Having to wait with a black screen before the video starts is completely acceptable to me.
Having to watch Ads is not.
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2025
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I have revanced on my phone and adblock on my laptop so I don't see ads on youtube on them, but I can't get rid of the youtube ads on my smart TV so I'm forced to deal with the ads for now... and the contrast shows just how insufferable youtube has become. They're so fucking aggressive with the ads now. I'm starting to get a full minute of unskippable ads for a 2 minute meme video. It's completely ridiculous. Not only that but the number of skippable ads, short ads, or videos with just one ad are quickly decreasing. Youtube is destroying itself.
I pay for YouTube premium so that I can leave the app and listen to videos. I still get ads even though I’m paying. I don’t think there’s a single surefire way to avoid them.
Get Revanced or Newpipe or something like that. You get the same benefits you're paying for, plus many that you aren't, and it's all for free. Not only that, but you're not giving you're money to Google.
USE PORNHUB, Start uploading your content there.
A previous version of uBlock Origin (1.64.1b4) seems to work perfectly on Firefox, just in case.
Seems like its already happening.
Yeah, for at least 6 months.
Now you'll actually get a pop-up claiming "click here to find out why" in regards to the slowness.
I've gotten that before too
I was paying for a whole family (premium). But I will not pay and send money to a fascist state. We've cancelled all our us based services.
I never paid and have been using NewPipe for the past 6+ years.
Only thing I'm getring at the moment is waiting up to like 30s until the video starts, I'il take that over an ad that long any day.
Nebula's getting better and I spend more time there now than on YouTube. Happy that YouTube is working hard to encourage this transition.
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meh, its still not inconvenient enough to pay 10+ dollars a month. The state of adverts online is so egregious that I would probably sooner stop watching Youtube than pay or put up with ads.
Don't care, still better than the ads.
I'll sit for 2 minutes in front of a black screen and it'll still be better than 45 seconds of ads.
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Dang, thanks. I read the post, thought it wasn't happening to me, and I just realized that the start of some videos is being throttled. The more ya know 🌈
They will never be happy with how much money they squeeze out of it. When people are watching videos that are 99% ads and the content is limited to two alternating pixels they will still find a way to further optimize their profit-taking. Nothing is ever good enough for the hyper-capitalist; product managers are a disease.
Eventually they'll start demanding you run their crypto-miners in order to watch a video.
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