For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads

Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads by gxs on Friday February 04, 2022 @06:39PM (#30215122)

I quit because I was getting 2-3 30 second ads per video, 5 minute videos that is.

Ended up getting an ad blocker on my iphone and deleting the app. I now have to use youtube.com and settle for 720p, but it's far and away better than the shit ads it served.

Don't get me started on the relevancy of the ads.

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Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads by IX-103 on Friday February 04, 2022 @08:27PM (#30216071)

You may have been in the heavy ads group from some sort of A/B experiment on how the number of ads they show affects engagement. YouTube runs these sorts of experiments all the time to improve "metrics". I've heard that there's even a long-running "control group" that doesn't get ads on YouTube.

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Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads by ipaddr on Friday February 04, 2022 @06:48PM (#30215188)

You don't have to settle for 720p change the quality 720p is the default

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Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads by gxs on Friday February 04, 2022 @08:26PM (#30216064)

I think on the mobile site 720p is the best you can do. On the app/desktop you can get 1080p.

I, at least, have never seen that 1080p option on the mobile site.

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