For context I’m in the US. The last time I used YouTube without an ad blocker, there were 2 ads back to back, and way too frequently. I tried watching on my PlayStation tonight, and not only are they more frequent, they’ve increased in quantity by 150%. It’s also very common for the last ad to last 2 minutes to over an hour long. What the actual fuck, why would anyone watch YouTube without an ad blocker at this point? It’s literally unwatchable

Edit: the amount of unsolicited advice in the comments is unreal. I don’t get ads on my phone or on desktop, I’m very aware of how to block them. I simply won’t watch YouTube on my PlayStation anymore. I’m not looking for suggestions, please stop with the recommendations.

    • Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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      10 months ago

      Did you try it?

      From a technical point of view, YouTube ads are YouTube videos. So from a DNS point of view, you can’t block one but still continue to watch the other

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      10 months ago

      Not on a tv you can’t. They host ads on the same domain the videos are on, so blocking ads blocks the actual content as well.