YouTube on Roku extraordinarily long unskippable adds

[Rmay635703]

For some reason at the end of videos
my mom sometimes actually wants to watch the 20-30 minute YouTube adds which sometimes are very similar to the videos she watches anyway. (Dogs, health bs, natural dogfood)

I was there and noticed one she wanted to watch was unskippable and 25 minutes long. When it ended another very long unskippable one queued up on a topic she didn’t care about.

Had to back out and find the next video she wanted manually.

Thankfully these adds don’t appear to occur “mid-video” but bloody el, why does giggle think this is a good idea?

It’s not like anyone in the household uses an add blocker.

 

[goblin]

Go Back > click Ok to get back to the video, if it shows the same remaining time - Back again > Ok again to get back to the video. It won't skip the ad, but at some point will throw you to a 5 sec one.

 

[Rmay635703]

Go Back > click Ok to get back to the video, if it shows the same remaining time - Back again > Ok again to get back to the video. It won't skip the ad, but at some point will throw you to a 5 sec one.

On her old Roku there are very few options to do that.

We did hit back but it sends you home, the actual reporting option in the corner was removed recently

 

[goblin]

I wonder if the Youtube app is too old.
Back would usully jump you just out of the vid, not all the way to the main menu.

 

[KCJeep]

After suffering through a 4 minute ad for I don’t even remember what to watch a 4 minute video, I threw in the towel and signed up for premium. Turned out to be money well spent in my case, YMMV.

 

[eljefino]

After suffering through a 4 minute ad for I don’t even remember what to watch a 4 minute video, I threw in the towel and signed up for premium. Turned out to be money well spent in my case, YMMV.

You showed them!

 

[dishdude]

After suffering through a 4 minute ad for I don’t even remember what to watch a 4 minute video, I threw in the towel and signed up for premium. Turned out to be money well spent in my case, YMMV.

Almost everything I watch is on YouTube, for me Premium is well worth it.

 

[Rmay635703]

I’ve never seen 20+ minute unskippable adds before. This is something new, thankfully they only occur after you’ve watched a video and have selected (or let it play through) to the next.

You can always skip end of video adds by just going home so this seems extraordinarily stupid, it just makes it so you have to manually search and navigate to the video you wanted to watch next.

By doing this google has just made the Roku app more cumbersome for no gain

I wonder if the Youtube app is too old.
Back would usully jump you just out of the vid, not all the way to the main menu.

I should clarify it goes to the YouTube home not the Roku home.

Each time she goes to the YouTube home of videos it’s re-randomized with different for you videos

 

[2002 Maxima SE]

I remember when I cut the cord back in 2013 and purchasedmy first Roku device. The entire draw for streaming was cutting the expense of cable TV and no commercials. The same was the draw for Sirius and XM satellite radio (later merged) which came out in early 2000. Today, both have subscription costs on top of advertising.

 

[BobsArmory]

Ublock origin and firefox takes care of all those issues for free

 

[factorytuned2012]

someone has to pay the bills

 

[JohnnyG]

It gets worse.
Now if you hit the wrong button, you get an email from Amazon!

 

[2002 Maxima SE]

Ublock origin and firefox takes care of all those issues for free

Does not apply to Roku devices.

 

[supton]

Thankfully I have not seen this yet. But I've noticed that on some of the longer videos I watch, the further in I get, the more frequent the ads become. I get it, they have to make the money somehow.

 

[Skippy722]

Ublock origin and firefox takes care of all those issues for free

Neither of which you can install on a smart tv/roku box. And 99.9% of people aren’t going to go through the trouble of plugging a computer into their tv or jailbreaking a streaming box.

If she watches a lot of YouTube I can’t recommend premium enough. YouTube music is also pretty decent which is included.

And the ads aren’t always YouTube’s doing… the creator can place ads that are skippable or unskippable as well.

 

[Owen Lucas]

YT will soon be inserting ads at the moment of peak interest, which is when YT has determined, either through re-winds or some other factor, the most favored part of the video. Most likely a premium upcharge for advertisers as the viewer is the most engaged at this moment. I think will ruin many videos.

 

[Bottom_Feeder]

I've never heard of a 20-30 minute long unskippable ad in YouTube. If it's that long, it's not an ad.

 

[Pterostylis]

I have had that happen a few years ago on a non-Roku device. It only lasted a couple of days and then the skip button for excessively long ads returned.

 

[dbias]

After suffering through a 4 minute ad for I don’t even remember what to watch a 4 minute video, I threw in the towel and signed up for premium. Turned out to be money well spent in my case, YMMV.

I did also. It includes YouTube music which integrates seamlessly with apple carplay in my GTI. It replaces my Sirius XM subscription so not much more money and I get add free YouTube videos and music.

 

[Pablo]

My beef with goog is a person pays full boat for you idiot tv and you dip premium videos separately- no discount for both as a package