Good. I have zero connection to any MLMs but somehow ~80% of advertising on YouTube and other platforms is for obvious pyramid schemes. Looking forward to be served “normal” ads instead (that’s a weird thing to say...)
Companies that do zero advertising and are largely considered excellent brands.
Someone tell this to Youtube. I dont know if the majority of YT users are unable to hear but there is no reason for a 5 second ad to be above my highest volume setting.
Rant over.
Finding solutions on mobile isn't as straightforward (unless it is and I'm an idiot) and I would wager a decent amount of YT traffic comes from mobile users via the app.
On Android there's plenty of choice. NewPipe is a dream[1]. Firefox with uBlock Origin works well. There's Kiwi (Chromium) with uBlock Origin too.
How hard would it be to implement an ad blocker browser extention to do it? Query an api endpoint with a video ID to find out start and end times for the ad and automatically skip over it. Allow users to volunteer to submit those ad times to build up the database. It would be limited to browsers, but it would still be something.