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YouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads!
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this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2026
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No, I don't see them and the day I cannot block ads anymore is the day I am going to stop using YouTube. It's really not that important to life.
why wait? Give invidious a try, or see if any if the creators you follow also uploads their videos in PeerTube or odyssey or something... The YouTube's I do follow does that its good.
I know of PeerTube and like the concept. Out of my 57 subscribed channels only 2 are available via PeerTube, 4 more are available on other sites. I hope this will improve. I'm not using the normal YouTube interface. I've customised it to my needs with injected scripts plus additional cosmetic blocking, e.g. I filter out unwanted search results and removed all shorts. For now it works well enough. Anyway, I'm already in the process of reducing YouTube consumption.
I use Grayhay since it makes it so all platforms I follow are on there and I can easily download videos if I want, plus follow people like Louis Rossmann on peertube, YouTube, if they have patreon or nebula there too.
I don't think they'd give a shit if you left, it's not like they're making any money off you.
... Why would I care if they miss me?
Why would I care about their opinions at all? I'm pretty sure we care about each other's opinions about equally as is.
Are you under the impression that Bad_Ideas_In_Bulk is one person? Physically they might be, but their words represent a massive amount of people. I think millions of people would stop watching if they had to endure youtube without adblock.
And given that YouTube probably loses money money on those people, I don't think they would miss them.
Oh, I don't care if they care about me. The attention of my comment was to express how unimportant YouTube has become for me.