For context I’m in the US. The last time I used YouTube without an ad blocker, there were 2 ads back to back, and way too frequently. I tried watching on my PlayStation tonight, and not only are they more frequent, they’ve increased in quantity by 150%. It’s also very common for the last ad to last 2 minutes to over an hour long. What the actual fuck, why would anyone watch YouTube without an ad blocker at this point? It’s literally unwatchable

Edit: the amount of unsolicited advice in the comments is unreal. I don’t get ads on my phone or on desktop, I’m very aware of how to block them. I simply won’t watch YouTube on my PlayStation anymore. I’m not looking for suggestions, please stop with the recommendations.

    • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      43·
      6 months ago

      IDK why the hell it’s allowed, but a lot of times people will buy adspace and just put an entire video in it, or worse, a company buys the adspace and puts the entire pilot to a TV show in there. I’ve seen both things happen more than once. Who in their right mind clicks on a YouTube video, sees the pilot to a show they’ve never heard of or a random clickbait video and thinks “Oh, I wanna watch this!”

        • namingthingsiseasy@programming.devEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          The net worth of tech giants also needs a severe correction.

          Not just tech giants of course, pretty much all large >billion dollar companies need it too. But tech is a great place to start.

      • ares35@kbin.social
        9·
        6 months ago

        the first time i watched the lego movie it (the full film) was an ad played during the trailer for the second movie. and it (the movie) didn’t have ads in it.

        • Mog_fanatic@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          6 months ago

          This is wild haha I wonder if it was just someone trying to piss off the studios by popping that in there for free or something? I guess that way it’s guaranteed to never have ads for anyone, ad blocker or not.

        • snowe@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          We watched that ad too. Hilariously enough it was on a video for the trailer for Lego movie two or whatever.

      • 🐑🇸 🇭 🇪 🇪 🇵 🇱 🇪🐑@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        6 months ago

        The worst part about those is

        When the ad is actually something I want to watch, there is no way to open it as a seperate video. Once I click off it’s fucking gone forever. It’s such backwards design. The few times I have interest in an ad I can’t even properly check watch it!

      • ares35@kbin.social
        3·
        6 months ago

        the first time i watched the lego movie, it (the full feature) was an ad played during the trailer for the second movie–and it didn’t have any ads in it either.

        • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          They didn’t want you to spoil the first movie, so they made sure you had the chance to see it. That’s a hundred percent something LEGO would do.