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.

  • bigbrowncommie69 [any]English
    4•3 hours ago

    If they made YouTube Premium a reasonable price I’d be more than happy to pay and I’m sure many people would to. I don’t need YouTube Music, offer me a cheaper package without it. They’re leaving so much money on the table and basically inviting people to used Vanced and shit instead.

  • yeehawEnglish
    10•4 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.

  • @infinitevalenceEnglish
    5•5 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.

    • @Auster@lemm.eeEnglish
      2•7 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.

  • @archonet@lemy.lolEnglish
    10•7 hours ago

    literally have not had to skip a youtube ad in years, because I use ReVanced and AdNauseam like a sane person.

    I’m going to be sad when YouTube dies, and all that collective knowledge and content either goes poof or is haphazardly, incompletely transferred to some “new thing”, whenever that is – but I won’t be that sad.

    • Fake4000English
      10•7 hours ago

      I started using YTDLP to download the shows I care about and have them saved offline.

      I used to watch a show that got taken down. The show came back online few months later with heavy modifications to remove any potential DMCA footage from it.

  • Wait A MinuteEnglish
    7•6 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
      4•4 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 MinuteEnglish
        1•27 minutes 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