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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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It buffer stalls like crazy now also.
alt-left arrow, alt-right arrow
Im seeing more ads getting through ublock origin.
Lets all just collectively refuse to engage with or buy a product from any company that runs a 90 second unskippable add on youtube.
Going for infinite growth in a worth in which 'inflation' is not properly recognized as a result of the rich stealing from the rest, results inevitably in services worsening until they kill themselves.
I keep my TVs dumb because of these shitshows, no network at all. Only display stuff from cable or from operator's box, but even the latter is seldom used.
I use the YouTube TV app.
If I see ad breaks that are longer than ~20 seconds, I just back out and try again (if I'm just starting to watch a video) or go to history and resume (if in progress). YouTube can try to show another godawful long ad, but I'll just back out again and again until they stop being stupid.
Protip: Number may go bigger, but I'm not changing this behaviour.
I hope the advertisers demand meticulous statistics, and are asking YouTube why so many users balked after 1 second.
Actually over the Easter holidays, my tablet was having horrible time with YouTube (the Android app is absolute garbage and doesn't like old devices, and by old I mean 5 years) and sometimes ads made the YouTube app go suck mud and the tablet needed to be rebooted (!!!) before it worked again. So I watched YouTube on my laptop instead. With uBlock. Silence. Beautiful silence.
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On mobile I’ve noticed there’s a button have to click to remove the ad. It’s maddening. I click the button to skip. So they added layers of ads. You gotta click skip twice to get to the video. Now there’s shit covering up my interface that I have to remove. So much shit.
2036: You want to watch a 15 second clip of a kitten napping, it'll cost you a hour of ads!