Youtube Sucks

[NPBlue]

Anyone else notice the massive recent increase in ads when viewing Youtube? It's fucking awful. Worse than watching commercial TV.

It's recently to the point that a 1 hour Youtube viewing session mandates about 25 minutes of unskippable commercial content (or maybe more).

With any luck whatsoever another platform will emerge to offer Youtube competition. Fucking waste of my time to watch commercials for 25%+ for the content I'm interested in.

No. I watch a lot of stuff on Youtube and I use Brave as my web browser, which cuts out all the crap at source.

Sometimes I use Google if I don't mind the content provider earning a fraction of a penny and with adblocker installed, there are a couple of ads at the start in a foreign language I don't understand due to my VPN having me located in Denmark or somehere, then it's uninterrupted for the rest of the video.

 

[BlueMoonAcrossThePond]

No. I watch a lot of stuff on Youtube and I use Brave as my web browser, which cuts out all the crap at source.

Sometimes I use Google if I don't mind the content provider earning a fraction of a penny and with adblocker installed, there are a couple of ads at the start in a foreign language I don't understand due to my VPN having me located in Denmark or somehere, then it's uninterrupted for the rest of the video.

It seems that how much Youtube obviously sucks depends on where you live or if you're willing to employ a VPN. Perhaps I should invest in a VPN.

That said, the vanilla experience in the USA (and I guess in the UK) is that Youtube sucks - so many ads - and tricks previously working to bypass ads, no longer work.

 

[grunge]

It seems that how much Youtube obviously sucks depends on where you live or if you're willing to employ a VPN. Perhaps I should invest in a VPN.

That said, the vanilla experience in the USA (and I guess in the UK) is that Youtube sucks - so many ads - and tricks previously working to bypass ads, no longer work.

Firefox with adblocker. Not had an advert on YouTube for years.

I literally have Firefox only for YouTube at this point and the odd bit of dev work.

 

[BlueMoonAcrossThePond]

Firefox with adblocker. Not had an advert on YouTube for years.

I literally have Firefox only for YouTube at this point and the odd bit of dev work.

Cheers.

I mostly watch Youtube on Apple TV... so VPN would appear to be my only recourse at this point.

 

[PragueBlue]

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Thanks for that. Downloaded it and it seems very smooth and quick. I've been using Safari plus adblocker for the last 20 years but this seems like a big improvement.

 

[stonerblue]

Thanks for that. Downloaded it and it seems very smooth and quick. I've been using Safari plus adblocker for the last 20 years but this seems like a big improvement.

Gonna give this a go

 

[city5189]

Don't know if this still works but when you get a long ad on yt click on the information icon and click stop seeing ad. I takes you back to the video you was watching.

 

[Scottyboi]

Don't know if this still works but when you get a long ad on yt click on the information icon and click stop seeing ad. I takes you back to the video you was watching.

They stopped that work around.

 

[stonerblue]

Desktop mode is less ads I think.