Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to

Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days ago

YouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads!

www.androidauthority.com

983

YouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads!

www.androidauthority.com

Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to

Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days ago

YouTube users are now seeing 90-second unskippable ads (Updated: Official statement)

www.androidauthority.com

Users on Reddit are reporting that they're now seeing 90-second unskippable ads on YouTube's TV app, even as policy restricts them to 30 seconds.

Chat

Soulphite@reddthat.com
link
fedilink
English
arrow-up
16·
9 days ago
Also Youtube: DONT INSTALL UBLOCK ORIGIN OR WE’LL REMOVE YOUTUBE SHORTS!!!

Viewers:
- nieceandtows@programming.dev
  link
  fedilink
  English
  arrow-up
  6·
  9 days ago
  Wait what? I have had ubo installed forever. Why is my shorts still there?!
- k0e3@lemmy.ca
  link
  fedilink
  English
  arrow-up
  2·
  8 days ago
  Wait, they’re willing to reward us for using UBO?

Technology@lemmy.world

technology@lemmy.world

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !technology@lemmy.world

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related news or articles.
Be excellent to each other!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

3.59K users / day
8.97K users / week
14.7K users / month
14.8K users / 6 months
1 local subscriber
83.8K subscribers
1.02K Posts
21.5K Comments
Modlog