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Oh My Gosh! The ads are putting Youtube right at the edge of being unusable to me.
Two unskippable ads upfront + frequent ads during the video + ever repeating ads banner at the bottom…
I just had to switch it off.
The experiences reminded me nothing but the TV experiences when I was young.
In China, TV programs are free and some small stations (usually at the county-level) just bombarded audiences with ads to break even. Sometimes, we had to watch 1-hour ads for 5 mins of the show, to the point I could not even recognize the show.
People gave them up the first chance they got and before long these county-level stations were all closed down by “Policy”.
Having experienced that, I for sure wont put myself in that situation again.
Luckily, I have more...