD was some channels hour long podcast.
@@hutch1010 only a matter of time before everyone switches if this keeps up person not using adblockers getting bombarded by ads would likely try to find ways to get rid of the annoyance either they leave the site or they find an adblocker thus the cycle continues essentially RUclips is shooting itself in the damn foot with this one.
I have adblock on my andriod tablet that works on the youtube app and have no idea why I didn't download it sooner
Back in 2020, The ADs were less worst, you do get the day where they show you the same car ad 2822189 times a day but it's pretty annoying.
I still remember that ads were displayed yellow on the youtube bar.
When I watch RUclips on Opera GX, I'm very willing to watch the ad because they're place right before the video starts, no more ads within the vids afterwards. Those ads are mostly silent and 5 seconds long in my case.