Key Takeaways
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YouTube ad segments can be annoying but have a Skip option available after a few seconds.
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Users have noticed a change in the Skip button's display, potentially leading to confusion.
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The absence of a countdown timer in the Skip button's usual spot seems to be intentional.
Also great for finding channels in alternative services, and even more so since Google breaks Youtube's compatibility to 3rd party tools every once in a while.
literally have not had to skip a youtube ad in years, because I use ReVanced and AdNauseam like a sane person.
I'm going to be sad when YouTube dies, and all that collective knowledge and content either goes poof or is haphazardly, incompletely transferred to some "new thing", whenever that is -- but I won't be that sad.
YouTube doesn't show ads in my country but I still prefer not to use the official app because it sounds "heavy" to me
The biggest insult Youtube could get. A person refusing to use it even when it had zero ads because it was heavy.
But, yes I agree Youtube mobile app is inefficient and reloads losing my place. Unfortunately, I have the same issue with grayjay making even that one a non-starter.
Before when the countdown timer showed the duration of ad's I would let anything that was 2 ads collectively less than 1m play all the way through. Anything longer than 30 seconds, even 31 seconds was an instant skip. Now that the countdown timer is gone, I assume every ad is longer and skip all of them.
You will watch the super bowl ad. You will drink the verification can.
If they made YouTube Premium a reasonable price I'd be more than happy to pay and I'm sure many people would to. I don't need YouTube Music, offer me a cheaper package without it. They're leaving so much money on the table and basically inviting people to used Vanced and shit instead.
