• Jimmni@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I have essentially stopped using YouTube at this point due to the ads, and the first time I get 5 unskippable ads will be the last time I use YouTube. I already essentially quit after it stopped being 1-2 20s skippable ads or 1-2 5s unskippable ads, which I thought was fair as long as it was no more than twice in 20-30 minutes. Now I get 2 unskippable 20s ads every time and there really isn’t anything on YouTube I want to watch that much.

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      1 year ago

      I’m already not using Twitch much at all because of that. Even with an ad-blocking extension on the browser, it’s an awful and infuriating experience. You can see how frequent and how long the ad breaks are even through the adblocking. When I use it on my phone that has no blocking, it’s just… I click a random stream to see what the streamer is doing and I get locked into 3 minutes of ads before I can even see that. I usually just back out and close the app when that happens.

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        1 year ago

        If you have a VPN, set your location to Poland and you will not have any ads on twitch. I guess they have some law against it or something.