OriginalAppleGuy

gotten ridiculous since Google bought them. The commercials make watching videos horrible. Have them up front, not every 10 seconds. And now this? It's laughable they don't have an app on the VP and go after someone that allowed a better experience than watching in a browser. I continue to look for other platforms and only go to You Tube when I have to. 

Regular TV interrupts shows to show ads, so YouTube does as well. I’m most definitely NOT defending this practice, but if you DON’T skip the ads at the beginning, you’ll get fewer-to-no ads interrupting the video, don’t skip those either. If you’re a frequent skipper, you get more ads and longer ads, and eventually UNSKIPPABLE ads.

Just mute the video, do something else for the length of the ad, and after a while of this you’ll be able to watch YouTube videos almost entirely uninterrupted.

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YouTube - has gotten ridiculous since Google bought them. The commercials make watching videos horrible. Have them up front, not every 10 seconds. And now this? It's laughable they don't have an app on the VP and go after someone that allowed a better experience than watching in a browser. I continue to look for other platforms and only go to You Tube when I have to. 

Without a decent Ad Filter Youtube nowadays is unwatchable.

I don't use an ad filter on YouTube and have yet to see an ad. 

For the low cost of two Pumpkin Spice lattes's, you never have to see one either.  How easy can it be to avoid ads, and gosh it saves way more than the price of aggravation compared to the cost of a subscription.  I've always considered it weird that folks can afford a so-so or worse lunch a few times a month, but paying less than the cost of a single one for a media service is something beyond their budget.