YouTube Ads Are Getting Insane and I Hate It.

[@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.

[@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 👍👍👍

[@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. :(

[@quintit]

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

[@dakotalake9084]

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

[@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

[@d1nodray]

"1 hour of silence occasionally interrupted by an ad"

[@OmgHelpICantComeUpWithNames]

Especially when your about to sleep, listening to someone's calm voice/ a songor soundtrack you like and an ad is like "hello"

[@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 :/

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@ricebeansrockroll882]

I started getting polish (or something) ads a while. I'm not close to Poland.

[@cameronbreeze6918]

You tube totally gave up on trying to stop people using add block, it was causing more trouble than it was worth. As Grant says just get ublock and you're good. Personally I just prime sub to the twitch a couple times a year and each time I do probably pays more than the entire ad revenue he'd have received otherwise.

[@ImperiumRomanum476]

I get ads in German, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, etc etc. I'm American.​@@ricebeansrockroll882

[@-_lIl_-]

that's only with generic adblockers, for some reason uBlock Origin doesn't show that popup

[@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

[@BelchingBeaver69]

Ads arent hour long

[@bobbydirtamiyer2151]

@@BelchingBeaver69 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

[@BelchingBeaver69]

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

[@spidi500]

@@BelchingBeaver69 Your brain is as smooth as butter bruh

[@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

[@RVH-io3dr]

Paying for KZbin premium is like paying your neighbor to stop yelling at you every time you go outside.

[@asiberiantiger188]

Extortion by literal definition

[@Stormlywing]

@@asiberiantiger188 but in return you pay us we still gives you Sponsors by the makers so ADS as return as sponsors than ads try to force me to disable adblockers which i pay £30 a year for being an users who being Extortion by youtube premium telling me to join them by using threats and forced onto them not like Colleges and schools should be threaten by IT support who trust adblockers over paying for every account ( We go cheap as much as we can ) 104 students getting threaten by youtube for £1350.96 for 1 mouths and what does students get £7.50 per mouth which still an scam as Family members are cheaper about 50p less than students they done adguard thanks to me £38.8 a year for 9 students ( Got 9 of them for each class ) you know that would be way less and best part no need to block a other ad as they can just set it themself

[@TS-ij9cz]

I dunno man I’ve had it for like 10 years and the fact I don’t know about this issue for cheaper than Netflix…

[@frog_penis]

⁠@@TS-ij9czyeah, it’s like half the dollar for family plan with my friends in my region lol. I can afford to pay that neighbour 0.1% of my salary, I mean. Being kinda poor. Spotify tho, 5 dollars is A LOT, I’m not paying it no matter how annoying their add is. And a lot of subscriptions are like that, 5 dollars in common. Nuh-uh. Just KZbin is good. It has a lot of stuff for the price.

[@TS-ij9cz]

@@asiberiantiger188 the servers that store the videos don’t pay for themselves.

[@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.".

[@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

[@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.

[@Cwmaltacc90]

@@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?

[@VanK782]

My current favourites are: • 5 second ad that turns into another unskippable 12 second ad once the 5 sec runs out for some reason • 5 second ad but once it runs out there's a sneaky additional second at the end, so instead of skipping you accidentally pause • Up to 40 sec unskippable ads, applied relentlessly (I've gone out and in to a video like 7 times to get a shorter one) • 20 sec audible ads that are just a picture with some music but for some reason they made them long af?

[@santinosalamanca4378]

the last one is real like if you are not putting a voice then why would you even bother putting loud af music

[@FallenWhisper32]

I've had 55 seconds of unskippable ads. I think more recently I got a minute long session of no skip.

[@Barak925]

Then this: I finish an ad break then immediately get jumped with another ad, instant rage quit out of KZbin

[@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... 💀

[@Sylvainjose-satoyumiyato]

@@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

[@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.

[@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)

[@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.....

[@Quick50]

@@dakotalake9084tell us youtube aint abouta look through these comments

[@kales901]

unrelated to youtube, but one time i got a TEN HOUR LONG UNSKIPPABLE ADD

[@augustoof13]

I've gotten an entire movie as an ad once, something lego I think lmao

[@Quick50]

@@augustoof13 this is the second time that i have gotten a notification of a reply on a comment that i never made, with no replies from me, and a video i didnt make

[@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

[@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

[@Rumym8]

@@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@santinosalamanca4378]

there even are a lot of memes about the cpr ad thingy

[@Dert26]

Gotta disagree here. KZbin/Google absolutely sucks for their insane rampup of ads and it's the reason I've made sure my adblocker works, but if someone is in need of medical treatment the last thing anyone should ever think of doing is looking up a damn KZbin video. Just call 911

[@Bonbun372]

​@@Dert26and 911 will tell you to perform cpr with only verbal instructions on how to - a video may help someone begin providing aid while also getting help since most smartphones can make calls while also having youtube open

[@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.

[@RationalFunction]

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.

[@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

[@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

[@JinCutie]

the only ad i’ve ever liked was an ad for a free sewing class that would happen on livestream in a few days, a nice sounding and looking ad with a service im interested in and with everything explained in a short time, i wish more ads where like that one

[@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.

[@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

[@ESparkAster]

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]

@@ESparkAster 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

[@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

[@cptnoremac]

2:20 You know what's not reasonable, though? Taking A HUNDRED PERCENT of the ad revenue and giving me none because I don't meet their minimum requirements. I have videos with over 100k views that are bringing in money to KZbin and nothing to me. So no, I don't feel bad about using an ad blocker at all. If I like someone's stuff, I support them on Patreon.

[@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

[@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.

[@spyeikzjesus]

Thank you for being the first creator i know who actually speaks out against the insanity that youtube is aiming for!

[@bobuccman1424]

@@RathouseFilmworks whatever second amendment is

[@Omnihilo]

Check out Louis Rossman. He’s made a couple of videos on it, and goes into detail about why using Adblock isn’t a bad thing. They’re pretty good.

[@drantigon]

Seems like you didn't watch many youtube videos

[@drantigon]

Some things are borderline criminal in the EU

[@justsomeeggsinapot1784]

@@RathouseFilmworks bud not everyones American

[@Slipknotfan_X34]

KZbin is the type of guy to not allow cussing, but allows p*** and nudity, people abusing animals,18+ads and yeah,

[@tefhypr2]

fr

[@LambdaVids]

first off theres a reason the main browsers/webpages or literally anything they dont care,just dont use youtube if you dont like it that fixs it

[@Profinoob1337]

i havent seen p*rn here atall, im not sure how you find those lol

[@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

[@EricRedbear]

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[@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 😅

[@skippyjej]

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

[@solgaleo3533]

I’d never heard anyone mention before that turning off monetization also causes KZbin to show ads for them. It’s really scummy because sometimes it’s important. One case I’ve heard brought up is if the video has important or lifesaving information, but I think a much more common case would be videos where the creator is disabling them out of respect, such as if the video involves the announcement of someone passing away, or the video being about the creator opening up about trauma

[@DoKuShOsTaR]

Yeah. Also, people who make ASMR, sleep sounds, Hypnosis, etc. videos. One of the cc’s I watch for some sleep stuff directly posted just the other day that they purposefully turn ads off of videos aside from the first one at the beginning. Cause you know, an insomniac trying to fall asleep is gonna be pissed if an ad wakes them up. Bur KZbin just adds some in anyways. They’ve been going back and forth with youtube about it, but so far no dice. So stupid that they can’t just… follow what the creator, I don’t know, wants?

[@justarandomdiamond2993]

Gotta love when you're watching a video of someone's passing and halfway through you get an ad about how we have to "send Ron Johnson packing this November".

[@crazydragy4233]

Doesn't KZbin also monetize content made for creators who are too small to participate in monetisation? I remember some drama when that change got "announced" quietly in the fine print

[@draeath]

@@DoKuShOsTaR I think the best fix for this is to just, well, move to a platform that respects the creator. Peertube is an option. Pretty sure if you go that route though, you'll be getting nothing without setting up patreon or something to take donations through. (plus a massive cut in views)

[@ctrlaltdebug]

@@DoKuShOsTaR AdBlock is the solution. You're not really watching ads if you're trying to sleep anyways.

[@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.

[@moinsen736]

​@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

[@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.

[@TimmmTim]

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

[@barrysteakfriessimp_real]

@@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

[@SeenAGreatLight]

On TV's they're starting to do unskippable 60 second ads on "long videos." They say there's less of them on long videos, but there aren't.

[@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

[@oddoutdoors]

I clicked on a 5 second video the other week and had to sit through 2 15 second ads. That's just insane. Not only that but I've always thought that as the consumer I'm doing the company a service by taking up precious space in my brain with their dumb ads. Not only that but studies have shown that advertising on this scale is counter productive because people get sick of hearing about products and stop buying them.

[@nxx99]

An ad pair that is 75% longer than the video you're trying to watch. That sucks.

[@pikminologueraisin2139]

Yeah watching shitposts on YTB has become cancer with the adds and Shorts

[@AdmiralDG]

Totally agree, I will not buy a product advertised on youtube. The amount of ads had put me off of any name I hear in one.

[@Ryanmuniverse]

Not even exaggerating, but to say 1 in every 1000 ads I see don't even get my attention. Maybe 1 in 3000-5000? Like once I saw a chess ad after watching some chess videos and im like HMMMMMMMMMM.. but still never spent money on it. Every ad I see is some shit I'd never even consider spending money on in the first place. Fuck ads

[@funkyfranx]

Literally. Grammarly you will NEVER get my fucking money.

[@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.

[@Gibbits5.7]

recently i accidentaly turned off my ad blocker and i got a 1 minute unskipable ad i will not be doing that ever again

[@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!

[@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

[@toast6375]

@@DolusVulpesit’s true, KZbin eats so much more money than it makes. However it increases traffic on google. and dropping KZbin would be a huge blow to public opinion

[@CorldorlsGaming]

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.

[@Jurgir09]

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

[@anatidaeical]

I saw this video 5 times and didn’t click it cause my brain saw the yellow bar and other indicators of an ad. I just, ignored it like I would with any other advertisement. Crazy.

[@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.

[@chrisxd146]

It's not just KZbin ramping up aggressive advertising, but rather most of the internet as a whole. Fan wikis, news articles, forums, tutorials, and many more are inundated with ads that fill 75% of the screen with some blasting audio at max volume. It's a hellscape trying to accomplish anything without some form of adblocking and privacy protection. On a brighter note, I'm happy to see the resurgence of Firefox in terms of popularity. I used it back in 2011 for a bit before Chrome became popular, and I'm glad to see Mozilla has made several improvements to their browser as a whole.

[@saniainez]

I'm pretty proud to say I've never actually used Chrome. Firefox for 6 years, Edge for 1 year. Will return to Firefox when the ad block ban happens. What about phone? Nope, just factory-installed browsers. Never a Chrome.

[@elipticalecliptic481]

for many wikis, there is more ad (and autoplay videos) than wiki

[@xraceboyex]

Imagine if there was a way to pay something like.. let's say.. $12 a month, and it would somehow magically remove the incentive for a company.. like.. let's say.. KZbin, to monetize your attention with advertisements so they can keep their warehouses full of servers that burn terrawatts of energy - all to bring an unfathomably diverse, largest collection of audio/video data in human history to your fingertips - for your often frivilous entertainment... It's a darn shame that's an insane idea and could never work

[@xraceboyex]

@@elipticalecliptic481 If you're complaining about wiki, you probably use it a lot. Do you donate?

[@elipticalecliptic481]

@@xraceboyex also I don't want to have to choose between horribly intrusive ads or having to pay just to use the internet; that is my issue primarily like there are so many independent fan wikis that are *better* and don't have intrusive ads like those; like ads are fine but you don't need to add so many that the page is more ad than information

[@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.

[@blake4249]

something that's happened to me is that youtube just flips you off when you hit the skip button by immediately playing more ads afterwards

[@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?

[@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

[@fallouthirteen]

Man, I'm so conditioned to skip in video ads that even when I knew you were doing a fake one (the one at like 3:30) I instinctively went to the video timeline to skip past it. Ignoring/skipping ads is just a reflex at this point.

[@mightyandray7260]

Same!

[@JonatasAdoM]

I wasn't like this I cannot remember nor ever go back though

[@arunodg5536]

i usually just reload until either the video starts or i get lucky with a 5 second one

[@Leonardo-ht5jk]

I dont do that, because i like the creators i watch, thats when i saw it was a joke

[@SIDDqlo]

skip doesn't skip 'cos when you skip you are actually listening and clicking to a brief ads

[@TheSeedrunner]

You sound like such a humble person! I did watch 2 ads at the start to support you, but I didn't get any during the entire video. This world needs your vibes! 🌠

[@dh1380]

I'm actually surprised more youtubers aren't talking about this. It is absolutely ridiculous. KZbin trying to blackmail viewers in to subscribing.

[@BunE22]

Yes. I un-subscribed to a doctor's channel because YT made the ads too frequent. I told him so in comments.

[@MikiMannikin]

At this point we can call it bullying from youtubes side. Because there seems to be no working add blocking app on phones and tvs.

[@zoiuduu]

if youtube were good and stop recomending me shitty videos like in foreign languages , kids stuff, etc i would pay

[@carvcat]

@@MikiMannikin adblock browser for android, no idea about ios...

[@ItsKoryn]

@@BunE22 Another way to support creators is via merch. It's my preferred way of doing it instead of patreon. Unfortunately they never mentioned it, but merch is expensive, the good thing is not all merch is bad, the ones I bought was worth it. I also use firefox on my PC, I always have and I never wanted to change browsers.

[@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.

[@javitaxy]

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.

[@Poplyser]

I used to have no adblocker since I really didn't care all that much and I usually listen to videos in the background, plus it supported creators (which I didn't know at the time). Until I started getting ads 5 minutes long, multiple times in the videos I watched, and I got sick of it and started using adblock and also stopped watching youtube on my phone.

[@m1abrams1776]

The brave browser for mobile doesn't show ads on KZbin

[@chloverSP]

yeah I bearly watch yt on mobile for the same reason

[@shadowninja6689]

Adblockers work on your phone to.

[@mammutMK2]

That's the problem...you play with the rules and watch adds (as someone need to pay for the service) , then there are the ones with add block and you are getting punished with getting forced to watch more adds. So the solution will be that yt will disabled videos when detecting an add blocker or an browsers that could have an add block (disable functionality for Firefox)...but then they will get in trouble with premium users, that may have add block for other reasons and can't watch yt even though paying for it

[@DaveGrean]

I used to refrain from using ad-block for 'ethical' reasons but at this point KZbin is just impossible to use without it

[@gavinlaster5909]

I had 3 minutes of ads on a 2 minute video, I refuse to open it on anything I can't block ads on

[@Woolie]

I'm with you, man - never taken a sponsor and likely never will. I gave up a long while ago manually placing ads for each and every video - good stuff sticking to it. ads are getting out-of-hand on pretty much every social media platform - ESPECIALLY Twitch. it seems like everyone is at-war trying to make the most consumer-UNfriendly ad scheme possible to milk their audiences dry.

[@Bluecrimson217]

They're counting on government enforced monopolies to guarantee competitors can't spring up. The internet is getting increasingly centralized and I can hardly recognize it how it is now compared to fifteen years ago.

[@AbuHajarAlBugatti]

In this new modern godless societ money is the new God

[@mfcryptidsheep4661]

@@AbuHajarAlBugatti money keeps people from starving. God does not.

[@meemenjoyer7065]

@@mfcryptidsheep4661 ah, yes, poor starving corporations

[@mfcryptidsheep4661]

@@meemenjoyer7065 corporations aren't people.

[@sage5296]

This guy really made 10 minutes of satirical ads for this video and they’re absolutely beautiful and hilarious lmao

[@robinHobin]

Rounding up from 30 secs it's actually 12 minutes 🤓🤓🤓

[@theminuskai7453]

This is why i love my adblocker

[@regaleagle6262]

@@robinHobin why so cynical?

[@binjimonanimations]

@@robinHobin it doesn't cover the entire video... there are some parts that show other things.

[@SpectralLumo]

@@regaleagle6262 guy Def wasn't being serious with it since he used the nerd emoji.

[@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.

[@originalname1239]

It should say something about how insane advertisement on the internet that the FBI strongly recommends people use adblockers for internet safety.

[@-na-nomad6247]

The fact that patreon allows the creator to see your email is an important piece of information, thank you for including that.

[@beelzemobabbity]

Considering you use said email to make an account makes sense. If you want to keep it private you can always do what i do and have a second or third email specifically for that that isn’t connected to your phone number or bank or anything important

[@DoKuShOsTaR]

@@beelzemobabbity I’ve considered setting that up, but tbh so many websites require “email confirmation” that I can’t be bothered.

[@myblacklab7]

@@beelzemobabbity I've got about 40 email accounts, and some of them stopped working after I stopped using them. I'm exaggerating about the number, but it does get confusing, and Gmail has begun locking accounts that aren't used much, then asking for your personal info, which is exactly what I don't want to give them, which is why I made the extra accounts to begin with.

[@beelzemobabbity]

@@myblacklab7 i made mine for google photos so they all get use. I dont think you have to give them that much info, and you can always lie. But i get it i need to compile all my passwords since im trying to get them off of google

[@myblacklab7]

@@imok3487 Butters: Does she know that she is an ad?

[@donbionicle]

"Don't waste your life on ads. Your time is worth more than that." Thank you! It's always good to be reminded of something that simple. We get data harvested so damn much already, the least I'll take in recompense is minimizing advertisements.

[@smithsmith6402]

This is really the crux of why I hate ads so much. Lets do the math here: Call it 3000 views on a video for a dollar. Call it 3.33 ads on a video to be super conservative and make math easy. That makes for 10 000 ads per dollar. 15 seconds per ad is 150 000 seconds per dollar going to the creator. But lets say only a third of views aren't using a blocker so it's 50 000 seconds per dollar. Or in other words, the creator gets 7 cents for every hour you spend watching ads. So watching an ad is like being paid 70 cents an hour to do a job you didn't ask for so ~20% of that money can go to people who deserve it and 80% goes to whichever megacorp is running it in the form of you buying crap you shouldn't. Or to put it another way, if I gave someone a dollar on Patreon, that's gives them more money than me watching 2000 videos without an ad blocker. But youtube wants 12$ a month to be ad free, as though I'm going to watch hundreds or thousands of videos each day. Completely crooked.

[@delfinenteddyson9865]

@@smithsmith6402 servers are not unexpensive

[@jonwatte4293]

The only reason you get data mined, is to serve you ads. Data mining without ads has no value to the miners.

[@LetrixAR]

@@jonwatte4293 and non personalized ads are cheaper so without data mining, creators would earn less or add more ads

[@TheFinagle]

@@smithsmith6402 More to the point, *I* watched that ad, it should be *ME* the money is going to - not you tube, not the creator - 100% of money earned from an ad should go to the viewer who put in the time watching it. Ads are literal theft of time.

[@Twiligh7.Skies_Music]

What's even more frustrating is that there's a glitch that occurs on mobile sometimes (at least for me, I don't know if others experience this issue) that causes unskippable mid roll ads to play again immediately after they're done, leaving you watching the exact same unskippable ads again instead of going back to your video.

[@cloudbrooks]

oh good i thought i was the only one! or i guess... thats not good...

[@undozan4180]

for me, sometimes after the ad is over, it just stays white or black, i have to close and open the video again

[@leinad3955]

Get KZbin Vanced bro

[@darthsidius9631]

I use mobile only and it's ad hell using youtube!

[@leinad3955]

@@darthsidius9631 GET KZbin VANCED BRO

[@finnyjam8252]

I’ve probably been served hundreds of hours worth of ads on KZbin, but I’ve never clicked on a single one. Never bought anything they were selling unless it was something I’d already bought for unrelated reasons. So much of my time and so much money has been wasted for zero dollars profit to advertisers. This system is ridiculous, I wish ads didn’t consume everything on the planet like graffiti in a bathroom stall.

[@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

[@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 🤷

[@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.

[@You-Know-Youre-Right]

adblock

[@TheBaggyT]

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

[@bruh-im7gi]

​@@You-Know-Youre-RightKinda shit when on phone tho

[@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!

[@vukkicos5688]

And then they occasionally hit you with that one-question-survey to rate your recent advertisement experience on KZbin, where you cannot even elaborate the problem, while each answer could easily be interpreted as a reason to add more ads without further explanation

[@kirakaffee9976]

the most annoying thing about the surveys is the "music" they added some time ago 😖

[@galaxyendergirl]

i never choose any option for the surveys.

[@grkb]

@@kirakaffee9976 kevin macleod music moment

[@TheLithp]

@@galaxyendergirl Same.

[@user-pv7vc9kp9k]

@@galaxyendergirl i choose the wrong option

[@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.starrytheballer]

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.

[@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

[@vivrantflo]

I miss when KZbin had no ads at all, and people uploaded full movies to watch! Those days are long gone

[@Unotch]

@@vivrantflo I miss the days when there was no KZbin.

[@TrixterTheFemboy]

@@Unotch Then why do you use KZbin?

[@Unotch]

@@TrixterTheFemboy Because i'm not a yesterday man. It's part of today's world. Just because i am not really sure that things are better now i am not going to read my news on printed paper. That would mean that i have to put up with all the crap without getting the benefits.

[@AwesomeYena]

Or a square advertising flash games or something near the sidebar

[@maimedtoasticles8752]

the worst ad I’ve ever actually seen in person was when I was in a college class, the teacher put on a video to give us a quick overview of what we’d be doing that day and then left the room for about 10 minutes, while he was out about 1 minute in a full hour-long ad started, we all just sat and ignored it for about a minute before I got up to go skip the ad

[@kungfudragon321]

Fast forward a little under a year, youtube recently decided to get so incredibly aggressive about shoving ads on people that they’re now preventing people with adblockers from watching videos without turning them off, and are actively updating the site multiple times a day in an effort to stop Ublock, forcing the devs of that and youtube in a constant battle. And this video remains even more relevant than ever before

[@TimoRutanen]

They will not win the fight, though it is of course still ongoing.

[@ameliashandcraftedmemes7888]

that's why I'm here, it disabled all video playback after giving me 3 final videos with adblock like a mum confiscating it at bedtime

[@MDJ5]

@@ameliashandcraftedmemes7888 right click the vid you want to watch and open in a private tab, just make sure ublock is enabled for private tabs and youre set.

[@goldengolem4670]

@@TimoRutanen What youtube is doing might be against Eu regulations, so who knows maybe if this ISNT the worst timeline, they will win.

[@Elbereth42]

Their attempt failed utterly. I've never seen a single ad.

[@MikeCrain]

I remember when the internet didn't have commercials like TV. The scifi channel took literally all day to run a 2 hour movie because of 3 mins of commercials every 5 mins. It's crazy how KZbin is getting like that.

[@Morpheus-pt3wq]

it´s getting even worse than that.

[@Mr_Fancypants]

Because all the normies that watched tv dragged that shit into here

[@QuasiDude]

It seems like that's the inevitable cycle of every entertainment platform. It starts out as a better alternative to the previous platform, then the ads get worse and worse until it's borderline unwatchable. Newspapers, magazines, radio, television, KZbin, even some streaming services. The only thing we can do is wait for the next platform

[@Droidsky17]

@@QuasiDude I don't think there is going to be a fresh new platform for entertainment. Look at Zuck; mofo is making an ad experience before it even launches. It's a standard for new entertainment to be capitalized on. It's overflowing into having to now pay to have pay for the features in a vehicle like it's a Netflix sub. Strip away features, sell em back. It's bleeding into having physical access to things that you ALREADY BOUGHT. Anything newly created that doesn't have an aggressive platform to take advantage of your viewing experience and your data, is made by random people on the internet. That is the only pure form in most cases. KZbin capitalized on that, and monopolized it; all that creativity, raw imagination, and communication through their platform. They are setting a new standard every time. Go look at AAA gaming lmao. Indie devs are now picking up the big corporate scams already. Fighting does nothing here. Because they have made sure that there is no alternative, because somehow after all that they have done, all these people that complained about KZbin are still here! Because they have to be to continue to make money. It's a real kick in the balls. But this shit is generally ruined from the start now, because it's a standard that makes $$$. They don't give a shit about creators, and they probably never did.

[@Duck-wc9de]

in my country, when we had movie weekends, it used to run like that: 45 mins of movie and 15 minutes of ads. I didnt particulary hated that system. I actually hate that its gone, because the 2 main private channels that are free (payed with ads) stopped having movie weekends to now make 5h of a kind of program that I call "call-call", twice a day. "Call-calls" are programs where you have 2 hosts talking to each other and having diferent headings, like crime, cooking, cheap music, borderline stripping, etc... But the shows are usually a 5h long commercial to the big prize at the end. During the show, the hosts are constantly repeating "call, call the number 760-xxx-xxx to win xxxxx€ or a car". By calling you pay 60 cents to them and 13cents in taxes. This shows make me want to peal my eyelashes off

[@koholos]

Based on how many of their midroll ads are for KZbin Premium, I am convinced that the increased push for more ads is to “incentivize” people to sign up for premium to avoid ads.

[@tiredoshawott7823]

People just go to TikTok instead.

[@StarmenRock]

@@tiredoshawott7823 that's the worst possible thing ever. it's like not jumping in a pool because it's sometimes too cold to taking a bath on a warm sewer lake everyday

[@RubiixCat]

@@tiredoshawott7823 or just get an ad blocker.

[@sharkbit1136]

I get at least 2 KZbin premium ads every video. It is super annoying.

[@jwalster9412]

KZbin using on app ads to advertise there own premium features, and not even making them half good is, and always will be something I despise and wish I could sue them over.

[@Flamespin]

this problem gets even worse when you use youtube on a tv or console. when you get an ad on tv its time based, one time i got a total of one minute of ads before the video and im sure people get more edit: i forgot to say that this was a 10 minute video Edit 2 just got almost 2 minutes of ads per ad break in a 10 minute video

[@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

[@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

[@gigajerk6953]

I predicted this years ago, it started with a single picture, then 3 seconds, then 5, and I quickly realised they would keep pushing it and never stop. Now you can get 2 15sec ads in a row and probably several times for one video. It's gonna keep going.

[@moodlethenoodle]

Yeah, I noticed how they recently switched from one unskippable 15-second ad and 1 skippable one to 2 unskippable 15-second ads.

[@tasfiahaque1370]

and if you try to click out of the video to avoid the ads theyll punish you w/ more.

[@callmecharlie4250]

they're also far more intrusive now on mobile(at least), opening a tab(?) that closes comments and takes up the entire screen when you aren't watching the video in full screen mode.

[@fatcat1250]

Some predicted this 2 decades ago, it started with the first ad, then the second, then there was no third, because adblock.

[@Xoruam]

Most of the things nowadays are like that. Without actual pushback from the bottom, they will walk all over you and tell you to thank them for it. Give them an inch...

[@thinkingofyou67]

Thank you for addressing this! My joy in watching videos has declined more and more over the last year or so and to me it definitely correlates with the amount of ads I am forced to watch - and also the quality of ads 😮‍💨

[@Lesquidliestone]

I still can't believe that they briefly tried to make it so skipping the first of two ads STILL made you watch the 2nd one. I mean, it's bad enough that they moved to the two ad system to begin with, but at least it was tolerable since if the first one was skippable it skipped both.

[@alexthai5223]

i still think its a thing btw, where i skip one ad, only for a completely new ad for it to play in its place

[@DeinBleistift]

Man i remember when there were no ads. That was actually the point of going on the internet. Because there were no damn ads stuffed into the content you wanted to watch.

[@llllllllllllllIIlIllIIllIIIIll]

How dare they make profit off an excellent service! Disgusting

[@tappajavittu]

What the fuck youtube, I wasn't trying to reply to this comment.

[@tappajavittu]

And again youtube throws my comment under this comment which I wasn't trying to reply to, what the fuck is going on?

[@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.

[@SanchoPanza-wg5xf]

I sympathize. You can append &t=1 to the end of any URL to skip ahead, where 1 is an integer that specifies the offset in seconds. Or you can use open-source software that allows you to control your own device, instead of defaulting to whatever the manufacturer provides.

[@Neonax1]

@@SanchoPanza-wg5xf or he can download ublock

[@ilovemonkeyos]

I remember classic KZbin... no ads at all... We took it for granted.

[@SenpaiDeoxys]

just live in a 3rd world country bro. free adblock everywhere

[@a64738]

I have been running addblock+ for a long time, I did not even know KZbin had adds until I reinstalled windows and started it up one tine in 2018 without the addblock activated... KZbin is simply unwatchable without addblock because of the TOTALLY INNSANE amounts of adds. ...

[@mattpet7913]

That era was a fcking setup for this era. They tricked me with anime AMVs and now im stuck here watching ads. Got literally baited

[@joeld.k.7652]

Before it was bought by Google.

[@macrofurra]

@@SenpaiDeoxys Wait adblock is ilegal on other countries lol?

[@LowBatterie_666]

i keep getting 2:22 long unskipable ads before EVERY VIDEO AND I HAVE AD BLOCK!

[@playwars3037]

I actually don't want to skip sponsored content in videos, because some of the channels I watch turn those into hilarious skits taking the piss out of the sponsor and the very idea of sponsorship and I freaking love them XD

[@joweber7492]

SponsorBlock allows whitelisting channels. It also highlights/skips more than just ads. Depending on your settings, you can also skip intros, outros, interaction reminders, non-music stuff in music videos, etc

[@imselfaware419]

I still prefer to skip them, after all I came to a video about (Insert thing) not a skit.

[@neonoir__]

@@joweber7492 it's also so seamless, half the time I didn't even realize a 1/4th of the video was a sponsored segment before looking at the timeline

[@chrisakaschulbus4903]

Internet historian has awesome sponsor bits... the "you contracted raids" still puts me to the floor :D

[@ReiigaduWolf]

Noodles Sponsored ads are hilarious as well. They’re very seem less.

[@CondescendingQuinn]

I've used KZbin premium since it was called KZbin Red. I do a lot of driving so downloading videos is super useful, but it definitely feels scummy how they've made all these problems to sell you the solution.

[@Salted_Rice223]

Yeah same.

[@wishub]

@@Pocket-Calculator people are too lazy these days. But at the same time it's lowkey better to keep these solutions to ourselves so youtube/Google doesn't take immediate action against them

[@havenbastion]

The basic KZbin Premium ad offers you literally nothing except for them to stop interfering in what you could naturally do with any video stream. It's pure extortion.

[@MuffinCapBackBlue]

Y'all don't have Tubemate?

[@macrofurra]

@@wishub same

[@cooltv2776]

I was entirely willing to put up with ads in front of videos so I could continue to support the people I watched. then youtube started putting two in front of videos, and that was the breaking point for me. to hear that things have gotten so bad to the point that literally 2/3 of an entire generation has adblock installed is insane. you cant get 2/3 of people to agree on ANYTHING

[@Lunaraia]

I would say that the general consensus among the population is... "Ads in my YT videos suck balls!"

[@mickys8065]

2/3 is large? Clearly you missed those toothpaste ads.

[@igunn8632]

@@mickys8065 I mean 2/3rds in this context is probably millions of people, perhaps even a billion

[@kingderpington6082]

@@igunn8632 no where close to a billion lol, i dont even think those two generations combined make a billion, let alone the much smaller portion of them that regularly watch youtube, and then the two thirds of them that use adblock, and another thing is this is just two generations which is a very small portion of total viewers, in reality its closer to 10% of viewers that use adblock.

[@kokorochacarero8003]

2/3 of people agree on many things, but it is VERY easy to convince them they disagree with each other on everything and make sure they never find out they actually agree on many things

[@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.

[@Foxyy01]

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

[@AspireC137]

The really egregious thing to me is the fact that KZbin doesn’t give creators the option of having mid-rolls or not. They have the audacity to force mid-rolls and take the revenue as well. This is actually driving many users away from creators. It gives the impression that the creator “sold out” even when actively trying to limit ads on their own videos.

[@polocatfan]

ads on a video means you did sell out. doesn't matter if you didn't authorize them.

[@MrAntiKnowledge]

@@polocatfan Getting a bit of money back for hours of video production/editing isn't "selling out".

[@hbalint1000]

@@polocatfan KZbin forces ads on demonetized youtubers as well, so that's not true at all. Getting nothing in exchange for your videos being forced to have ads on them is not "selling out".

[@polocatfan]

@@hbalint1000 out of control, but still their fault.

[@thetideturner2187]

It is literally impossible to remove adds entirely from your video if you are partnered

[@heartlessmushroom]

Going into a public computer after being so used to have adblocker at home always feels like an utter nightmare.

[@2006HondaCivicD]

I recommend using invidious instances as a front end for youtube especially in a public computer

[@justsomebody2013]

Wow, KZbin try to hide this video hard. It impossible to find this video unless people subscribe to you or search with all the words in the title

[@GlasiaVD23]

It may be due to the URL starting with _--

[@Skylar-Fuzball]

I found this in my homepage of YT while scrolling

[@blaacksugar7714]

Okay, so they do this kind of mess on purpose...wanting to listen to an obscure song/song remix that has less than 500 views but KZbin acting like they don't know what I'm talking about when I search for it.

[@Saedris]

The "fake ads" in the background got me dying, theyre all so accurate especially 11:19

[@NuggestNug]

Caution: May cause death.