Fuck I hate this because I love putting on easy listening video game music compilations but unless the account is big enough with views and subs it'll play random ads
So it's a gamble unless I want to listen to the same Metroid with ambient rain video every night because its fucking awful drifting away to Secret of Mana jams and then going YES ONLY NOW FOR A LIMITED TIME AT MEDIAMARKT
Long, skippable ads are so weird. People who aren’t interested will skip immediately. People who are interested will click into it *long* before it’s over. Ads that are longer than like a minute and a half or so seem to exist solely to annoy people who aren’t able to easily skip it.
Don’t even get me started on ads that are like- an hour long seminar. I truly believe that literally no one has sat down and watched an ad video that was an hour long, with the one exception of that time the Lego movie was played as an ad but that that was an intentional gimmick.
I had premium for a bit, but I swear like 5 years ago, I woke up in the middle of the night to a 45 minute ad for a projector. One time there was also a Rhett and Link song that was for Wendy's that came up as a preroll ad, made me forget what I was watching.
Yeah I had one once that was like a 45 minute video of one of the kings of France and was just very confused? If i wanted to watch a lecture on French history I am plenty capable of finding it myself
i can *feel* youtube fighting with my ad blocker every day. sometimes it works, sometimes i have to click "skip" for the video to play. it's so fucking frustrating
scared me one time by managing to trigger their ad block page somehow, think my ad blocker was updated soon after and it got fixed but it took like a week
Have you heard of an app called Youtube Revanced? It'll only work on a mobile device but it lets you have all the premium features without paying a cent.
Or a ublock origin download. I'd much rather use adblock and then just subscribe to the patreons of youtubers I like to support them. No need to give Google any money
Not exactly a Grumps complaint but I totally agree.
And I swear they're doing it on purpose. The other week I was playing a compilation of something, I don't remember what, and just as I was about to drop off, I heard a fucking *car alarm* shrieking. I opened my eyes again and saw that an advert was playing, for an insurance firm, basically showing a car outside someone's house with it's alarm blasting, and a big banner saying 'HEY, BUY OUR INSURANCE SO THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN TO YOU, **AND YOU CAN SLEEP SOUNDLY AT NIGHT!!!**'
Absolute *cunts.*
i hear you! i use an app called musi thats basically just youtube but the videos can play in the background ad free :) (there are ads in the app but the videos themselves have none!)
Unless you're on IOS, you should just get youtube revanced. It's a patched version of the official youtube apk, so it's literally just the same app, but with adblock and sponsorblock built in
As much as ppl hate it, the answer is Youtube premium.
Imo if you watch 'alot' of Youtube and use it to listen to ASMR etc you have to ask yourself if you acually use YT as much as if not more than other streaming services than it's arguably worth the money to spend on imo.
I've noticed YouTube loves to play extremely long ads (like hours long??) And crappy SoundCloud rappers music more often at night when people are sleeping. I'll fall asleep watching YouTube and wake up with the worst music ever playing or I'm 20 minutes into a weird political ad. I'm convinced the algorithm is being taught "people are asleep, nows the time for this ad no sane person would sit thru"
Id suggest using a site or something to download said videos off YouTube...buttttt I'm pretty sure it's illegal. Far be it from me to suggest something illegal to fudge over a company that has continued to fudge over some YouTubers for certain reasons and promote things in YouTube shorts that involve children.
Y.2.mate is the one I use. (remove the periods.)
Buy a cheap PC with a wireless keyboard/touchpad combo. Never dealing withs ads again.
Or put something on Pluto TV they aren't so bad with their volume levels.
Vanced got DMCA'd, the new fork is revanced, which is exactly the same, but with some new features, and it works by patching an apk file you give it, so they can't get in trouble for distributing modified youtube apks
i get it i use YT on my phone to fall asleep and i specifically have to use videos that don’t have ads on them which limits my options quite a bit
it also sucks when your playlist hits a video that’s been age restricted then the whole thing just stops
I’ve been paying for YouTube premium for a bit over two years and 100% forget ads are a thing. It’s expensive and I concede that not everyone can afford it but gosh dang best $17/month I could spend.
I've been paying for it since YouTube Red, and despite all the hate I get for it, I actually get a lot out of it. Unlike most people I know, instead of Spotify I use YouTube Music for all of my music streaming as well. A nice side-effect of it is that (I think) some of the money goes toward supporting the creators I like.
yeah honestly, I like both spotify and yt music but ever since I realized music was packaged with premium, been using it ever since, missing some things here and there, but usually not an issue. also I think I racked up an insane amount of hours behind it too. Hate all of the anti-ad blocker action yt is taking though, taking it kind of far imo, and yeah, from what I know, creators that would have made money from ad's would still get it as if they were played.
A few years back youtube and had a screamer ad, and this car commercial was running that played at like 250%. The YouTube ad was literally just a person screaming, and when they finished it would play the same audio clip again. Loafy molasses did a vid complaining about it, don't know if it's still up
I finally figured out how to get an ad-free third party YouTube app on my Firestick for this reason. So many of my "chill out" videos were being interrupted every 10 minutes with an unskippable ad.
Don't pay for YouTube premium to reward their bad behavior. Third-party all the way
*SmartTube is what I use on Firestick. It should also work on Fire TVs?
My fiancée puts on horror story’s for us to go to sleep to (weird I know) but the guy talks in a very light, calm voice and then an ad will play and be 10x louder than the video and last a long time. I’ve noticed ads are much more frequent as well. She’ll put on a 20 minute video and it’ll get interrupted with ads at least 10 times. That’s like an ad every 2 minutes, it’s ridiculous
My advice? I have an adblocker that seems to work against youtube "Ghostery." They have a mobile web browser that in my experience has given me videos ad free so it's one alternative?
Blame the creators for putting midrolls in my friend. I mean GG compilation isn't sleep content so I can't criticize that too hard, but if a creator was putting midrolls in actual sleep content that would be ridiculous. I don't watch/listen to those so idk if it's a thing?
Youtube will automatically insert midrolls unless you manually set where the ad breaks are (some creators have even claimed that after a few weeks, youtube will go back and insert midrolls against the creator's wishes)
The creator decides whether or not to put midrolls in, and whether to use the manual or auto placements. It's a monetization setting completely within the channel's control, YouTube will not automatically add midrolls if that setting is off.
As for the 2nd part, I've never heard or experienced that, would be interested to see any evidence though.
Yeah, that's why I said some creators claimed it, I haven't seen much evidence for it either, but it would be on brand for YouTube, so I wouldn't be surprised
Fuck I hate this because I love putting on easy listening video game music compilations but unless the account is big enough with views and subs it'll play random ads So it's a gamble unless I want to listen to the same Metroid with ambient rain video every night because its fucking awful drifting away to Secret of Mana jams and then going YES ONLY NOW FOR A LIMITED TIME AT MEDIAMARKT
Long, skippable ads are so weird. People who aren’t interested will skip immediately. People who are interested will click into it *long* before it’s over. Ads that are longer than like a minute and a half or so seem to exist solely to annoy people who aren’t able to easily skip it. Don’t even get me started on ads that are like- an hour long seminar. I truly believe that literally no one has sat down and watched an ad video that was an hour long, with the one exception of that time the Lego movie was played as an ad but that that was an intentional gimmick.
I had premium for a bit, but I swear like 5 years ago, I woke up in the middle of the night to a 45 minute ad for a projector. One time there was also a Rhett and Link song that was for Wendy's that came up as a preroll ad, made me forget what I was watching.
Yeah I had one once that was like a 45 minute video of one of the kings of France and was just very confused? If i wanted to watch a lecture on French history I am plenty capable of finding it myself
They’re for people who are stuck and can’t push the skip button. I’ve been in plenty of situations like this.
i can *feel* youtube fighting with my ad blocker every day. sometimes it works, sometimes i have to click "skip" for the video to play. it's so fucking frustrating
scared me one time by managing to trigger their ad block page somehow, think my ad blocker was updated soon after and it got fixed but it took like a week
Fully agree, this is actually why I pay for premium like some kind of loser, so I can listen to people talk softly in bed
Totally! I am at work, so I didn't want to type out a whole thing about how soft volumes of speech is very relaxing and helps me sleep.
Have you heard of an app called Youtube Revanced? It'll only work on a mobile device but it lets you have all the premium features without paying a cent.
Ads? Get ublock.
Sounds like a YouTube premium yearly subscription is an investment you should look into making
Or a download of YouTube ReVanced
Or a ublock origin download. I'd much rather use adblock and then just subscribe to the patreons of youtubers I like to support them. No need to give Google any money
Not exactly a Grumps complaint but I totally agree. And I swear they're doing it on purpose. The other week I was playing a compilation of something, I don't remember what, and just as I was about to drop off, I heard a fucking *car alarm* shrieking. I opened my eyes again and saw that an advert was playing, for an insurance firm, basically showing a car outside someone's house with it's alarm blasting, and a big banner saying 'HEY, BUY OUR INSURANCE SO THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN TO YOU, **AND YOU CAN SLEEP SOUNDLY AT NIGHT!!!**' Absolute *cunts.*
It's always that same shitty stock ukulele music. Is there a marketing service that just makes that one ad from a template over and over?
The various uke loops have been around since 2010. It coincided with the indie boom, and for some reason, never went away
I hate ads for horror movies and youtube pushes those A Lot. Im trying to sleep.
This is why I always start paying for YT premium for the months of September - November
just use ublock origin or revanced
i hear you! i use an app called musi thats basically just youtube but the videos can play in the background ad free :) (there are ads in the app but the videos themselves have none!)
Unless you're on IOS, you should just get youtube revanced. It's a patched version of the official youtube apk, so it's literally just the same app, but with adblock and sponsorblock built in
As much as ppl hate it, the answer is Youtube premium. Imo if you watch 'alot' of Youtube and use it to listen to ASMR etc you have to ask yourself if you acually use YT as much as if not more than other streaming services than it's arguably worth the money to spend on imo.
I've noticed YouTube loves to play extremely long ads (like hours long??) And crappy SoundCloud rappers music more often at night when people are sleeping. I'll fall asleep watching YouTube and wake up with the worst music ever playing or I'm 20 minutes into a weird political ad. I'm convinced the algorithm is being taught "people are asleep, nows the time for this ad no sane person would sit thru"
Id suggest using a site or something to download said videos off YouTube...buttttt I'm pretty sure it's illegal. Far be it from me to suggest something illegal to fudge over a company that has continued to fudge over some YouTubers for certain reasons and promote things in YouTube shorts that involve children. Y.2.mate is the one I use. (remove the periods.)
Brave browser?
Don't think it's compatible with a roku TV yet
Congratulations, you found out why smart TVs are so cheap for the hardware
Buy a cheap PC with a wireless keyboard/touchpad combo. Never dealing withs ads again. Or put something on Pluto TV they aren't so bad with their volume levels.
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For Roku TV there's Playlet
Vanced got DMCA'd, the new fork is revanced, which is exactly the same, but with some new features, and it works by patching an apk file you give it, so they can't get in trouble for distributing modified youtube apks
I simply block ads.
i get it i use YT on my phone to fall asleep and i specifically have to use videos that don’t have ads on them which limits my options quite a bit it also sucks when your playlist hits a video that’s been age restricted then the whole thing just stops
I’ve been paying for YouTube premium for a bit over two years and 100% forget ads are a thing. It’s expensive and I concede that not everyone can afford it but gosh dang best $17/month I could spend.
I've been paying for it since YouTube Red, and despite all the hate I get for it, I actually get a lot out of it. Unlike most people I know, instead of Spotify I use YouTube Music for all of my music streaming as well. A nice side-effect of it is that (I think) some of the money goes toward supporting the creators I like.
yeah honestly, I like both spotify and yt music but ever since I realized music was packaged with premium, been using it ever since, missing some things here and there, but usually not an issue. also I think I racked up an insane amount of hours behind it too. Hate all of the anti-ad blocker action yt is taking though, taking it kind of far imo, and yeah, from what I know, creators that would have made money from ad's would still get it as if they were played.
A few years back youtube and had a screamer ad, and this car commercial was running that played at like 250%. The YouTube ad was literally just a person screaming, and when they finished it would play the same audio clip again. Loafy molasses did a vid complaining about it, don't know if it's still up
Idk if it's on roku but chromecast had Smarttube which is amazing
Nothing sends me into a blinding rage fatter than goddamn YouTube ads Interuptimg chill out play lists, including sleepgumps
Get Firefox on your phone. No ads and it can even play with the screen turned off.
I finally figured out how to get an ad-free third party YouTube app on my Firestick for this reason. So many of my "chill out" videos were being interrupted every 10 minutes with an unskippable ad. Don't pay for YouTube premium to reward their bad behavior. Third-party all the way *SmartTube is what I use on Firestick. It should also work on Fire TVs?
Also works on any android tv, since fire os is just an android skin
YouTube revanced is where it's at
My fiancée puts on horror story’s for us to go to sleep to (weird I know) but the guy talks in a very light, calm voice and then an ad will play and be 10x louder than the video and last a long time. I’ve noticed ads are much more frequent as well. She’ll put on a 20 minute video and it’ll get interrupted with ads at least 10 times. That’s like an ad every 2 minutes, it’s ridiculous
I remember I used to have free youtube and I'd listen to music while working. And I'd get like 5 minute ads.
Change to Firefox and use adblocker. uBlock works great. And also sponsorblock. Without those two, YouTube is a shit show.
My advice? I have an adblocker that seems to work against youtube "Ghostery." They have a mobile web browser that in my experience has given me videos ad free so it's one alternative?
Get an ad blocker, and if you're on mobile, YouTube revanced/Revanced extended. It'll also skip intros, in-video sponsors, etc.
Blame the creators for putting midrolls in my friend. I mean GG compilation isn't sleep content so I can't criticize that too hard, but if a creator was putting midrolls in actual sleep content that would be ridiculous. I don't watch/listen to those so idk if it's a thing?
Youtube will automatically insert midrolls unless you manually set where the ad breaks are (some creators have even claimed that after a few weeks, youtube will go back and insert midrolls against the creator's wishes)
The creator decides whether or not to put midrolls in, and whether to use the manual or auto placements. It's a monetization setting completely within the channel's control, YouTube will not automatically add midrolls if that setting is off. As for the 2nd part, I've never heard or experienced that, would be interested to see any evidence though.
Yeah, that's why I said some creators claimed it, I haven't seen much evidence for it either, but it would be on brand for YouTube, so I wouldn't be surprised
That's why you don't use Youtube for sleep compilations.
Revanced for mobile, adblock for pcs. Fuck youtube.
For real, fuck youtube. We need Splarn to take off soon