YouTube's Summer Adpocalypse!
Added 2020-07-09 20:00:02 +0000 UTCHere we go again! Another Frant about YouTube going and tilting over the apple cart. Yes, you'll be seeing more ads this summer - and forever after that - but not here (I hope) as I am doing my best to stay away from the pressures to bloat all my videos with ads and junk. Enjoy!
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Do you work for youtube by any chance? #askingforafriend hahaha!
Mike Hughes
2020-09-02 17:28:15 +0000 UTCMe too. but no ads with Premium. I only use the browser on a PC/laptop or the YouTube app on an iPhone.
Bill Kerr
2020-07-12 06:47:27 +0000 UTCI subscribed to YouTube Premium (Red) and "normally" have no ads . But some weeks ago they had a glitch and on Android (Phone) and TV some ads appeared. I know that not everyone is willing to pay that or can afford it. I stay with it (and my family) as long as YouTube serves me the content well and without ads. And I hope you get some revenue of it too.
2020-07-10 14:39:48 +0000 UTCI watch YouTube both in a well-defended browser and on Android TV, and holy crap, the ads have been really horrible on Android TV lately! So the takeaway here is that it's only going to get worse. Well, that sucks. Maybe I'll just have to start watching exclusively on a browser. Advertising is poison.
Circuitmike
2020-07-10 14:03:51 +0000 UTCI'd second that to get yourself away from being so beholden to YouTube. Dave Jones on EEVBlog raves about it. I watch his channel entirely on LBRY now. He says he makes a little revenue off it as well which is a nice plus.
2020-07-10 13:36:22 +0000 UTCGet yourself on LBRY Fran. You can sync your channel to YouTube easily. Not as a replacement but as a backup, and for those overly aggressive and unfair copyright claims!
Colin Jones
2020-07-10 11:28:23 +0000 UTCI watch via the Android app on my smart TV device, so no ad-block available (I think). YouTube premium is starting to get more and more attractive - because the ads are REALLY getting annoying...
2020-07-10 11:01:44 +0000 UTCThe ads suck, mid-roll or not, but I'm willing to tolerate them in order to watch excellent content like FranLab. The YouTube infrastructure must be hugely expensive to build and maintain.
2020-07-10 07:45:32 +0000 UTCSeems to me that they put the creators last, yet without the creators there would be no youtube. As a viewer I find mid-stream ads incredibly annoying and a real put-off. And as a potential creator this sort of hassle really puts me off starting a small channel.
2020-07-10 07:34:00 +0000 UTCYouTube + Google = Big Brother. Bless you AdBlock.
Rick Lett
2020-07-09 23:37:39 +0000 UTCWTF! Balance my A..
William Nimmo
2020-07-09 21:18:39 +0000 UTCGoogle are just interested in making more money for themselves aren't they?
Dr Andy Hill
2020-07-09 20:40:47 +0000 UTCGenerally I watch via the YouTube app on a tablet and I don't think it is possible to block ads from this, though I may be wrong. But I am surprised that there is any intelligence, human or otherwise, behind the placement of in video ads. Based on how jarring and interrupting they are I would have guessed their placement was entirely random.
David Peaker
2020-07-09 20:37:18 +0000 UTC
