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YouTube viewers will soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on a popular app.

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[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Anyone got an app to sideload or method of getting adfree youtube, lg, android os or apple

[–] parzival@lemmy.org 4 points 1 week ago

I already stopped using YouTube on my tvs native interface without adblock after I saw several 1.5m ads

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

The true global power emerging from all of the dystopic activities, including tech and business greed, is advertising.

[–] Mio@feddit.nu 4 points 1 week ago

All i read is that nobody will be watching all these ads and YouTube will have to shutdown.

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

It's like people sit around thinking, " How can I wreck some shit?"

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

They also started forcing logins on an Android tv I have yesterday when I checked the update version, thankfully there's apps like smarttube that aren't made to be garbage on purpose, which can be easy to install if you for example

Tap for spoilerdownload AFTVnews downloader then use code 28544 for the stable release.

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