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I didn’t bother with ad blockers till last year.

But YouTube got so bad, they seem to force you towards premium at the moment.

Minute long ads forcing me to interact on chrome cast. It’s a pain.

I don’t mind paying for a good subscription but it’s gotten a bit crazy. Spotify, YouTube, Netflix, Disney, prime, regular tv. You can lease a cheap car for that combined.

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I repeatedly got 30min long ads and they are so repetitive that I really wonder why anyone pays money for them. What's the point in showing me the same ad 50 times per week?

You watched 25 hours worth of the same ad per week?? /s

In all seriousness, I would guess seeing the ad so much would mean you have more brand awareness of it?

Usually the 30-minute ads are total scam spiels for fake products or bunk science. I let one play just for grins to see how long it runs.

And I get them on Megadeth HQ album videos. Not generally the kind of audience that goes for these specific things being advertised.

Ads are targeting to the viewer not the video. So megadeth fans might not like the product but someone willing to watch a 30 minute ad about it probably really likes it.

Now I have this mental image of Holy War playing only for there to be a record scratch and some guy going "join Anglicanism, we have cake."

There’s are alternatives to all this shitshow: consume a lot less, read books instead and dust off those torrent clients.

RSS style torrent feed where i could auto download ripped episodes of my favourite YT shows would be dynamite. No waiting no buffering no ads.

With Plex there's a way to set this up without too much headache if you're technically inclined. Bonus for Plex doing the same thing for TV show and movies.

That was basically popcorn time. Don't know if it's still around.

This is what I’ve done. I was never “into” YouTube so don’t get the hubbub, but for movies and TV shows a good public tracker and Transmission are great.

Add a cheap ereader and libgen and even better. Better than that? A cheap paperback.

Even without pirating things, I couldn't imagine subscribing to all those things at once. The rare times a good movie comes out, my wife and I buy cheap tickets, that's it.

Soulseek is really awesome. There was one uploader with 3 petabytes but haven’t seem him online recently.

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