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What's with these 6 minute long commercials on YouTube? I'll sit through a 30 second commercial no problem but this is fucked up. I had to stop what I was doing, open up the app and reconnect to chromecast to skip it. (imgur.com)

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[–]notappropriateatall 99ポイント100ポイント  (33子コメント)

The advertising on YouTube is out of hand. I use the service a lot less now as a result.

[–]catsx3[S] 28ポイント29ポイント  (29子コメント)

Agreed. A week ago youtube and chromecast couldn't get along but now they get along a little too well.

I was cleaning my room while listening to a playlist of songs and this fucking 6 minute long vegan recipe commercial comes on... Took me right out of the zone. Definitely not targeted advertising either.

[–]Workadis 5ポイント6ポイント  (3子コメント)

dirty vegans stinking up my playlists two!

[–]imsoupercereal 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

I'd be willing to pay a few dollars a month for adless Youtube.

[–]manfly 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

If you install Ghostery.org, you can have adless YouTube for free. I literally haven't watched a YT ad in probably two years

[–]alleycatbiker 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

More often than not, I'll google something, find a youtube video about it, click the link, a non skippable ad starts playing, I close the tab.

It's out of hand indeed.

[–]NearlyBaked 17ポイント18ポイント  (1子コメント)

There is a 30 minute YouTube ad for Destiny.

[–]Baked_Otter 15ポイント16ポイント  (19子コメント)

I got a 37 minute ad for The Last of Us. Really? That game isn't relevant any more!

[–]catsx3[S] 3ポイント4ポイント  (11子コメント)

Totally unacceptable that they're basically throwing infomercials at us like this.

[–]makked 5ポイント6ポイント  (3子コメント)

To be fair it's the advertisers that are setting these long videos as their adverts. Not sure why any advertiser would think it's a good idea to set such a long video, but Google probably should set a time limit. I recall there used to be one, it could be they removed it.

[–]LinguistHere 6ポイント7ポイント  (2子コメント)

It's very simple, actually. Companies set long ads because they don't need to pay anything if users click the "skip" button. It's called TrueView.

I notice all the time that YouTube advertisements will have a super punchy first ten seconds or so, then taper off to something boring (like a long end-card). The hope is that the user will view the important part of the ad, then eventually click "skip" so that the advertiser doesn't need to pay YouTube (and by extension, the YouTuber whose video the ad is attached to).

I've even seen one ad, honest-to-god, in which the spokesperson said something like "Go ahead and click 'skip' now to see your video!" and then awkwardly smiled at the camera for several seconds.

It's disgusting, and I don't know why Google allows it.

[–]sfriniks 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

I think there's a certain amount of time someone has to watch the ad, not just whether or not they hit the skip button. I'm pretty sure if you watch 4 minutes out of a 5 minute ad and then hit the skip button, the advertiser still has to pay.

[–]LinguistHere 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yes, it's 30 seconds, though in practice, most YouTube ads are 30 seconds or less.

[–]Baked_Otter 3ポイント4ポイント  (6子コメント)

It's ridiculous. Our only saving grace is the skip button, but if they remove that, then I'm done.

[–]catsx3[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Agreed but we need the ability to skip ads from outside the youtube app, preferably via the TVs remote.

[–]jimmiefan48 0ポイント1ポイント  (4子コメント)

So you want a completely free service with no ads or you will stop using it? In that case I don't think youtube cares if you stop using their service. You aren't making them money.

[–]Baked_Otter 0ポイント1ポイント  (3子コメント)

I never said that. I'm fine with the ads as long as they stay 15 seconds or less.

[–]jimmiefan48 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

What if they are 15 seconds long only but we get rid of the skip button?

[–]manfly 0ポイント1ポイント  (6子コメント)

Jesus, was it at least skippable?

[–]Baked_Otter 1ポイント2ポイント  (5子コメント)

It was, but with how bad the YouTube app is on Android, I had to reconnect to the Chrome cast and then skip it. Super annoying. I usually just let the 15 second ads play through.

[–]Dublinio 0ポイント1ポイント  (4子コメント)

I can't seem to ever see a skip button on mine? I dunno if it's because I'm using Youtube Adaway or what. If you get an ad sometime, would you mind taking a screenshot so I can see what I'm looking for?

[–]Baked_Otter 1ポイント2ポイント  (3子コメント)

This is what it looks like.

[–]Dublinio 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

Hm, okay. I definitely don't ever see that. I was having to sit through the ENTIRE ad. I'll disable Youtube Adaway and see if that fixes my problem.

[–]Baked_Otter 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

It sucks that adaway makes the ads stay.

[–]Dublinio 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

It used to work to work very well, and I never saw ads on either the app or the Chromecast. It just hasn't updated yet. I dunno if it will at all. I sure hope so!

[–]geezer_ 15ポイント16ポイント  (15子コメント)

I use an xposed module to block them and I never see the ads.

[–]internetguilt 3ポイント4ポイント  (14子コメント)

Which module?

[–]geezer_ 9ポイント10ポイント  (13子コメント)

YouTube AdAway by Wanam.

[–]internetguilt 3ポイント4ポイント  (12子コメント)

See, I use that one too but I still get ads both on Chromecast and mobile. I don't understand how it seems to work for everyone except me.

[–]SrslyCmmon 10ポイント11ポイント  (4子コメント)

I've had to block at the router level to prevent youtube preroll ads. Works well enough and I don't need to worry about my family nagging me.

[–]gozasc 10ポイント11ポイント  (0子コメント)

Care to share your setup? Router model? Stock or custom firmware? What hosts do you block?

[–]WillWorkForMoney 9ポイント10ポイント  (0子コメント)

The curses of being technologically adept: your family nags you because of Youtube's ads. "SRSLYCMMON TURN OFF THE COMMERCIALS"

[–]ednofranco 5ポイント6ポイント  (1子コメント)

Care to explain?

[–]sickmate 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

Most routers have something like a firewall built in where you can block traffic from specific hosts.

[–]geezer_ 1ポイント2ポイント  (5子コメント)

Is it enabled?

[–]internetguilt 1ポイント2ポイント  (4子コメント)

Yep!

[–]2four 0ポイント1ポイント  (3子コメント)

Updated?

[–]internetguilt 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

Yes, updated as well as enabled.

[–]jimmiefan48 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Do other xposed modules work? Because I have no issues with it.

[–]Rohaq 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

The module only blocks it on the phone app; the Chromecast app is different entirely, it just communicates with the phone app.

[–]peeinian 5ポイント6ポイント  (4子コメント)

The other day I had an ad start playing in the middle of a 6 minute video.

[–]scaredofsalad 15ポイント16ポイント  (3子コメント)

That's a setting selected by the video creator. They can choose to have an ad inserted into their video to increase their revenue.

[–]chazzlabs 8ポイント9ポイント  (2子コメント)

Sounds like a good way to simultaneously decrease your view count.

[–]LinguistHere 4ポイント5ポイント  (1子コメント)

Yes, midroll ads are highly controversial. Most YouTubers, even those who rely on YouTube for their primary income, refuse to use them. Luckily, it's explicitly an "opt-in" feature rather than an opt-out, so it's pretty rare to come across a channel that has midrolls enabled.

[–]Antoniomike7 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

YouTube for PS3 has had them from the get-go, super annoying since I had to turn on the controller to skip them, and now they're here too, great.

[–]pa79 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Recently, some YT videos just didn't want to start playing. Only after temporarily disabling Adblock did they play. What's up with that?

[–]jimmiefan48 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

They like revenue? They are trying n to work around the ad block.

[–]huntmol 1ポイント2ポイント  (5子コメント)

On Nexus Player you can just use the remote to skip ads, I can't imagine how annoying that must be on Chromecast.

[–]oaklandnative 0ポイント1ポイント  (4子コメント)

You can skip the ads exactly the same way on a chromecast.

[–]huntmol 0ポイント1ポイント  (3子コメント)

Oh weird, I guess I've just never run into one this long on my chromecast before. How?

[–]oaklandnative 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

The same way you skip any ad on YouTube. Press "Skip Ad" after five seconds (for ads that are skipable).

[–]furious_20 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

6 is nothing. Jameson Whiskey had an 18 minute ad on YouTube I once encountered. Never buying their piss in a bottle for that very reason.

[–]imgladimnothim 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Is there a way for content creators to limit the length of commercials played on videos from their channel? There should be at least some option of that sort.

[–]deftdrummer 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I was sitting there in the living room with the Chromecast connected in the standby screen when out of nowhere a fucking 3 minute advertisement started playing. Not happy about this.

[–]BWoodrum 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

I can see the "Skip Ad" icon on the screen. Were you unable to skip the ad from your phone?

[–]evilgold 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

The more people block ads, the more obnoxious the ads become for the people who don't block them. That 6 minute ad makes up for 12 people with adblocking who missed out on 30 second ads. Eventually someone at youtube will realize that the model isn't sustainable and youtube will find some other way of making money, until then they will keep getting longer or more frequent for the folks who can't or won't block ads.

[–]admonishment 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I've never seen an ad longer than around 3min. Is this an American thing?

[–]keepinitcool 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

Get Ublock from google chrome to block all that shit, even those really long annoying ads on youtube.

[–]catsx3[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

I'll look into it however I generally prefer to use my phone or tablet as my Chromecast remote.

[–]keepinitcool 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Well if you have a computer at your service you can also use your phone as remote to your computer.

[–]MeditatedMind 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

I have adblockers on all my devices. Haven't seen an ad in several years (unless I'm using someone else's device).

[–]StrikingCrayon 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

What do you for the content you want to support?

[–]MeditatedMind 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

For websites, I add them to a whitelist. For YouTube I don't do anything. I hate commercials.

[–]qdhcjv 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Wait, you can't skip after ~5 seconds like usual? I don't ever cast YouTube.

[–]SqueezyCheez85 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

Yeah... It's so difficult to pick up your phone and select "skip".

[–]visualthoy 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

It is when the youtube app continually disconnects from chromecast. No other streaming app I have has this problem (netflix, vudu, twitch, etc)

[–]steampunkIcarus 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

YouTube is broken as fuck for everyday users and there's strong need for a new video streaming service.

[–]Dublinio -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

Does anyone know if you still get ads if you use an alternative player? I want to try and share videos to a different app instead of using Youtube.

[–]shpongleyes -2ポイント-1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I generally don't like ads on youtube either, but sometimes they're actually pretty good. The targeted ads are great sometimes. I'm into music, and synthesizers in particular. I saw a youtube ad for an Arturia Microbrute synthesizer (obviously targeted, since it's a pretty niche market), so I actually watched the whole thing and looked it up afterwords, since I hadn't heard about it before. A couple weeks later I was a proud owner of one. I play it all the time and absolutely love it, and I wouldn't have known it existed if it weren't for a targeted youtube ad.

That and Breadstick sandwiches from Olive Garden. Saw an ad on youtube for them last week and went to olive garden the next day. I was totally okay with that advertisement as well (although that one probably wasn't targeted, or they target to everybody who loves Olive Garden breadsticks...aka everybody).

[–]G_O_ -3ポイント-2ポイント  (9子コメント)

Same here. It is extremely annoying. Another reason that I am glad that I also have a Roku Stick.

EDiIT: I use the remote.

[–]catsx3[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (5子コメント)

Does the roku not display ads from YouTube?

[–]G_O_ 0ポイント1ポイント  (3子コメント)

They do, but I do not have to go back to my phone to skip it. I can just use the remote.

[–]GODZiGGA 4ポイント5ポイント  (1子コメント)

But in the case of the Chromecast your phone is the remote. What is the difference between using one remote to stick ads vs. the other?

[–]G_O_ 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Well on the Chromecast you set up your playlist/TV queue and probably leave your phone to the side. But if an ad pops up, you have to go back and unlock your phone go to the Youtube app and skip it. And sometimes the app acts weird on my phone too. With the Roku, i can just press one button on the remote and not have to go through all of that process. It saves a couple seconds haha.

[–]catsx3[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Ahh, got it.

[–]Bad_Grammer_Girl -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

I use the adfreetime service to block ads. This includes youtube ads, and works flawlessly with my Roku 3 (or any other device that I am using through my router.)

[–]justeducation 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

No Youtube ads on Roku Stick? Maybe they haven't rolled out yet. At first I was only getting ads on my XBox 360. Now I am getting them on my Chronecast too.

[–]G_O_ 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

They do, but I do not have to go back to my phone to skip it. I can just use the remote.

[–]justeducation 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I got to get me one of them new TVs with the pause button on the remote. It is so annoying to have to turn on my phone, wait for Wi-Fi to reconnect, wait for Youtube to reconnect before I can pause Youtube.