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YouTube is now hiding the skip button on mobile too(www.androidpolice.com)

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Key Takeaways

  • YouTube ad segments can be annoying but have a Skip option available after a few seconds.

  • Users have noticed a change in the Skip button’s display, potentially leading to confusion.

  • The absence of a countdown timer in the Skip button’s usual spot seems to be intentional.

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Sas [she/her]@beehaw.org
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The website interface on mobile works well enough and on mobile Firefox you can install ublock origin. Made me uninstall a bunch of apps and use their web version instead.

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baduhai@sopuli.xyz
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Long live NewPipe.

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red@lemmy.zip
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no age restricted video is huge no, so I’ll still stick to revanced

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bigbrowncommie69 [any]@hexbear.net
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If they made YouTube Premium a reasonable price I’d be more than happy to pay and I’m sure many people would to. I don’t need YouTube Music, offer me a cheaper package without it. They’re leaving so much money on the table and basically inviting people to used Vanced and shit instead.

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ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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You will watch the super bowl ad. You will drink the verification can.

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yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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It’s funny how I’ve learned I hate ads more than I want to watch the content I’m sometimes and I end up just instantly closing the video if an ad starts.

But that of course is only if I screw up and I’m not using ad blockers.

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rammer@sopuli.xyz
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I have witnessed this behaviour. A person opened a video in the Android YouTube app and immediately closed it when an ad started playing. Then opened the same video again, closed it, because ads. Opened it a third time and then let it play without ads.

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Sabata@ani.social
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I’ll do this if a website has an inconvenient pop up asking for email, or the cookie consent popup is too big to ignore. I just don’t bother going back. I’m not sicking around to navigate around dark pattern bullshit like that.

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Auli@lemmy.ca
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Most people don’t care or they care but not enough to do anything.

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