YouTube viewers will soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on a popular app.

YouTube viewers will soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on a popular app.

  • Renat@szmer.infoEnglish
    9·
    7 hours ago

    Me on (android) TV. On PC I have ad blocker. On TV ads time is between 6 seconds and 1 minute. Sometimes ads contain AI slop. 💀

    • sircac@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      On TV I silenced them as they start and look elsewhere meanwhile… I find joy in training myself to be unable to consciously recognise at all what is ongoing till the video start

    • awake@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      9·
      6 hours ago

      Theres also the possibility to use a VPN and log in from Albania (I think) to avoid ads altogether because they’re not legal there.

      • 42Firehawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
        11·
        6 hours ago

        It is Albania. I will say that it’s more correct to say that YouTube chooses not to send ads to Albania, rather than Albania banning it.

        Albanians anti ad laws state that ads are required to be safe for children, with the platform being responsible for failure… So Google is not spending the effort to make the ads safe.

        • awake@lemmy.wtfEnglish
          2·
          1 hour ago

          I didn’t know it is the other way around (Albania ban vs. YouTube not playing ads)! Thanks for elaborating.