No excuse for YouTube adverts being so intrusive
YouTube might justify its crackdown on ad-blockers by saying that adverts pay for people to place videos on the site, but that doesn’t excuse the adverts from being so intrusive (Issue 671, page 7).
I’ve just finished an evening of watching several YouTube videos covering a variety of topics, and every one had adverts every five minutes or so. These ads burst on to the screen with no warning. Wham, bam, give us your money!
Nobody questions that ITV needs adverts to survive – without them, just imagine how much more the TV licence would cost. But they don’t interrupt your viewing every five minutes. You also know roughly when they’re coming, particularly if you spot the cue marker dot in the corner.
Until YouTube realises that it should treat viewers with more respect, I’ll continue to look for ways to block adverts. Like Gordon Johnston (Issue 671, page 41), I’ve found that watching YouTube in Brave’s incognito mode (pictured below) seems to block them. If that stops working, I’m sure
