Re:Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is resigning
by olyjohn on Thursday March 16, 2023 @01:46PM
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Have you seen YouTube ads lately? When I stream a video to the "app" on my TV, I get 1 minute 30 seconds of ads at the beginning. Then about 1:20 into the video, I get 2 more 30 second ads. Then at 3:00 into the video, 2 more ads come on. Sometimes there are more ads than content. Ads come on literally less than 5 minute intervals, and the part that really drives me nuts is that it's always the same 2 ads over and over. There are even ads that are 5 minutes long. So far at least, I haven't seen a 5 minute ad that I can't skip.
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Don't get me started on youtube ads. Youtube will punish you for logging in with more ads. They punish you for watching popular content. I can accept 5 ads totaling 2 minutes every half hour
This is what turned me off to YT Music. When they migrated users from Play Music I tried it once, it took 10 clicks (including the dismissal of two interstitial modal ads) to get to a song that I own, and I still had to wait through a minute of ads to listen to it. I can't remove the app from my phone, but I haven't opened it in the 2-1/2 years since.