YouTube Ads Are Getting Insane and I Hate It.

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0:00 - Intro
01:05 - tHaNkS tO oUr SpOnSoR
1:43 - How does Ad work
3:50 - KZbin's Automated Tools Suck
5:40 - Various Potential Solutions and why they suck
10:43 - Conclusion

[@GiantGrantGames]

KZbin's Automated system wanted to put 5 midroll ads in this 12 minute video by the way. Absolutely incredible.

[@Eeddtg]

And that's why I use an ad blocker all the time

[@devonoltmanns5453]

It’s becoming more and more money oriented unfortunately, many KZbinrs are going that way too so they don’t do anything

[@joejoemyo]

Machines don't speak irony

[@joelsalyer5544]

Dude this was the most based fucking video about ads I've ever seen. Thanks for peeling back the curtain a bit I didn't even know about adblock and google in 2023, gonna have to use firefox I guess.

[@jfried6754]

When I watch youtube on my TV and can't have an adblocker running the ads I see are really random as well. Absolutely no relation to my interests. It makes me wonder whether online advertising is one big charade and a lot of tech companies are doomed the moment it gets revealed it doesn't work anywhere near as well as thought.

[@silcrow1820]

I was totally against using adblocker. Then, one day, i was forced to watch a 20 seconds unskippable ad for a 6 second clip. It was my breaking point

[@spongedog0013]

I went to ad blocker after getting a 3 minute unksippable ad. That was back in 2017 and when my ad blocker got booted off the site last week I was shocked at the amount of ads being constantly shoved in my face vs the very few ads I would get back in 2017.

[@henryjohnson-ville3834]

Seriously! Videos under a minute can’t have ads, make this an official rule KZbin! I too experienced that where a funny, dumb 12-second video had an ad. 😑

[@jaymo7703]

I started using ad blocker when youtube started demonitizing creators for no reason. I never looked back. Now, I would assert that it isn't safe to browse the internet in general without an ad blocker.

[@boomertunes9924]

I was never against adblock because I always found it annoying to use the internet in general while being heckled by ten thousand ads per square inch. KZbin used to be largely hobbyists sharing something they're passionate about. Now the focus is on making money. It's not necessarily bad to want to try and make some income from a thing you enjoy, but most of youtube these days just feels so soulless (just like the million ads YT wants to force upon everyone). Also, I just angry when I see most ads, so avoiding all of them is just better for my well-being.

[@OctEddie]

My moment was when the ads started to get minutes long and became straight up scams and snake oil products.

[@skittslol1407]

KZbin is becoming the TV style program we all came here to escape.

[@kharikhy-ree2242]

This comment. 🎉 Yeah I cut the cable in 2015 because I hate commercials and excessive ads, Streaming and KZbin were suppose to be the escape. But Big Corp found us. It's pure predatory and invasive.

[@Katie_Kat81]

if we want tv and commercials/ads we will pay for cable lolz how stupid, greedy, and selfish is the youtube ceo seriously.

[@TieDyedShawn]

@@kharikhy-ree2242 I hate tv because of the ads. I have my own channel and I don't care about the money. Just want people to enjoy there lives. Have a good day. KZbin even blocked me using adblock for a bit and then they gave up. Have a good day.

[@ajcalvo95]

Regrettably, that's how the business goes. Back in the day, they invented cable TV as an ad-free alternative (just like YT premium): you pay extra, no ads for you.

[@rainingdreams]

They're actually becoming worse. At least when we watch tv, the commercial breaks are very intentional and don't just cut off the show in the middle of a sentence. Plus we can just change the channel during commercial breaks. Or even fast forward through them if you recorded or paused it

[@Gentleman_Gibbs]

Disabled adblocker for a few days when the three video strike thing rolled in. I was shocked by how aggressive YT ads have got. Not to mention how low quality most of these ads are, some are outright scams. Having KZbin on in the background, I realised I was 5 minutes in on an unskippable ad, so I could revisit a 30 second segment on a tutorial video. Which I had to watch another ad for for skipping through the video. Mental!

[@sundaedog]

if you use brave and ignore the crypto BS, it actually has a really good adblocker, even going up to skipping ads on Spotify. I would recommend it if you only use yt or Spotify for that background music

[@anonion8755]

Having to watch two 15 second unskippable ads for a 3 second clip

[@angrydiver_4220]

There is a modded app client that is add free can t name it due to shadowbanning comments, so try to find it on google you won t regret.

[@sadsworth4605]

U block ori

[@jpraise6771]

AdBlock plus on your desktop.

[@gustavovargas8716]

This is what happens when a an app doesnt have competition They will simply do wharever they want, without filters and low consequences

[@MCArt25]

YT doesn't have competition because there is no money to be made off hosting tons of amateur videos. The only way it makes revenue at all is by enshittification

[@Djuntas]

@@MCArt25 Nothing will ever compete with youtube. Twitter, reddit and twitch...What do they all have in common? They make no money. You cant compete with google or facebook cause they take 95% of add money. To big to fail.

[@chir0pter]

@@MCArt25 i'm not sure about that any more. KZbin gets trillions of views, advertisers need to be here, plus there's the personal data to sell. If KZbin really tries to be cable TV then someone else will spring up. Already Twitter is looking to move content creators over.

[@DolusVulpes]

​​@@MCArt25if that was the case youtube wouldnt have been around as long as it has, since the aggressive monetization isnt even close to nearly as old as the site is

[@SeenGod]

how about the fact that KZbin will demonetize some channels for not being ad-friendly, and yet they’ll still show ads on there 😵‍💫

[@fragglegoth]

And the ads themselves don't abide by the ad-friendly rules.

[@TheManWhoErasedHisNane]

@@fragglegoth Ah YT being hypocritical.

[@ripwednesdayadams]

I hate using KZbin. I don’t want to support them at all but that’s there’s no other good option for long form content.

[@deebea6364]

They also don’t screen their own ads properly... like KZbin will play straight up scam ads or things that should not be on KZbin... I feel like KZbin probably doesn’t pay creators properly for google ads either as KZbin is a part of google, so I feel like they just through their own ads in when advertisers aren’t buying up as much

[@mikepartridge6396]

@@ripwednesdayadams you're not supporting them if you use adblock

[@bluelotus.society]

The worst part is getting punished with random mid-roll ads for skipping around the video - even if you're just rewinding it by 60 seconds because you got distracted and didn't pay that much attention.

[@carsonhunt4642]

Yea I went full Adblock cuz of it. Tough on IOS but there’s ways to do it. I don’t even feel bad for content creators anymore anyways, 90% stretch their videos out on purpose for extra time for extra ads. Find I usually watch less than half of a video these days. KZbin has gone downhill since the adpocolypse a decade ago.

[@Fordan43]

@@carsonhunt4642 Adpocolypse lol, that's gonna be my catchphrase, I don't know what for but it will.

[@PeterCamberwick]

Yup, that is bloody annoying.

[@isaacshepard1474]

It hurts me emotionally

[@sena9245]

I just couldn't stand the ads anymore, I enjoy using the app on my phone and my tablet, had to go premium :/

[@stephenblessed92]

I love it when an ad , for something I'm never going to buy, interrupts a music video I'm watching. Really enhances the experience.

[@Average_Internet_DMC_420]

adblock

[@TheBaggyT]

Firefox with adblock ultimate. Works a charm. No youtube ads for years!

[@RumpleVonStiltskin735]

I think my breaking point was listening to a playlist while driving wondering ”Just how long IS this add?” pulling over and discovering I was 5 minutes in to an add that was 2 hours 41 minutes long. I could not believe what I was seeing there.

[@dakotalake9084]

I found a way not to have any ads..... If I say what it is, KZbin will know so do some research for yourself.....

[@sherpajones]

This video has aged very, VERY well.

[@kholdstare90]

You know it's aged incredibly well when the only "incorrect" part is the price for premium being WAY lower than current.

[@TimorDa]

Yeah I thought it's old a few weeks lol but yeah the things are actually much worse now

[@KaspYAR]

KZbin premium, in Australia, is $17 ($16.99)

[@neogivxapwntcpaa]

Ublock origin is best

[@jermfanaccount]

@@KaspYAR is that per month? if so there's no way i'm spending nearly 20 bucks on youtube per month when i already have an adblocker get outta here

[@pazma1]

One thing I hate recently is that there's a specific ad for an online casino that I've told YT to stop showing me and tagging it as inappropriate. I've done this over 100 times, and I'm still being shown that same ad constantly. If I were someone who has a gambling addiction or something, that could be a really bad advert to show me. KZbin doesn't care. Google is scum.

[@patrickhaley1312]

Oh yeah, that has never worked and likely never will.

[@lamidene8139]

Gambling, fake medical advice, finance scams, adult games, youtube ads are becoming the same dreck you see at the bottom of clickbait news blogs

[@spicywaffle_]

yeah, that feature also doesn't work with some KZbin channels, if they rake in enough money KZbin will ignore your "don't recommend this channel" and they will pop up in your recommended

[@Palmtop_User]

I dont like reeses cups. Just something about them, even looking at them, makes my teeth feel weird. No matter how many times i told youtube to stop showing me their ads theyd persist. Not only that it was one of the ads theyd show repeatedly (think several times in an hour). Thats genuinely a big reason as to why i ad block

[@stooglesgoogles7246]

I’m tired of getting porn ads on youtube (i’m not joking, they show up under videos and it’s horrifying)

[@ninawinchester5125]

i miss when youtube ads were just a small overlay box on the bottom of the video, that would either disappear after 20 seconds or when you click on the x to close it

[@dakotalake9084]

The worst is when you listen to a wonderful meditation music, eyes closed, relaxed and BAM, a stupid loud ad starts......

[@trevorwylie5882]

There is a hint of evil in youtube

[@sarahneels4331]

I know right! How else are we supposed to listen to meditative or background music without ads interrupting it?? It’s not fair we can’t listen to it in peace

[@dakotalake9084]

@@sarahneels4331 I found a way to solve it. Get a VPN and set it to Albania or another country where KZbin doesn't run ads 🙂

[@dakotalake9084]

@@sarahneels4331 hint....get a VPN

[@joelhatterini6392]

I remember a couple years back I tried turning off adblock to support people I watch, immediately regretted it, and turned it right back on.

[@FainthedCherry]

Same boat. :(

[@georgehunda649]

yep

[@anstupid4093]

You are literally part of the problem

[@beatrute2677]

Yep.

[@dugglinieduardo2690]

lol same didn't realize how bad it got until I tried it

[@Lukepuke311]

There was a time where double ads didn’t exist and you only couldn’t skip ads under ~7 seconds

[@creativitysubs9935]

As it should be. Nobody changes their mind about a product after 5 seconds in. You only annoy your potential customers. And no, I will never ever buy from gilette, rolls-royce, and some other personal grudges.

[@1000-THR_Benjamin]

@@creativitysubs9935 yeah, after 70 gilette ads i wont buy your fucking shaving tool

[@memunist5765]

@@creativitysubs9935 After I started using adblock on all platfroms those grudges quickly dissappeared with me. It really is nice and far, far more enjoyable

[@Yum_Yum_Delicious_Cum]

@@creativitysubs9935 Bro I thought I was reading my own comment, Fuck Gillete

[@Yum_Yum_Delicious_Cum]

@@memunist5765 is there adblock for mobile?

[@JRS06]

What's worse is that they just select the same five ads to show you over and over again, and it's rarely ever for something you actually want. You just get sick of hearing the same ads over and over again. Now you can't actually watch a video for more than 2 minutes without an ad interrupting it, and it's a nightmare during long videos. Even worse is the fact you can get ads longer than the video you want to watch, e.g. a 40 second ad for a 3 second video. I tried an ad blocker in the hopes that it would improve the situation, but then youtube got petty and told me I just flat out couldn't watch any videos whatsoever until is disabled the blocker.

[@3twibles4sweetrevenge]

Literally. The same 5 ads get repeated every 5 minutes its insanity

[@tombuilder1475]

the sheer amount of scam ads is what annoys me!

[@yuridanylko]

Number

[@bobbydirtamiyer2151]

You know what grinds my gears? The hour long ads. I'd like to be able to set my phone down and work without walking over to it and skipping an ad every 3 mins.

[@TheJingles007]

Sorry, daddy google says you need to pay their fee if you don’t want to be minorly annoyed consistently

[@gay4pay882]

Ads arent hour long

[@bobbydirtamiyer2151]

@@gay4pay882 Your "aren't" needs an apostrophe or it isn't a word. You've completely left out the word "an" and you're missing a period at the end. If you're going to troll people, at least form a complete thought. p.s. - yes they are

[@gay4pay882]

@@bobbydirtamiyer2151 umm im NOT effing GAY wtf ? an ad not ower lonng 😂🤣

[@spidi500]

@@gay4pay882 Your brain is as smooth as butter bruh

[@nikoninen]

A single mid roll ad that's 10x louder than any actual YT video is infinitely worse than a sponsored 1minute segment that I can easily skip just going a minute ahead.

[@hunterlawrence3573]

Exactly

[@deseuryderia]

especially with chapters. youtubers who mark their sponsored segments in their chapters so they’re easier to skip are getting first dibs to heaven

[@michaelb4538]

You know they make the ads 70 - 90% louder than the video you're watching incase you've nodded off after a hard day at work. How dare you be tired we have products you dont want to sell you.

[@LegendStormcrow]

Yup...

[@thefrogggy100]

@@michaelb4538 Is there evidence to support this claim

[@darshil2317]

I have actually developed an immunity to ads. Everytime I see an ad I completely zone out and could not tell you what the ad was about let alone the name of the brand. Maybe its because I have been exposed to so much ads that its all white noise to me

[@Average_Internet_DMC_420]

adblock, helps to not waste your precious limited time on this god forsaken planet

[@darshil2317]

@@Average_Internet_DMC_420 Gives me more time for edging

[@ildikoedit9110]

I have been using youtube since 2006 and I don't remember I have ever got interested in any of the ads or clicked any of them let alone buying anything.... even if the ads are 'personalised' by the algorhythm...

[@-.--Y..-U...S..-U..-.F]

​@@ildikoedit9110nahhh im insterented in all that scam ads. An ad promoting an app that can give me 1000$ per day by just watching youtube videos. I have to click them. I need to click all of them.

[@silver1407]

​@@Average_Internet_DMC_420precisely

[@osaabd390]

The USA is just a crazy place. Where I live KZbin isn’t allowed to show you more than one ad at the beginning of the video, and that’s by law.

[@johntracy72]

We need that desperately

[@ltecheroffical]

We need that a lot

[@OrigionalCigarette]

I really hate that youtube gives no regulations to its ads, yet is extremely regulates what youtubers can do.

[@VampKink12]

A KZbinr can put 15 ads for 5 minutes and only two of those ads will be seen.

[@lunaredelvour2972]

I remember when Saberspark did a whole video essay on this, focusing on mobile game ads. I'm still infuriated at the thought

[@bensmith8682]

One's paying.

[@pontosanaz6485]

Becouse, one is paying, and the other is getting payed

[@ExplodedMrT]

Its because many youtubers let themselves get stepped on when stuff like this happens, so many times I've seen a youtuber make a video or tweet that youtube is screwing them over, but their actions to deal with it are to just sit there and hope youtube "sees the error or their ways", because most youtubers can't afford to sue the platform or don't want the trouble even if they could afford the effort. The only way youtube will improve is if a proper exodus happened where the big youtubers like markiplier, mr beast, ninja, Marques Brownlee, penguinz0, etc. move to another platform which would encourage the smaller youtubers to move as well.

[@TheHonoredMadman]

KZbin be playing full documentaries as ads if you don't skip. Its insane

[@vwatlas]

the amount of times I've fallen asleep and woken up to hour+ long documentaries and shit is insane 😩

[@sharonefee1426]

First time hearing this. The longest I had was... 10 minutes? And it was one time

[@andrewgrant6516]

I've woken up to two hour Trump propaganda. And also ISIS recruitment videos. Trust me, they both fuck up your recommendations for months. Never enable autoplay.

[@PerfectProtagonist]

@@andrewgrant6516 I will never understand why it's on by default.

[@khumokwezimashapa2245]

Bruh legit. I saw a 9 hour ad once. It was ridiculous

[@yvdiycshcuobjsjobfgvuvihd]

i got a 20 second unskippable ad for this video

[@JAYDEE-007]

Sign up for KZbin premium and you won't get ads.

[@yvdiycshcuobjsjobfgvuvihd]

@@JAYDEE-007 not sure why i'd pay just to not have ads shoved in my face

[@user-xf5fq4yy2i]

@@JAYDEE-007 "buy youtube premium" -KZbin employee

[@LegendWolfA]

KZbin employee spotted Yt premium is waaay too overpriced. Id rather just save for 3 months and use that money to buy myself a brand new video game

[@ciara2892]

What gets me is lifesaving videos like how to perform cpr and sleep videos getting ads before and during.

[@Colin12475]

Money means more to youtube than human lives.

[@BaIaho]

I once got an entire Chinese movie for an ad, literally 1h50m long. Shit was insane.

[@niaralosusa]

…similar happened to me recently. Selected a 12 minute KZbin video and a 92 minute movie/ad came up.

[@unexpected2475]

I feel that. I remember when Vice used to put out entire documentaries as ads, probably around 10 years ago. Thankfully they were skippable, but they were pretty inexplicable.

[@moinsen117]

​@@divinelightshineshut up

[@Foxthatisaplush]

dude, this is the youtube comments section. your gonna see this everywhere.@@divinelightshine

[@AverageDunce]

I can tell that somebody got their social credits

[@iBoujin]

The removal of the yellow tick indicating mid roll ads was the most infuriating change to me. Being jumped by ads with 0 warning is the absolute worst.

[@TheTber123]

Ad jump scare

[@mimi-fm7hz]

Idk if it’s still there but they added a 3 second countdown until ads at one point, so useless and it looked like the skip ad button so confusing as well.

[@cameronwilsey9334]

@@mimi-fm7hz I get that on PC but not mobile

[@iBoujin]

@@mimi-fm7hz Not on mobile. Admittedly use adblock on PC so not sure, but I know it does the countdown on TV apps.

[@eg-draw]

Especially when you are in the middle of the asmr video half asleep 👍👍👍

[@jackhazardous4008]

I can literally detect when a youtuber is about to speak about their sponsor and skip forward. However I keep noticing these sponsors getting longer and longer. Like 5 years ago maybe it'd be a 20 second shoutout but now these sponsorships are regularly taking up not only 90 seconds of the video, but they're also placed in the video specifically to take over the preview you get while hovering over a video. I know because skipping 30 seconds used to be enough. Then they made these ads longer, so I skip forward another 30 seconds. They keep getting longer

[@3twibles4sweetrevenge]

What i think is nuts is when they have a 2:30 ad in a 10 minute video like holy fuck dude what are you doing 😂

[@Raysilly]

i got an adroll that was FOUR ADS LONG. two long ones, one short one, and on around 16 seconds long. this is insane.

[@f.d.5173]

I don't see why companies think forcing us to watch their crap would convince us to buy their product. More often then not, the people I'm around agree that if they get a harassing ad, they'll purposely NOT consume that company's stuff.

[@jacobturner4815]

Ah, but you HAVE heard of us.... Repetition was proven effective a long time ago for influencing silly human minds. If you are bored and want to try a new game, you may go browse the app store for a long time filtering past all the stuff you already tried or doesn't look appealing.. but eventually you will be lazy and search for a thing you have seen and looked passably interesting. Or you will see ads for easy cooking so often you will eventually decide you are unreasonable to just assume it is a scam, and that introductory pricing is reasonable, isn't it? Or a friend will mention they are looking for X thing you have never used... but you do know ONE name of such a product, and you do want to help your friend, right? Surely if they advertise that much, they must be good enough to be popular and profitable, so it is a decent option? Right...?

[@jzero4813]

Because you're all so selfish and f'd up that your conscience and morals are not enough to make you pay for something you use and enjoy and that requires the dedicated and sustained effort of a huge collective of hard-working humans to deliver to you. Content creators aren't your personal slaves. Why should all those people work their butt off every single day to deliver content to you that you insist you deserve to watch absolutely for free? In fact, why aren't you making me a sandwich right now? Jerk...

[@spacebassist]

@@jacobturner4815 ease off on the misanthropy dude, lmao. What you're saying isn't impossible but some of us have standards and uphold our values and refuse to engage with this shit Also who the hell has played a mobile game in 10 years that wouldn't fit the category of "silly human"?

[@ixl911ixl]

@@spacebassist Unfortunately, he’s 100% correct. Our feeble monkey brains do not have the ability to overcome the power of basic repetition and brand recognition. Maybe on an individual person by person level, but as a collective? No. We’re fucked. Slaves to our advertisement overlords.

[@olesvren2906]

In addition I get mostly completely irrelevant ads for me. I am a male, and for a period i got lots of ads for menstruation products. I have also gotten a lot of ads for what seems like pyramid scheem, or general "get rich quick" scams

[@MrxD-cg5xs]

The thing that killed conventional TV for me was the amount of ads. So with YT doing everything in its power to force more and more ads on you, it’s setting itself up for that exact same fate. Only reason I’m still here is the fact that YT got a monopoly and there is nowhere else to go - for now at least.

[@fatcat1250]

The thing that killed conventional TV was youtube. With nothing in the horizon to replace youtube, even if it shoots itself on the foot enough to blast the whole planet it's standing on, it'll still be alive and kicking people with ads.

[@TripleBarrel06]

Poor DailyMotion, how could you do this to him?

[@PetrSkalicky]

Jesus I don't have ads in any of my videos and cost me that only ~6$. Get over it

[@talltroll7092]

If YT sufficiently offends its' userbase, they will go elsewhere, and the place most of them go will become the "new YT"... until the sweet, sweet ad money becomes overwhelmingly important to them, too

[@atlas_19]

@@PetrSkalicky Sorry that not everybody is in a place to pay for that. Not to mention most people watching KZbin are probably teens and students who are financially dependant on their families and can't just go ahead and say "Can we get YT Premium, there are too many ads.".

[@zwiftingwithdemonhunter]

I'm so sick of YT ads. If all ads were skipable It wouldn't be so bad, but it appears they are going to unskipable more and more. Just an hour ago, I started a video that had two pre-roll ads, the first one unskipable and 15 seconds long. The second one was 1:45 long and skipable, which I did, obviously. What was frustrating was the video was only about six minutes long and they shoved another set of ads in around the three minute mark. And they wonder why people use ad blockers.

[@Wayte13]

My favorite thing is when KZbin saves my place at the end of a video I watched. So I click, get an ad. Then manually go back to the beginning, and get another ad.

[@hoenotjade]

KZbin has officially removed the “Stop seeing this ad” option and now all ads are unskipable. I swear KZbin gets worse every year

[@mctripleA]

It still exists on mobile (though I feel like the block ad function is completely broken for shorts ads as when I blocked an ad for stupid ai shit it nonstop shoved the ads in my face for like a week)

[@pama1040]

even the minute long ones

[@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor]

uBlock Origin and KZbin ReVanced are free. Don't let the time vampires anally penetrate you, join the epic system.

[@monkegaming5091]

I remember getting a 1 hour long ad (no joke) imagine if i didnt have skip option back then

[@gt8200-0]

I hope one day a better alternative to KZbin becomes mainstream. KZbin was nice in its earlier years but it's time for a replacement.

[@UsedBubblehead]

Something I find surprising is how few people seem to remember that you used to be able to listen to KZbin videos with your mobile device's screen off. I'm forever bitter about them removing this feature particularly and selling it back to the users as I used it all the time back in the day. I wish more people talked about this sort of stuff whenever Premium gets mentioned because its absolutely infuriating and scummy.

[@WhyYoutubeWhy]

yeah thisn was retarded like wtf does it change

[@luke4502]

YES! I've never heard anyone else mention this. While this is a small example, the fact that technology was ever not oppressive will be lost to the sands of time... or more likely, deliberately memory-holed. It's sad as hell.

[@0grey0]

Fr I was just thinking about this today man, fuck google and their greed

[@doofus9007]

newpipe solves

[@Popthebop]

Pssss There's a way, Well on iOS there is. if you pl@y the VIDEO @nd swipe out, you can play without premium. You kinda have to fiddle around until you figure it out but it's very possible possible, I do it all the time! On god if KZbin sees this and changes it I'll actually throw them in the trash, I'm on my Witts end with my beloved/hated hellsite that is KZbin. I'll actually move to Vinmeio, at this point. or go back to live tv, after 5 years.

[@marichat9332]

i noticed how there were always 2 ads before most videos and they were both 30 seconds and sometimes unskippable. i knew something was different

[@stikkerpaper]

when the ads are strategically placed before the video climax 😒

[@AdamBorseti]

Watching KZbin without an ad blocker is basically the same as watching TV now. There's occasionally some shows between the commercials.

[@anonyshinki]

Native ads being interrupted by KZbin ads!

[@lulu....]

WORSE than TV

[@supernovero]

I was trying to watch an episode of the virginian with my father in law (never seen it before and that episode is now one of my favorite pieces of television) but it was hell to watch. The episodes are just over half an hour but it's hour long block for just one bc they play 20 minutes of ads every so often. It was grueling, and they weren't even natural ad breaks, you could tell most of them were edited. Only so many times they can try to sell us Medicare supplement programs

[@marielcarey4288]

@@supernovero the cable TV experience. I'm amazed my parents still put up with it for so many years

[@zoruafox7512]

@@lulu.... no no no. You can always still skip adds by reporting them.

[@s.m.9871]

I’m gonna be honest with you, I’d rather watch an in-video sponsorship than a KZbin midroll ad any day of the week

[@alicedelarge]

yeah, at least some people make it entertaining.

[@ianpfeifer3284]

Same

[@felipeandmichelleshorts]

@@alicedelarge and at least the creator is getting paid more fairly

[@mr.starrydoesbeyblade]

At least you can skip through a sponser

[@generalcjg]

I myself like the in video sponsors that are hilarious to watch, like Angry Joe's KZbin Button approval video where Other Joe was naked inside the bathtub, only for AJ to tell him and Alex they got approved for the KZbin Button, LOL! Plus you get the option to skip the in video sponsor by simply fast forwarding a bit the video, compared to the mid roll ads that sometimes you can't skip at all.

[@Metaplayer]

This video was such a bulls eye when it was made, and now when Google started a war against adblockers, I becomes almost prophetic.

[@MrCanadaben]

I'm 100% certain that if KZbin reverted back to how the ads were in the beginning, only having 1 or 2 before a video, the number of adblock-users would go down drastically

[@shivers5718]

That fake sponsor segment was so realistic that SponsorBlock actually skipped it ☠️

[@g80gzt]

Sponsorblock is people manually submitting segments. They mark a start and an end, say what that segment is, and submit. People then tune what sponsorblock skips or prompts or ignores.

[@creativitysubs9935]

@@g80gzt The sponsor seemed halfway believable in the first seconds. I only got it when I saw the title of the chapter.

[@Foxygamer0101]

The person who put the segment probably got reported, it goes agains't the rules

[@gioworno]

It also got marked as a sponsor segment in yt vanced lol

[@cilian8462]

@@gioworno vanced has integrated sponsorblock

[@FullMoonOctober]

A while back I had my phone playing an hour long video of a legal expert going over a case, and it kept going to ads every 10ish minutes. My hands were messy so I couldn't hit the skip button, so I'd let them go. Until one ad just kept GOING and GOING for the longest time. I finally got fed up and washed my hands to go deal with it. The ad was 15 minutes into a 50-something minute ad. I was shocked. How are things like that even allowed?? You'd think there'd be a limit, but we know youtube will let anything happen in ads as long as they get their cut.

[@MasterLPG]

*Unfortunately KZbin is becoming more and more money-oriented these days, as many KZbinrs are going that way too so they don’t do anything since they're getting a cut of the action themselves.*

[@Li8aGun92]

​@@MasterLPG how thirsty are you?

[@Li8aGun92]

​@theviewbot google's ai is creepy. Wouldn't be surprised myself. I usually eat a yoghurt after my workout routine for protein. One time I didn't feel like it and as I was talking to myself I said I'm not eating it this time. Shortly after in the bathroom I got an ad that said "PROTEIN IN IMPORTANT FOR ATHLETES!". I might be paranoid af but damn. We know your phone listens to us, so... 💀

[@SylvainJoseGautier-]

@@Li8aGun92 I talked with my friends for like a few hours while scrolling on KZbin about celebs such as Katy Perry and Ariana Grande and what popped-up in my YouTUbe recommendations? Every Katy Perry M/V in existence, I don't even watch M/Vs often, let alone KP.

[@candycane1744]

Yeah I noticed Too when I'm at work and listen to music on KZbin. Thought the day I get at most a 1 min ad but AS SOON as I get to work ALL the ads are 50min long and I can't keep pulling out my phone to skip it

[@6ucket]

The worst thing that ever happened as a youtube premium user was one day when i forgot to sleep my PC, my KZbin feed autoplayed into an actual neon*zi account who was counting the amount of jewish guests on joe rogan. Very uncomfortable at the idea that even a penny of what i spend on YTP could potentially go to a person like that.

[@nofurry353]

There’s more! They don’t let you see a video unless you turn your adblocker off!

[@MalucoLapin]

based on a cookie put in your computer : delete histo, remove all cookies and active connexions, reconnect on youtube, voilà ;)

[@Kulgur]

I resisted getting an adblock for the longest time, because I wanted to support creators. The recent uptick in ads managed to convince me: I installed Ublock Origin a few weeks ago, and started to support more patreons. KZbin is shooting itself in the foot.

[@foolsenigma]

Oh absolutely. Right now i have ublock and youtube vanced, but if either of those go away and i have to deal with 5 ads at once, id literally just stop watching youtube videos. Thats literally the reason i stopped using crunchyroll. Theyd make more money off people if they just brought back those annoying little banners and limited video ads to the end of videos like they used to

[@theminuskai7453]

All hail adblockers

[@AzureTheAvian]

Sadly, I watch KZbin on my iPhone so I can’t get Adblock and need to pay for KZbin premium. Thankfully I set my location in a place that only costs like $5 a month.

[@AdonanS]

Same here, mate. A few years ago I heard creators don't get ad revenue if you have ad blocker, so I avoided using it too. These days, most people have sponsors, so I'm strongly considering using a blocker.

[@alt1763]

@@foolsenigma there is ReVanced, so you should be good on the mobile front

[@grumpo89]

We took those skippable ads from the good ol' days for granted. I remember when having to wait five seconds to skip one ad was unbearable.

[@TheItalianoAssassino]

I remember ads on mobile not being a thing period around 2013.

[@sabersz]

It still is unbearable, being someone who's used KZbin Vanced for years now.

[@idogaming3532]

I remember when only beginning ads existed.

[@onyxia8786]

It's still unbearable, it's just WAY FKn WORSE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Kris-od3sj]

@@sabersz To anyone reading that: Vanced is dead, Google killed it, it's been revived as ReVanced.

[@nartboglin9046]

This is how you start a KZbin revolution, now just post this video everywhere and start a petition.

[@GBGuns]

Thank you for a concise and fair breakdown. I'll share this with my audience so they understand a little better.

[@O.LEO.N]

Not only are the advertisements themselves getting worse in quality, but the ads are also getting so much longer and unskippable. Not to mention the way they just implemented double ads out of nowhere.

[@colixart]

I’ve gotten two unskippable 30 second ads before, at that point I just refresh the KZbin page. I’d do anything for someone else, like MrBeast to buy KZbin

[@spacebassist]

​@@ravenloransthat's cool son, I use adblock too and love it with the way things are but I also watch on mobile pretty often. We're suffering here. Please don't say "buy a computer" since a lot of "normies" aren't gonna do that for KZbin

[@TheRumym8]

@@colixart idc if i spent a min refreshing the page im getting to an ad that i can skip

[@ChasingDragons420]

There's no such thing as a good quality ad.

[@toky9066]

@@spacebassist yeah I often watch it on mobile and you can report the ad, which makes yt skip all of them.

[@JemmaHeigis]

There’s nothing worse than getting one of those half hour ads while you’re listening to a video in the shower.

[@thenightriterpartii7724]

Or while you're trying to eat.I take my time to find the perfect video while eating but, dumb ads interrupt.

[@GhostlyMoonWitch]

@@thenightriterpartii7724 I recently sucked it up and got an adblocker, if I ever use the app I usually reload the video until I get lucky with a 5 second ad. The amount of ads nowadays are beyond ridiculous.

[@thenightriterpartii7724]

@@GhostlyMoonWitch I have an ad blocker on my computer but, I use my phone a lot more.

[@GhostlyMoonWitch]

@@thenightriterpartii7724 Same, but I use ios. I’m using 1blocker and I use youtube on safari and not the app.

[@thenightriterpartii7724]

@@GhostlyMoonWitch That's actually a good idea.

[@0sujin]

I've not seen your channel before, but you were suddenly featured in my homepage recommended, so here I am. Thanks for this kind of content. I liked and subscribed!

[@marioncoco]

This vid is genuinely one of the best ive seen in a while. Subscribed ✨

[@BananaTheNinja]

What I hate about ads is if you find a youtuber that lulls you to sleep, you'll put on a video, start slowly drifting off, be 90% to dream land and some FREAKING AD WILL PLAY and it completely shatters any sense of calm.

[@norrecvizharan1177]

I know right. Even tried to just put on a 30 minute OST (it was the Frigate Orpheon theme from Metroid Prime, super chill to listen to) to sort of meditate and nod off to, but then hardly 7 minutes into it I'm gettin hit with that shit, and not even playing the vid through to the end and restarting gets rid of them for some reason. Just like, damn, I simply want to listen to good music for extended periods of time without interruptions.

[@wolfetteplays8894]

Then buy premium

[@grandstarstudiosYT]

Or use adblock

[@Thinginator]

I used to listen to classical music on KZbin for that reason and for studying, but KZbin kept putting ads in the middle of the songs and it was maddeningly jarring. It’s a SONG, it’s supposed to be enjoyed without breaks!

[@ctrlaltdebug]

If you don't have AdBlock by now, you're really really stupid.

[@valpix7007]

It's funny bc whenever there's an in-video sponsorship (squarespace etc), when you pull up the waveform on the timeline, the "most replayed" section is almost ALWAYS the part after the ad

[@electricpepperoni4789]

Its problably because we all already know about raid, audible,Nord, dragon city, raycon, and league of legends anyway. Edit: Cant forget ridge wallet. Edit 2: How did I not think of skillshare. Edit 3: I just remembered Honey, and squarespace. Edit 4: Opera GX of course. Edit 5: Did I mention Displate? Edit 6: I was reminded of Keeps. Edit 7: Genshin Impact right how did I not think of that? Edit 8: I just fixed Edit 7 to say edit 7 instead of just edit. I also added edit 9 Edit 9: We can't have Nord without Express to complete the VPN pair, also for this edit I added edit 10. Edit 10: Not even about the sponsorships but dont you hate it when ads are promoting adblockers. Counter Intuitive.

[@randomsnapperson8008]

@@electricpepperoni4789 Surfshark

[@dinoblacklane1640]

The only ones I dont skip are the creators that actually do interesting things with the sponsorships If they just read off the script then sure skip But take internet historian, turns his ad sections into wierd adventures

[@gazza8524]

@@dinoblacklane1640 While its probably not a good look, TomSka did a very good video called SurfShark Please Fire me, where he does go into a little depth about what most sponsors want, a bland ad-read with 1 or 2 points and a (in the case of a VPN company) just showing you changing your location on Netflix. Guess it brings the price down too, what's cheaper? Getting this person to blankly talk into the camera with fake enthusiasm for a shoddy product / service or for them to put time, effort and maybe money in for what is essentially an overglorified person blankly talking into the camera with fake enthusiasm but in a costume?

[@mattd6085]

@@dinoblacklane1640 Nord VPN Man is the hero we never deserved and don't need, Ganesh bless him

[@twizzlers7274]

Great video, I'm going to need to check out more of them now :D

[@LeeRaldar]

As a guitarist I often check through various song tutorials, maybe 10 or 12 until I find the one best suited to my ear. The amount of ads involved is so absurd it is becoming easier to hop in my car and go down to the local library see if they have a paper copy of the song. But then there is the car radio pumping out back to back ad breaks on the way.

[@TheTrueGlaukos]

I stopped turning my adblock off back when I found out youtube was still running ads on channels they'd entirely demonetized. Since youtube hasn't done anything at all to be a better platform since then, I haven't seen a single ad in years

[@elgatochurro]

thats also why i refuse to pay them

[@Sin_Purple]

@@elgatochurro Amen, brother

[@meatbleed]

this website is an anomaly. no other company can afford to do anything like it. if you like it, support it, since it's built to fail. so weird how billions of people use something but nobody seems to want to support it.

[@thenickbolt]

@@meatbleed It's because Google has bought out or strangled every possible competitor.

[@cacomelon4768]

Back when I did youtube I was watching some of my videos on a computer without adblock and was surprised to see so many ads. I have 86 subs. Most of these videos had 40-200 views and I was not even close to being monetized. KZbin was ruining the experience for what few viewers I had without my consent and not even paying me for it. Thanks youtube.

[@TheDweeb002]

Ironically being greeted with 2 un-skippable ads upon tapping this video had my rage meter through the roof

[@unknownname1941]

:D

[@nickutzig1157]

@@NANAnaNavilleradoes that work for ios

[@ITedBundy]

@@nickutzig1157 tip for phones, report the ad and it straight up skips both, doing that always 😂 don't have to give a reason aswell you can x out at that screen

[@rat_dragon]

@@ITedBundy that's what I do too, but they won't always let you report every ad

[@_Chessa_]

@@ITedBundy don’t teach them this. Let them be in the dark. XD F iOS

[@HowieRaps]

One time I fell asleep to KZbin and when I woke up, I kid you not it said there was still like 4 hours left on a 14 hour ad. I took a video of it because i couldnt believe it 😂

[@rylthd8559]

bruh, why you sleeping for more than ten hours.

[@HowieRaps]

@@rylthd8559 what's there to be awake for

[@I_hunt_lolis]

I remember I stopped watching a couple of channels as I would get ads every few minutes. Had no idea it could be youtube's and not the content creator's fault... Thanks for the informative video!

[@SRO78]

The fact that 2/3 people are using adblockers says more about ads themselves than it does about us tbh, the fact that they are this much of a neccesity is a bad thing

[@blackout4328]

Cry harder

[@TheGravityShifter]

The aggression is why I use adblock, also some of these ads are more unchecked than you may think which can lead to shady things. My way to combat it when I can't be on the PC, say I'm on my PlayStation, I'll just mute the TV. When part 2/2 pops up, I immediately back out and go back into the video. Most of the time this allows you to skip Part 2 of the Ads completely because the App/Site basically wants to make sure you've seen at least Part 1 of the 2.

[@samu-chan]

where’d you get 2/3 from😭

[@TheGravityShifter]

@@samu-chan If you watched the video long enough, you wouldn't be asking.

[@samu-chan]

@@TheGravityShifter this is true

[@interesting2491]

The amount of commercial advertising we consume nowadays is INSANE

[@piccolo917]

Jup, and it feels like such a waste of everyone’s time.I know cars exist. I know sodas exist. I know website making tools exist. Etc. Etc. Etc. If I’m interested in one of those, I’ll look it up go to the store. I have never watched an ad and immediately went out to buy it or something. You don’t have to pester me with the same ads over and over and over and over again.

[@nevercommitsuicide]

yep, worst thing is that it fucks up our mental health

[@DoppelgangerTH]

@@piccolo917 I believe they are subconsciously injecting you their brand,so if you decide to buy an item the first brand you'll likely to remember is theirs.

[@juneyellowsnek]

@@nevercommitsuicide absolutely incorrect, even if you're a pussy I still don't see how it would affect you at all

[@ericredbear425]

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[@HanzoWasabiSauce]

When I’m not watching on premium, I mute the video and scroll down. After I think it’s over I scroll up and unmute. So doesn’t matter who wins the bid, I’m not watching or listening and idk what’s trying to be sold to me ☺️. Sometimes I’ll click over to another tab watch another video while it’s playing but they do this thing where they make the ad stop playing until you come back. It doesn’t always happen though so not sure of the exact circumstances yet.

[@Markfr0mCanada]

And a year later, the Adblock crackdown, let's see how this ends. To be perfectly honest, it's not ads in principle that I object to, it's how obnoxious they are, how irrelevant they are, how repetitive they are, and that their volume is typically louder than what I was watching. If ads were respectful I wouldn't really care.

[@Bruneian]

It feels like KZbin is hurting itself for money, removing dislike and adding many unskippable ads

[@ashtar3876]

There's no alternative so they don't risk anything.

[@3st3st77]

Don't worry, they are fully aware that they are killing KZbin off. If the service you are offering has many consumers but few growth opportunities, it is best to just get as much money out of it as possible and invest it somewhere else.

[@hgyuuuuhj098]

Hurting how? U have nowhere to go. This is why monopolies suck

[@wtnv]

@Sonic Mobian the removal of the dislike button means that scams / terrible how-to's / etc can no longer be quickly avoided and the user's time gets wasted. the only reason they took it away is because it prevents the big companies supporting them from getting negative responses on their videos. you might not have been affected by it but it was definitely a bad change

[@koolkayn]

KZbin is starting to feel like US TV with how abundant these ads are

[@cainster]

I think US TV literally gives less ads.

[@jaketaf98]

Profittttssssssss babbyyyyyy

[@onilamb845]

Ironically enough that was my major reason for quitting TV decades ago, now there's nowhere to run lol...

[@danielserrano929]

Time to quit KZbin 😢

[@Stettafire]

It's worse, muc h worse

[@Borigin]

The new Mitchell ads really says something more like "you want, no, I will give you some content with your ads" instead of some ads with your content

[@GregTheReaper]

I feel like you need to revisit this topic after a year considering how much worse things have got and how brainwashed some creators are. I've literally been kicked off creators discord servers for calling out the stupidity of comparing adblocking to piracy, it's absolutely insane. Plus removing adblock support from Chrome based browsers, sounds straight up illegal and irresponsible to consumer privacy & safety.

[@bugsmith9751]

the single dumbest thing is that youtube heavily restricts what kind of content creators can make before they get demonetized, but dont hold ads to the same standards... youtubers cant show something mildly spicy, meanwhile in a video where the person is trying to be wholesome, you get an ad for hentai... or worse

[@theuncalledfor]

"You are demonetized because our advertisers don't want their violent addictive poisonous swear-word-laden medical-pseudoscience porn to be associated with your far-right political ideology of being historically accurate in historical documentaries. What do you mean that's not even far-right? Shut up or your entire channel will be demonetized forever."

[@joshuabacker2363]

That's just power dynamics. Content creators depend on youtube. KZbin needs content creators, yes, but youtube is a singularly organized entity, while content creators are basically a vast mob of individuals. Even if some of the content creators won't abide by KZbin's monolithic standards, they ultimately can't effect any serious change, especially since they are individually weak. The top 10 most-viewed KZbin channels have a combined view count of just over 1.1 Trillion views. KZbin gets that many views in total every year, nearly. All of those channels could vanish with their viewers never deciding to replace them, and KZbin probably wouldn't even notice the metric difference for years. Furthermore, only the top 9 channels actually have more TOTAL VIEWS than KZbin's MONTHLY view count. There's literally nine channels out of tens of thousands of active, partnered, actually-relevant channels that could even put a visible dent in KZbins metrics on their own. And of course, none of these channels ever would get involved in stuff like this. To even further elaborate the difference, Pewdiepie only has a total view count of 28 billion. KZbin gets nearly 3x his total views per *month*. Three separate pewdiepies would have to leave youtube entirely to set them back just a month in views. For the vast majority of channels, it's even worse. Grant's channel only has a total of 33 Million views. He would need to find over 200 youtubers of a similar size to get a total view count equivalent to a month of youtube's views. And if he wanted to actually leave the platform and lower youtube's monthly views, he would need to find nearly 1000 other channels of a similar size to cause any measurable impact on KZbin's metrics. And this is all heavily skewed information, because in reality, if Grant's channel disappeared tomorrow, most of his viewers wouldn't stop viewing videos, they'd just turn their attention to other videos or channels. KZbin has *all* the power in this relationship, and the only ones they really need to appease are advertisers and sponsors. Content creators and even viewers are just too small and too divisive to be a threat to them.

[@bugsmith9751]

@@joshuabacker2363 im sorry, im here for comments, not to buy a book, thanks

[@GoogleMapsTablet]

​@@bugsmith9751Chill he's just making a essay to tell you

[@GoogleMapsTablet]

​@@joshuabacker2363Nice Book I'll buy it

[@TheSamuraiGoomba]

It started during the pandemic. There are a lot of channels I can't watch on devices anymore because I'll get a double stack of ads every 1 or 2 actual minutes. Like, 1 minutes of watching a video and then I'll get a double stack, 30 seconds of unskippable ads. Who the hell can even remember what show they're watching with ad breaks every one or two minutes??? It's totally insane.

[@neonoir__]

It's insane how porn sites have less viewer experience intrusive ads

[@WohaoG]

@@neonoir__ how do you know?🤨[insert my pfp here]

[@noahyoung6524]

@@WohaoG littleR ain’t lying though they only do it at the beginning of the video and you won’t see them again

[@WohaoG]

​@@noahyoung6524 ok both of you to jail

[@eliescobis9922]

@@WohaoG no

[@JelMain]

We lived perfectly well before the internet, and we'll live perfectly well after it.

[@OGMantaxfan]

this video only ages better and better over time

[@JA-tp1uw]

Remember when people freaked out at the first tiny add boxes came around? Who would've thought it would go this far

[@connivingkhajiit]

Slippery slope baby

[@cefirodewinter9086]

I remember when KZbin had no adds, though I was a Kid

[@TheSamuraiGoomba]

Those people who freaked out initially were the canaries in the coal mine. They were reacting not just to the first small ads themselves, but to the direction it would inevitably lead.

[@wewoweewoo]

that was the only time I ran without add block

[@freedustin]

@@TheSamuraiGoomba People online tend to forget that many of us were alive before 1990...we remember when cable companies sold us ad-free for a premium price then added in ads anyways.

[@lhumanoideerrantdesinterne8598]

That's an honestly admirable stance coming from a KZbinr. Glad you're willing to respect our time and happy to support you on patreon because of that.

[@mmazvis]

I can't remember who said it, but few months back I was watching a video where a guy was talking about how much ad revenue is generated by a single viewer. His conclusion was, if you donate $1 over the period of 5 years or so, you have already given the creator much more money, than what the creator would have earned by you watching and interacting with every single ad, on every single video over those 5 years. So if you feel guilty of using ad blocker, as you are taking away money from your favorite youtubers, just give a $1 donation every year or so, and that would be much much more beneficial to that creator than watching ads to support him. And if you think that their content is not worth the $1 donation per 5 years, then why are you watching it in the first place?

[@whohan779]

@@mmazvis Louis Rossmann probably

[@mirandahw]

@@whohan779 Correct, here's the video in question: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYeWpJKperiho6c Louis is pretty awesome most of the time.

[@RipRoaringGarage]

I told my viewers the same thing. Im not even monetized and YT puts ads everywhere. I dont even have the option of picking where an add pops in. But Patreon sucks. Subscribestar is much cheaper and better overall.

[@SpunkMayo]

@@mmazvis or I can enjoy for free, and think it's worth whatever I like.

[@Erebus-PCFX]

5:58 I do not care about the downsides of using an adblocker. It sanitise my web experience by removing annoying, misleading and repetitive ads that pop up. I don't care if it hurts the bottom line of some creator because said creator refuses to implement alternative methods to monetize their content. Things change with time and supporting creators via KZbin ads is simply out of the question now. This is not TV nor radio, its the internet, and I will not let myself get stampeded on by unrelentless commercial garbage for 1/3 of the video. I've had 1 minute ad rolls for 30 seconds of actual content. This is madness and I am done with it.

[@niceiron89]

ahhh a man with integrity and passion in his work. i'd watch that, maybe even a few ads for a person like that.

[@BigPapaVerde17]

You know it’s insane when you buy premium to avoid ads, just to receive a hand-made ad by the creator mid-video

[@gilbertaswell]

bro i refuse to buy premium, opera GX built in adblocker works 99% of the time, they are constantly updating it so youtube cant see it, only had it detected one time so i turned it off for an hour and then just turned it back on and its worked ever since. i recommend that against premium

[@farelimm]

Still, premium has been the best decision ever. My husband and I watch KZbin every day, and it’s one of two entertainment subscriptions because we hate the majority of streaming services. I’ll take a skippable raid shadow legends ad by my favorite creator over YT ads any day

[@FabulousSquidward]

I use adblock on the computer. But getting it to watch on my phone is worth it.

[@farelimm]

@@FabulousSquidward yep I’m pretty much always on my phone or the tv

[@motap4935]

​@@axelesquer6050I think it's usually viewer submitted

[@j4l]

The modern web without an ad blocker is unbearable

[@mrscruffles801]

It's shameful how this beautiful creation has been ruined by government, the media, scammers, and corporations.

[@harrisongrant8558]

It's literally almost impossible to use it without an ad blocker. Not only does it make everything ungodly slow and use a ton of bandwidth for no good reason, making reading anything hell, It's also a legitimate security concern. I don't use uBlock to screw over creators, and KZbin ads are generally not dangerous so much as they are intrusive and annoying, but when it comes to reading the news online or doing literally anything else, I'm not about to risk drive-by malware and other crap from ads that these multi-billion dollar corporations can't be bothered to police.

[@mrscruffles801]

@@harrisongrant8558 Absolutely. Adblock should be mandatory.

[@NotRealAkira]

@@harrisongrant8558 Some ads on KZbin have actually been sctraight up malicious though.

[@ShadowMajestic]

It's not like the 2000's were all that fantastic without an ad-blocker. Remember those loud smiley ads? Those community adblock lists uBlock etc. uses, started as people's hosts files.

[@belle8i]

Your thumbnail caught my eye. I visited the Postojna cave this past October. Cute dragon!

[@ryanm.191]

Just remember, the FBI cyber security devision say you should always use an Adblock on the internet

[@stephendavis5530]

One thing that REALLY pisses me off is that I am a pretty small creator at the moment and, even though I do not qualify for AdSense, KZbin puts ads on my most popular videos and I DON'T SEE A SINGLE PENNY OF THAT MONEY! I don't see how they can get away with this!

[@LMDProductionsOfficial]

Thank you!! Me too. It's our work ffs piss off ads.

[@krys_chan]

i use to purposely find small creators to watch because i hated ads and wanted to support smaller channels, now i’ll get an ad on a video with less than 5k views on a channel with only a couple hundred subs. it’s terrible.

[@ugleebuggs7597]

Same. I’ve actually set my vids to demonetise, thinking it would stop ads on my vids. My vids still have ads.

[@Pat12379]

You don't have enough subscribers

[@stephendavis5530]

@@Pat12379 No, you're quite right my friend....I DON'T have enough subscribers to qualify for AdSense as I already stated, but they are still putting ads on my videos even though I don't qualify, therefore - THEY SHOULD NOT BE PUTTING ADVERTS ON MY VIDEOS, SHOULD THEY? KZbin are making money from my videos and I don't see a penny of it! How ice of them!

[@rockinbells8351]

Consumer history: Public tv started with ads so people switched to cable which didnt have ads. Cable added ads so people switched to streaming cause they didnt have ads. Streaming now has ads so people are frustrated and lookong for somethong without ads. Another example: Movie theaters started showing ads so people bought vhs cause they didnt have ads. Vhs started having ads so people switched to dvds. Dvds started having ads (but at least you can opt out of watching them) so people started pirating.

[@basspig]

I haven't seen a single ad on KZbin since I stopped using the KZbin app.

[@MillywiggZ]

The worst example of KZbin ads was a video uploaded today by ‘Kazoneart’. It was a video of a manager mourning the loss of his friend and colleague. The video was roughly 14min long and it was just a man, with a camera talking about how the death of Kim Jung Gi; How it happened, the funeral arrangements because Gi died abroad, how the company will commemorate Gi. During the video, Hyun Jin Kim the manager of ‘Kazone’ breaks down while talking about Gi. KZbin thought the best thing to do was to put an ad break of unskippable ads after Kim breaks down crying and turns the camera off before he resumes. When I shut the video down to watch it again there were THREE UNSKIPPABLE AD BREAKS in the video. So, here’s my non-ad blocker way of getting rid of the ads when they show up but it works 95% of the time. When an ad plays there’s a small ‘i’ in the bottom left corner of the video, click that then ‘Stop seeing this ad’. It’ll cancel the ad block even if you don’t give a reason. This is me giving you the finger KZbin. Putting ads on a broken man grieving for his friend.

[@mossnodachi350]

I was genuinely just thinking of this when I clicked the video. The fact that youtube has an entire algorithm for divvying up ads and their content and somehow slapping it onto someone being honest and open about a really tragic (and lets be honest, traumatic in regards to how Kim jung gi passed suddenly abroad) event. There is NO Reason there should be ads on that at all, let alone unskippable. Not only is it a pain in the ass to viewers, but it makes it impossible to talk about anything of value without (in this case) a grieving man being interrupted by idk, a cheery youtube shorts or hobby lobby christmas ad

[@cbsGD]

I actually did that trick of pressing the i button and after about 6 months they literally took away the ability to stop seeing ads from me, which is why I now use an ad blocker.

[@xian654]

So sorry, was looking through comments and accidentally pressed dislike on your comment.

[@officialSgtPepperArc360]

Obviously KZbin doesn't care for that man.

[@MillywiggZ]

@@xian654 Pffff. Don’t worry about it. Despite what YT says I didn’t receive that “feedback”. Hahaa!

[@Jabrilgalien]

2:52 that's exactly what happened to me: I used to always keep adblock disabled on youtube because I wanted to support the channels I watch, but some months ago when I started getting 3 to 4 unskippable ads in a row or a 30 sec unskippable ad on a 1 min video, I just had to enable it again. In addition to that I also got some ads for literal camgirl websites or for scams... KZbin has just become unwatchable without adblock.

[@johanneswerner1140]

Yes. And that's the same with all Internet ads. They started out as just pictures. OK. Then with sound, videos, humongous ressource use. Trackers. Miners hidden in ads. Sorry. No. I'm OK with a well placed relevant ad or three. A still picture on a website. I'm OK if you have a non crappy sponsor that is not a scam. I'm OK with you advertising that.

[@SCIFIguy64]

Those creators aren’t making bank from you watching their ads, if you want to support them, actually support them on Patreon or wherever.

[@Misterjtbgaming]

brave browser is where it's at man.

[@dimesonhiseyes9134]

Nearly all KZbin ads are scams. They know about it and do nothing about it because they don't care and view you as a $ sign and nothing else.

[@AIXMK1]

My Bother In Christ, just set your VPN on Russia. I am a proud native citizen and enjoy supreme no-ad experience) I actually used premium before sanctions and did not notice the change 😅

[@galaxytripod8055]

Seeing this vid in my recommended casually reminded me when I got the lego movie as an ad. Yes. The entire lego movie. As an ad. The lego movie 2 was on its way and they were desperate to make some money, some white dude came on my screen and was like, "hey, I know your about to watch a video but let me tell you about something something bleh bleh, and now let me show you something very special" and it just, started playing the lego movie. You could skip it. But like, I was very curious, so I sat there and watched it for a few minutes before eventually skipping. But, that was very weird.

[@yogabagaba4602]

At this point iam only watching the previews of videos to avoid ads

[@confusedseagull7555]

The thing is, KZbin really doesn't care about what people think of ads, or what's even in the ads. If it makes money, they're gonna keep pushing them.

[@joanofsharc]

Spotify is a decent example of the way KZbin (and even Twitch) are headed

[@FrederikSeerupNielsen]

@@joanofsharc Twitch ads were always ridiculous, no skip button, extremely long and usually 3-5 in a row. Combined with Twitch’s terrible player that buffers and bugs all the time, it takes me 15 minutes to even see the stream.

[@MooseCastle]

@@FrederikSeerupNielsen A load of them also bypass adblockers, ever since then I never use twitch. I'll do the same if KZbin ever figures that one out.

[@javierapuga1338]

Whats worse is that they know how much we hate them. And they exploit that hatred by offering youtube premium as a solution

[@joanofsharc]

@@MooseCastle They still haven't taken down youtube adblockers from the chrome store which they could easily get away with. Not sure why but I have heard google is making some steady changes to chromium and its extensions, so I've premtively moved to firefox.

[@tomatedesign1976]

One of my friends was subject to a massive bank fraud. He lost everything and had a long and expensive legal battle to get back a percentage of what he previously had. The business that perpetrated that fraud now has adverts on youtube. That really gets to me.

[@crazydragy4233]

You'll literally get ads for human (psychological) torture by cultists on YT. Seems like there's no bar too low

[@ZerryBerrytheSpaceRaccoon]

I'm pretty sure that adverts for that one awful zoo podcast will be allowed at this point. No, I'm not talking about zoos that let you go see animals. I'm talking about the...other kind.

[@Saga_Anserum]

damn, which business was it? gotta avoid them in the future

[@klltx2001]

@@ZerryBerrytheSpaceRaccoon I know the exact one you're talking about and it's fucking rancid that I can see that happening for YT, since it can't be bothered to fucking ban those people. D'X

[@wolfetteplays8894]

@@crazydragy4233 how so?

[@MrJemoederopeenstokj]

Bro just saved me ad watching time so i can spend more of it watching 10 hour vids of nyan cat variations. Defo earned that sub

[@coolstar2398]

I am a long time customer to KZbin. I use it all the time and have been for the last 9 years. There is a night and day difference in the number of ads that I have been exposed to. And that’s with ad blockers on every device I use.

[@goergebobicles1351]

I remember I saw my best friend's grandmother trying to watch Vietnamese cooking/tourism videos through the KZbin app through a Roku TV. Even though it was technically through my best friends account, the algorithm was able to figure out that it was a different person watching because her grandmother didn't fully understand the UI and remote and wouldn't skip ads. The end result was KZbin pumping multiple actual 50 minute ads at her for shady medicine.

[@bazookaman1353]

Wth

[@dimanyak373]

@LOAN NGUYEN They're everywhere except of Canada, as far as I know.

[@TheAbsol7448]

They can figure that out but they can't moderate comment sections or look at appeals properly.

[@kallmannkallmann]

honesty should be a cap on 1min. noone is willingly watching super long adds. once I got a 3h add xD

[@doimoi958]

The fake medical ads are so common and hated that they became a meme in Vietnam a year ago.

[@mystichipster5253]

I almost feel like there should be a legal limit to how much you can advertise the same thing to someone. The reason I got an ad blocker in the first place is because I was literally yelling at my phone when I’d get the same super annoying ad for the fifth time in a row. After months of the same ads playing non stop, I feel like it constitutes as brain washing at that point.

[@ltntwafflz9043]

For me it was the 3 1:30 unskippable ads at the start of videos and 2 unskippable midrol ads. That and all the constant shitty auto generated mobile game ads.

[@antred11]

I swear these ads are just a waste of money, anyway. If I get bombarded by such ads, I'll make absolutely sure to not buy the advertised product, even if I might otherwise find it useful.

[@erinys2]

I dont know how much those two companies are paying to always bombard me with ads i swear ive been getting ads of those two companies located in my country for a year AND I HAVE both of their apps dowloaded and i use them regularly For gods sake

[@jmurray1110]

There’s international regulations with TV in ads to content ratios so why not online

[@Candyy248]

​@@antred11 Nah, ads always work for them... Otherwise it would not exist 🤷

[@PedroBenolielBonito]

Hello from a year in the future. I just dropped by to say that I have also noticed a pattern - whenever I am listening to multiple videos in a row (like, say, a full album) after a while, the ads start being unskippable. Like, say, if the first five songs on a ten-song album all have skippable pre-roll ads, the last five will all have unskippable ads. I have noticed this more than once, so it's probably not random.

[@caffiend81]

Your segment about Chrome is exactly why I switched back to Firefox a while back. I heard the announcement about Chrome disabling ad-block capability and switched the same day.

[@drinkxyz]

The aggressive terrible ad experience is meant to strong arm you into premium membership. "Buy our premium membership or suffer!"

[@funkydown]

wikipedia -> susan wojcicki -> early life section

[@DoppelgangerTH]

@@funkydown that's a quite subtle way to call her greedy

[@rohan7969]

YT premium is worth it though, think like how you subscribe to Netflix or Disney+.

[@nextrg]

@@rohan7969 I'd rather pay for something else than just 'no ads' and some things. And by that I mean Netflix and Disney+. They are streaming services and you can actually watch something entertainable.

[@SLauGHTeRHaHa]

yeah, especially when a lot of the ads *on* youtube are just for youtube premium. it's throwing mud on someone's windshield then charging to clean it off

[@KingGrio]

We used to complain that ads were added before and after, and multiple times during, our show on TV. KZbin was a way out of this. Here we are back to where we started. Well done.

[@billcipher4368]

In my opinion watching a 5 minutes of boring and not able to skip them is far way worse then 60 seconds of skipble ads.

[@KamikazeCommie501]

KZbin was never meant to be a way out of ads, you only used it that way because it didn't have ads. Tbh I miss TV ads. They were long enough that you could make yourself a snack or a drink, you could talk about what happened in the show you're watching, or just have a quick chat with your family in general. These 15-30 second ads every 3 minutes are much worse.

[@SvendleBerries]

@@KamikazeCommie501 - *"KZbin was never meant to be a way out of ads,"* Thats one of the reasons it became popular though. That and the fact that anybody could make videos about whatever they wanted, meaning that anybody could watch whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted. Absolute freedom. Now its turning into what TV used to be with the insane amount of ads and heavy regulation of content. Not quite as bad as TV, but itll get there in time. Im just hoping that they dont go the route that Twitch chose to take, with forcing people to watch full screen ads as the show theyre watching continues to play in the background. Whomever thought that was a good idea needs to be beaten with hammers. - *"These 15-30 second ads every 3 minutes are much worse."* The video and ads can be paused at any time.

[@Sucullentbutter]

fr i can't watch a video without adblock. idk if it is the same in the us, but here in my country its only showing unskipable 15 sec ads and i find it sad bcs small youtubers depentend on ads don't get any money.

[@ElizabethSanto22]

If you like advertisements there are literal KZbin channels that are nothing but

[@brandongordon4019]

Really great vid. I think it's so dumb that youtube will just play ads over everything. Like a 20 second unskippable ad on a 4 second clip with 128 views.

[@mohammadn5591]

Good argument with convincing details. The best part is, you removed all the ads!! Thank you so much.