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The only times I've put up with ads so far is when casting to my TV.

I don't mind the ad recommendations on home and after a video, but having to watch an extended ad or 2 before a video, and continuosly throughout the video, is enough for me to get off YouTube as an entertainment platform.

Still useful for tutorials, but that much advertising makes the experience completely unenjoyable. Doubly so if the ad has to be "skipped" or else will run for 3 minutes, and I'm in the middle of something with hands occupied (cooking, working out...)

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Am in the same place... I consume YouTube on my SmartTv (native app on LG WebOS).

Am contemplating buying a Chromecast with Google TV, and installing SmartTubeNext on it, just so I can escape the ad barrage: - 2 ads on video start, unskippable - multiple (at least 2) 2 ad breaks during even a 10 minute video, almost always unskippable.

And the worst thing? It's the same 5-10 ads that you get!... they rotate in and out on a weekly basis, but the sensation is you see the same frickin ones over and over again! I don't work in marketing, but if I ever get to speak to someone who does, I'll definitely tell them that repeatedly seeing your ad will definitely put me off your client's product, even if it is the best choice on the market.

I already own a Chromecast Ultra, but it sits unused for more than a year now.

I'll never get YouTube Premium. I (maybe) can afford it, but it's too much for what I get in return.

It can be much worse. The NHL used to play the same ad, many many times throughout a game, often multiple times in a row. They would also play that same ad for the entire season. We used to watch with remote in hand at all times, ready to mute at any moment. I honestly considered it inhumane. Thankfully ESPN handles games now and they are much more "normal" on how they do ads.

There is a saying in marketing, I forget the specific words, but it can take up to 5 repeated views of the same ad for someone to make their mind up about buying a product.

you spend so much time on YouTube that you feel the need to hack together an ad skipping solution by plugging stuff into your TV and installing dubious sounding software. Just do a simple math of watch time in hours / per month (youtube provides these metrics), take around 10-15% of that time as ad time, multiply by your calculated income / hour and you'll be surprised by how much value there is in premium.

You'd be surprised how much value there is in just paying people to stop hitting you in the face.

You don't want to make inconveniencing you profitable for others.

I was watching my kid use YouTube, and literally every time she's shown an ad on TV, quick as lightning, she goes into the menu that handles complaints about the ad and tells it "never show me this ad again". Which also ends the ad break.

You can pay to turn off ads. There I saved YouTube as an entertainment platform for you.

We've seen this movie before: You can pay to turn off ads all the way up until YouTube decides to change the bargain.

You can also install uBlock Origin.

https://drhyperion451.github.io/does-uBO-bypass-yt/

It’s like $16/month which is insane

im good. for entertainment SoundCloud and netflix are good enough, youtube just makes good recommendations. not worth >$100/year

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