I just tried to look up a specific video of a Nick Swardson stand up bit. All I searched was “Nick Swardson loitering”. There were 5 fucking ads before an actual user posted video, then one real human posted video that barely had anything to do with Nick, then 5 more fucking ads.

I knew they were forcing ads into videos but clogging the entire search feed with ads is unfuckingbelievable.

Is this really what it’s come to? Ads are more important than what I’m actually looking for? Are people really okay with this?

  • neidu2@feddit.nl
    11·
    3 months ago

    YouTube is unusable without ReVanced or (insert preferred method for adblocking here)

    • aaron@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      SponsorBlock (alongside an ad blocker) is great for skipping ad reads plus a lot of other annoying bullshit.

    • asudox@lemmy.world
      41·
      3 months ago

      Grayjay is amazing. It also supports different platforms like PeerTube, Odyssey, Twitch, etc. Revanced hasn’t been working for me for a while now.