YouTube, in a quest to make more money for themselves, took it on themselves to enable 'mid-roll ads' AND 'un-skippable ads' on all videos on all channels. This means that, overnight, you - the viewer - suddenly had to endure 2, 3 and 4 times as many ads during a video than before. It creates a LOUSY viewing experience and I apologise. To make matters worse, while it is possible to take off mid-roll and un-skippable ads I can only do it video-by-video which is taking time and energy to do. In their greed, YouTube took the liberty of switching these kind of additional and intrusive ads for ALL of my 750+ videos posted over the last 6 years.
The interface doesn't allow 'bulk' changing of settings, so all I can do is ensure that every video I publish from now on has those kinds of ads taken off and, whenever I have a spare half hour, I can plough my way through those 750 videos turning them off one by one.
It seems that YouTube is trying to make the viewing experience so poor that viewers will opt for a subscription model. When that happens, YouTube will be happy because instead of having to 'share' its earnings with content creators, it will be able to keep it all for itself - and leave creators looking for new ways to make money 'influencing'.
Sam Deeks
YouTube, in a quest to make more money for themselves, took it on themselves to enable 'mid-roll ads' AND 'un-skippable ads' on all videos on all channels. This means that, overnight, you - the viewer - suddenly had to endure 2, 3 and 4 times as many ads during a video than before. It creates a LOUSY viewing experience and I apologise. To make matters worse, while it is possible to take off mid-roll and un-skippable ads I can only do it video-by-video which is taking time and energy to do. In their greed, YouTube took the liberty of switching these kind of additional and intrusive ads for ALL of my 750+ videos posted over the last 6 years.
The interface doesn't allow 'bulk' changing of settings, so all I can do is ensure that every video I publish from now on has those kinds of ads taken off and, whenever I have a spare half hour, I can plough my way through those 750 videos turning them off one by one.
It seems that YouTube is trying to make the viewing experience so poor that viewers will opt for a subscription model. When that happens, YouTube will be happy because instead of having to 'share' its earnings with content creators, it will be able to keep it all for itself - and leave creators looking for new ways to make money 'influencing'.
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