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Frustrated YouTube viewers seek explanation for hour-long unskippable ads (Update: Statement)
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this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2025
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They are won by arms dealers.
In this case though the arms dealers make the arms for free so I'm kind of okay with it
And all of it could have been avoided if google just audited/policed the ads it served. No sane person minds watching a 5-10 second add every 10-20 minutes to support the platform.
But rather than spend money expanding their ad department to audit and police the adds, they are spending gobs and gobs of money trying to force people to see view virus-delivering ads, racist ads, blatant misinformation, etc.
No one wants to be forced to spend 30 minutes watching a pragerU video on how the black man should be grateful for slavery and all the "good" its brought him
But that seems to be the world that google wants.
If they limited the ad time in videos, ad time would be worth more.