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Today I was reminded how bad YouTube ads are (jlai.lu)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I watched a Warframe (game) YouTube video on the Steam integrated browser, without beeing connected to my account and Holly s* it was horrible.

In a 14 minutes video, I got 5 ads. 1 (or more skippable once) at the beginning, 1 during the first half of the video, 2 during the second half, and 1 at the end.

All were skippable after 5 sec.

2 were close together at about 1 min interval during the second half of the video.

But that is not the only issue. 4 of those ads (not the last one at the end), were Israeli hate/war anti-hamas propaganda.

I consider these ads horrible and they should not be allowed in my opinion.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

This is why I avoid the steam in-game web browser like t͟h͟e͟ P͟L͟A͟G͟U͟E͟

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Reminds me the first time watching a movie on TV in the UK in year 2000. 4 long ass commercial breaks and... News in the middle.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (8 children)

I just found a new app called Grayjay, it combines all the platforms, haven't used it much, but it doesn't have ads, or at least is not supposed to

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Grayjay is awesome. Found out about from Louis Rossmann, I think he's involved in the project