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YouTube viewers will soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on a popular app.

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[–] BiomedOtaku@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

YouTube Recanced all the way. I've had YouTube premium for free.99 going on 5 years now

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[–] HexaBack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"I'm tired, boss"

-me, a warpstream user

edit for clarification: I started using warpstream through protoweb because of how unbearable YouTube has gotten, even through newpipe

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is going to end up affecting mostly house-bound poor people.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I would imagine most things do. Aside from like, idk, road construction

[–] Vince@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Yeah this sucks, but do they have any alternatives? How else do they make money? Or is everyone mad because the amount of ads they show is disproportionate to the amount of ads they need to show?

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

No one here wants to talk about the realities of running such a massive video hosting operation.

No one is a serious competitor due to how large of a mountain it is to climb to compete. With every minute that goes by, YouTube becomes even more massive.

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