Insanely long YouTube ads on my TV.

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I've researched a bit but I haven't found what I consider to be an answer for my situation.

I only have about a half dozen or so favorite channels I like to watch and generally I'll click "skip ad" at the first opportunity.

One of the content creators mentioned his channel gets a little more money if the ads aren't skipped, so I decided to just relax, let the ads play and help these guys out. That was when there were only five to 15 second ads.

Now, the ads are getting incredibly long. They can be seven minutes, 12 to 15 minutes, 45 minutes, and the longest I've seen yet... over four hours long!

Why in hell does YouTube place a 4hr long ad in the middle of a 30 minute video? A follow up question would be how do I get it to stop (without paying for YouTube premium)?

I noticed when YouTube is playing on my daughter's TV, they are only showing five or six second unskippable ads, and only one at a time.
 
1) report the ad. I thought I read they don't actually want ads that are more than 30 sec long (although they might play some b2b).
2) refresh the screen?
3) so you will watch a Tiktok video on why Youtube ads are so long?
 
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kcult said:
I've researched a bit but I haven't found what I consider to be an answer for my situation.

I only have about a half dozen or so favorite channels I like to watch and generally I'll click "skip ad" at the first opportunity.

One of the content creators mentioned his channel gets a little more money if the ads aren't skipped, so I decided to just relax, let the ads play and help these guys out. That was when there were only five to 15 second ads.

Now, the ads are getting incredibly long. They can be seven minutes, 12 to 15 minutes, 45 minutes, and the longest I've seen yet... over four hours long!

Why in hell does YouTube place a 4hr long ad in the middle of a 30 minute video? A follow up question would be how do I get it to stop (without paying for YouTube premium)?

I noticed when YouTube is playing on my daughter's TV, they are only showing five or six second unskippable ads, and only one at a time.
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You can pay youtube to run full videos as ads. Prager U did it for a while and it apparently it helped them gain more viewers. It inevitably happens for me when I have something on for my kids and I'm taking a crap. That's when the long ads that are adult themed start showing on a kids video. I have seen yhose hours long ads before and wondered who would actually watch them.
 
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I (still) actively avoid the ads and block them at every opportunity. If you want me to pay for your content, then produce content that I find worthy of paying for and maybe I will send you a few bucks or subscribe to your service or substack or whatever, but trying to annoy me with a loud obnoxious sales pitch for something I have ZERO interest in is a good way to get me to ignore your content all together.

Fortunately, for some reason, I don't seem to get them on YT with the PC. I occasionally get them on the phone, but mostly if it launches in the stupid YT app instead of my ad blocking browser.

Ever since everyone started making the videos longer to gain points with YT, I have greatly reduced the number of them that I watch. I have no interest in listening to someone BS for rank ratings to get a few minutes of desired content. It seems to me like YT is trying to engage in some sort of communist plot of desensitization or conditioning with this crap.
 
Plug a cheap computer into the TV. Install a browser, install ublock origin, install sponsorblock.
Whenever you want to use YouTube on your TV, use that.
 
ChickenHawk said:
It inevitably happens for me when I have something on for my kids and I'm taking a crap.
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If you use the YouTube app on your phone to then share to your tv (or whatever is running YouTube on the TV) you can click "skip ad" on your phone and not have to jump off the toilet.
 
Squanchy said:
If you use the YouTube app on your phone to then share to your tv (or whatever is running YouTube on the TV) you can click "skip ad" on your phone and not have to jump off the toilet.
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I started doing that a little while back. Never a moment of peace.
 
Lots of the children's channels do long ads. They know that most kids leave the video playing in the background while they run off somewhere. Easy money for them.
 
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I just pay for Google music and YouTube is included. No ads. I've been grandfathered in at $7.99 month since I've been a subscriber from the beginning. Don't think I could handle current pricing.
 
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barf said:
Get you a raspberry pi and install pi-hole. Network wide adblocking for your whole house.

Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking

pi-hole.net pi-hole.net
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I've had problems with pi hole breaking some apps like hulu, companies are getting better at being aware of it and punishing you for it.

Here's an interesting workaround:
Get a Shield AndroidTV, then sideload the NordVPN(assuming you have nordvpn), and use the cybersec feature to ad block.
It is neutered in the Google Play store, so you have to sideload.
 
pinkbunny said:
I've had problems with pi hole breaking some apps like hulu, companies are getting better at being aware of it and punishing you for it.

Here's an interesting workaround:
Get a Shield AndroidTV, then sideload the NordVPN(assuming you have nordvpn), and use the cybersec feature to ad block.
It is neutered in the Google Play store, so you have to sideload.
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Yeah I haven’t used pi-hole in years. Just figured they would update it as the streaming companies got onto them 🤷🏻‍♂️
 
pinkbunny said:
I've had problems with pi hole breaking some apps like hulu, companies are getting better at being aware of it and punishing you for it.
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Here as well, I had to let the roku get around the filters or hulu and something else I can't recall wouldn't work. Paramount+ maybe? We only subscribe to one channel at a time so we've cycled through them all and had to deal with unblocking various things.

pi-hole won't stop ads on youtube, at least it doesnt' for me on the mac or PC.
 
Watching YouTube on TV through my Roku, I can skip about 98% of the ads with the push of a button, twice.

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