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YouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads!
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this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2026
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Maybe there was this one dev who joined the company 20 years ago, and has seen it deteriorate ever since. He's worked his way up to the top, and thinks the company needs to be destroyed, but they're an ad company, so the only way to do that is to kill ads.
After years of planning, he came up with the idea of making the ads so horrible, that people stop using services, or the ad blockers become ungodly powerful they can never be stopped.
Ultimately, it will be the end of Google, but it is the long play.
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