Google Ads on TV are gone from little to Many. More pathetic then Indian Channels

[Futureized]

Watching content on a family members account via Youtube on TV, noticed that Ads are forced every few minutes. (few times upto 2 minutes non-skip ads)
More ads then the Indian Channels (zee, sony, new channels, etc.) worst user experience.
Is it just me or anyone else ?

 

[TEUser2K1]

Agree with opinion.
Is it me or are there just more adult content ads ?
Now a days, children to old people nearing death face onslaught of soft prawn / dual meaning ads ? Anyways to control the kind of ads casted ?

 

[prime]

Anyways to control the kind of ads casted ?

Create a new google account for youtube and give minimum permissible age may be??

 

[6pack]

Agree with opinion.
Is it me or are there just more adult content ads ?
Now a days, children to old people nearing death face onslaught of soft prawn / dual meaning ads ? Anyways to control the kind of ads casted ?

go into google account setting and disable specific genre of ads. Only works if you switch on ad customisation. Then we can disable ads for alcohol, gambling, finance, games, etc Lot of the soft porn ads are related to gambling and games.

 

[Ssreek]

Basically they are forcing us towards premium subscription.

 

[t3chg33k]

I have always used some adblocker or the other, so honestly have seen only about a dozen ads on YT over the past decade.

However, despite still using uBlock Origin, Revanced, SmartTube, I switched to a shared Premium subscription with a new account as it is a common account in the family and means no one else is subjected to YT ads.

Also Google is shifting features server side like the higher 1080p option for videos or being able to watch videos for songs within the YT Music app. Also noticed some videos struggling for playback on SmartTube which work fine in the official app, indicating Google is actively trying to fight adblocking on every platform.

Of course, spending ₹1/day for premium is palatable but if the pricing goes crazy, then probably will have no reason to even purchase Premium.

 

[Heisen]

Of course, spending ₹1/day for premium is palatable but if the pricing goes crazy, then probably will have no reason to even purchase Premium.

Whatever the pricing will be in future, on thing for certain is you'll be paying the lowest price among all the other countries.

 

[Ssreek]

Paying for avoiding ads is fine to an extent but hearing that some part of that premium subscription revenue goes to those cringe youtubers who make junk content, is disappointing.
Not saying all are so, but majority of them are.

 

[Mr.J]

Whatever the pricing will be in future, on thing for certain is you'll be paying the lowest price among all the other countries.

That doesn't matter when earnings are also low.

Of course, spending ₹1/day for premium is palatable but if the pricing goes crazy, then probably will have no reason to even purchase Premium.

Not 'if pricing goes crazy' but when 'pricing goes crazy'. Google is abusing it's dominant position in the market.

Also, who's to say they won't have ads in premium plan in future?

Lastly, Google doesn't check which ads it is serving to people. Why tf should I put myself or my family at risk by allowing ads?

Warning issued over “inadvertent” spread of malvertising on Google Dynamic Search Ads

The malvertising campaign represents a novel case in which threat actors were unaware of the success of their campaign

www.itpro.com

Google ads lead to major malvertising campaign

Fraudsters have long been leveraging the shady corners of the internet to place malicious adverts, leading users to various scams. However,...

www.malwarebytes.com

Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuine

Google-verified advertiser + legit-looking URL + valid TLS cert = convincing lookalike.

arstechnica.com

 

[kiran6680]

If we pay to get a premium account, then Google makes an even better connection between all the videos we and our family watches. Without premium, at least we can use private browser windows, keep clearing browser profiles, resetting devices etc.

On PC/laptop, fadblock seems a much better browser extension solution, than ublock etc, because fadblock still loads the ad. Google isn't aware of the ad blocking in this case - and if they try, fadblock can close the loopholes better.

 

[calvin1719]

Paying for avoiding ads is fine to an extent but hearing that some part of that premium subscription revenue goes to those cringe youtubers who make junk content, is disappointing.
Not saying all are so, but majority of them are.

What creators get is proportional to how much of their viewership has premium, or rather how many minutes of total viewtime of their video was from accounts with premium. It's not like Google is blindly splitting it amongst all the creators.

 

[nRiTeCh]

Not too long but someone suggested some router level adblocker in some thread. It claimed to block even those annoying naggy video ads when we browse chrome esp. on phone.

 

[jinx]

Not too long but someone suggested some router level adblocker in some thread. It claimed to block even those annoying naggy video ads when we browse chrome esp. on phone.

DNS/IP level blocking won't work with YouTube video ads as the actual videos are served from the same server which serves the ads. So if you block the ads, the videos won't play as well. Any ad blocking has to be done on the client side.

 

[TheShrike]

I've installed smarttube on all my tvs and uninstalled YouTube. Since it's exactly like YouTube client, nobody had a problem using it.