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Corporations are not your Friends: A Story in Two Parts (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I'm even wondering how people can use it as it is without ad blockers or clients like newpipe

I tend to use my TV and don't have a PiHole. I usually watch 20-45 minute long videos and, for some reason, YouTube actually puts fewer ads on longer videos. Get like maybe two, 30 second ad blocks in a ~25 minute video. But then I'll get three, 90 second unskippable ad blocks in a 1:30 video. 🤦‍♂️

IDK why they don't just have it only show an ad every X minutes, regardless of it being the same video or not. Or what about ads on Shorts? I haven't seen a single ad the few times I've been binging shorts.

There are also videos and entire channels that aren't monetized at all that never get ads on them. Like when people put a pirated film on there it doesn't get taken down, it just has no ads.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Probably because shorter videos get more views

But I'm only guessing...

[–] spankinspinach 2 points 1 week ago

This seems likely to me. The goal is to get it in front of as many eyes as possible, and ppl looking for a quick dopamine hit aren't typically pulling up videos over 5 mins long. Probably looks better in their stats when they charge absurd prices to advertisers too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Some of the shorts are ads themselves

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I blocked YT ads on my Samsung tv using TizenTube. It's fucking great.