YouTube is now trash

daven · November 20, 2016 6:08PM

The advertising on YouTube is now so intrusive it is obnoxious. A little advertising was acceptable but Google wanting you to sit through a fifteen minute infomercial to see a ten minute video is insane. Granted most ads are a minute long and you can skip them after a few seconds but really? A commercial before every video is annoying considering the quality of most videos is not that great and I won't finish watching them. No thank you.

Yes I read about YouTube Red but for how much I watch YouTube it certainly isn't worth the price of a Netflix subscription.

/endRant

tallest skil · November 20, 2016 8:07PM

YouTube has ads?

gatorguy · November 20, 2016 8:21PM

daven said:

The advertising on YouTube is now so intrusive it is obnoxious. A little advertising was acceptable but Google wanting you to sit through a fifteen minute infomercial to see a ten minute video is insane. Granted most ads are a minute long and you can skip them after a few seconds but really? A commercial before every video is annoying considering the quality of most videos is not that great and I won't finish watching them. No thank you.

Yes I read about YouTube Red but for how much I watch YouTube it certainly isn't worth the price of a Netflix subscription.

/endRant

If you take a subscription to Google Music then YouTube Red is free. Just a thought.

daven · November 20, 2016 10:11PM

gatorguy said:

daven said:

The advertising on YouTube is now so intrusive it is obnoxious. A little advertising was acceptable but Google wanting you to sit through a fifteen minute infomercial to see a ten minute video is insane. Granted most ads are a minute long and you can skip them after a few seconds but really? A commercial before every video is annoying considering the quality of most videos is not that great and I won't finish watching them. No thank you.

Yes I read about YouTube Red but for how much I watch YouTube it certainly isn't worth the price of a Netflix subscription.

/endRant

If you take a subscription to Google Music then YouTube Red is free. Just a thought.

I'll pass. I listen to my owned iTunes music or the radio when I want to listen to music. I have no use for another monthly bill.

gatorguy · November 20, 2016 10:51PM

daven said:

gatorguy said:

daven said:

The advertising on YouTube is now so intrusive it is obnoxious. A little advertising was acceptable but Google wanting you to sit through a fifteen minute infomercial to see a ten minute video is insane. Granted most ads are a minute long and you can skip them after a few seconds but really? A commercial before every video is annoying considering the quality of most videos is not that great and I won't finish watching them. No thank you.

Yes I read about YouTube Red but for how much I watch YouTube it certainly isn't worth the price of a Netflix subscription.

/endRant

If you take a subscription to Google Music then YouTube Red is free. Just a thought.

I'll pass. I listen to my owned iTunes music or the radio when I want to listen to music. I have no use for another monthly bill.

Perfectly understand. There's lots of free music available. No need spending money on anything you're not likely to use, just wanted to mention it for those that are into streaming music and really enjoy Youtube too but not the ads.

daven · November 21, 2016 2:14AM

gatorguy said:

daven said:

gatorguy said:

daven said:

The advertising on YouTube is now so intrusive it is obnoxious. A little advertising was acceptable but Google wanting you to sit through a fifteen minute infomercial to see a ten minute video is insane. Granted most ads are a minute long and you can skip them after a few seconds but really? A commercial before every video is annoying considering the quality of most videos is not that great and I won't finish watching them. No thank you.

Yes I read about YouTube Red but for how much I watch YouTube it certainly isn't worth the price of a Netflix subscription.

/endRant

If you take a subscription to Google Music then YouTube Red is free. Just a thought.

I'll pass. I listen to my owned iTunes music or the radio when I want to listen to music. I have no use for another monthly bill.

Perfectly understand. There's lots of free music available. No need spending money on anything you're not likely to use, just wanted to mention it for those that are into streaming music and really enjoy Youtube too but not the ads.

I listen to classic country on Heartland NPR using the Internet station option on my Denon receiver. Every once in a while they have a pledge drive and I toss in $5 which is a much better deal than any streaming service and there are no commercials or political talk shows. It really makes for a more relaxing experience.

Ourection · February 7, 2017 8:02PM

I do not care if need to wait a few second before i can skip the ads, but sometimes, the ads cannot be skip, and i think the advertiser pay high to Google for this kind of ads because the "guaranteed" view impression

spheric · February 7, 2017 10:11PM

The uploader of the video can decide whether ads should be shown before, during, or after the video, and also whether they are skippable or not. The advertiser has no say in this.

lexo · April 10, 2017 9:58AM

On one side yes, but on the other side..youtubers are generally earning big from all of this commercialization taking place. My best friend's sister just got to 200,000 subscribers..she is contemplating on quiting her full time job

spheric · April 10, 2017 1:03PM

lexo said:

On one side yes, but on the other side..youtubers are generally earning big from all of this commercialization taking place. My best friend's sister just got to 200,000 subscribers..she is contemplating on quiting her full time job

I hope to be able to buy a small dinner from my YouTube earnings at some point.

tallest skil · April 10, 2017 3:48PM

lexo said:

On one side yes, but on the other side..youtubers are generally earning big from all of this commercialization taking place. My best friend's sister just got to 200,000 subscribers..she is contemplating on quiting her full time job

She one of those cleavage displaying video game players?

lexo · April 11, 2017 9:07AM

tallest skil said:

lexo said:

On one side yes, but on the other side..youtubers are generally earning big from all of this commercialization taking place. My best friend's sister just got to 200,000 subscribers..she is contemplating on quiting her full time job

She one of those cleavage displaying video game players?

Haha. No, she does make-up and Beauty products reviews.

tallest skil · April 11, 2017 2:48PM

lexo said:
Haha. No, she does make-up and Beauty products reviews.

Oh, much better, then. I can see why that’d be popular.

lexo · April 13, 2017 9:08AM

tallest skil said:

lexo said:
Haha. No, she does make-up and Beauty products reviews.

Oh, much better, then. I can see why that’d be popular.

But best believe, a little cleavage is always needed..well sometimes. Haha

Atomic77 · January 27, 2018 3:49AM

Truth be told nothing is ever really free. We all end up paying somehow. That’s just how it is.

Philander · July 21, 2018 1:43AM

Yeah, lots of ads in every channel while watching songs or another thing. This really irritating all the time.

tallest skil · July 21, 2018 5:28AM

YouTube is consistently shutting down the ability to play straight MP4 streams of its videos, to the point where there’s a very specific sequence of events that you have to do (and an even longer number of actions you can’t take) in order to get a native player in iOS. Without the native player, you can’t Picture in Picture or full screen, and for me that makes YouTube totally useless. HookTube used to be my go-to because of this. It ALWAYS gave the native player. But Google decided to shut them down, and now I’m getting stuck again.

If we ever reach a point where the native player is totally inaccessible, I will never use YouTube again for any reason. You hear that, google? You’ll never finish that profile of me.

gatorguy · July 21, 2018 5:47PM

tallest skil said:

YouTube is consistently shutting down the ability to play straight MP4 streams of its videos, to the point where there’s a very specific sequence of events that you have to do (and an even longer number of actions you can’t take) in order to get a native player in iOS. Without the native player, you can’t Picture in Picture or full screen, and for me that makes YouTube totally useless. HookTube used to be my go-to because of this. It ALWAYS gave the native player. But Google decided to shut them down, and now I’m getting stuck again.

If we ever reach a point where the native player is totally inaccessible, I will never use YouTube again for any reason. You hear that, google? You’ll never finish that profile of me.

TS, it's not likely Google even knows who you are. At best you're an Advertising Identifier number.

oliv88 · September 6, 2018 7:47AM

Philander said:

Yeah, lots of ads in every channel while watching songs or another thing. This really irritating all the time.

I can relate to the pain honestly.

grynmacha · October 19, 2018 3:00AM

I know this feeling too well. Being able to play music/sound while using other apps is how Youtube will be able to redeem itself for me.

SmartLJ · October 19, 2018 9:12AM

grynmacha said:

I know this feeling too well. Being able to play music/sound while using other apps is how Youtube will be able to redeem itself for me.

That's not what they gonna do. And those advertisings are a real disaster now. I tried Youtube kids app for my sister so she could watch cartoons without those unpleasant ads. But now there is a lot of advertising content there as well. I just tired of that my sister calls me all the time to skip the ads...

YouTube is now trash

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