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My youtube experience:

- open video

- 2 unskippable ads

- click somewhere in the video to skip the creator's sponsor section (more ads)

- 2 more unskippable ads

- video plays, the original audio was automagically replaced by a dogshit 1995 tier "ai" dub

- it's not the part I wanted to see, click somewhere else

- 2 more unskippable ads

At that point I spent 5 minutes watching ads and forgot why I came here...



My experience - ublock lite. Haven't seen an add for ages. Watch two seconds of creator's sponsor section then skip to next bit.


Add sponsorblock to skip those sections automatically as well.


Youtube is squeezing more and more to push subscribing to premium. Youtube is where "everything" is - they know they can squeeze hard, where else are you going to go?

Ironically it looks more and more like TV with the non stop ads and sponsors.


Either pay for their Premium service or use uBlock Origin (Firefox) + SponsorBlock. Otherwise YouTube is unusable.


Use the Force .. err use Newpipe


try Brave browser




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