I love a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy, but it is simply not plausible to believe that Google is trying to turn YouTube into a paid pirate stream site by blind-eyeing illegal content uploads and annoying users into paid subscriptions by ever-increasing ad load. For one thing, the company has really deep pockets and is very easy to find. Actual pirate streaming sites are much more ephemeral and have negligible assets that rightsholders could go after.
I don't see ads on my desktop or my Chromebook due to ad blocking, but the ads I see using my Chromecast with youtube on the TV really don't bother me. Typically I see one 15s ad every 3 music videos, and I use that time to take a short breather, think about what I want on next, refill my glass, whatever. I guess they are a bit more frequent than they used to be but they haven't crossed my annoyance threshold yet for that sort of content. I suppose if the ads get longer and more frequent I'll just download
On longer content it's now common for the stream to be interrupted with ads, they don't just play at the beginning. We watch youtube sometimes on our fire tv stick. Probably I should try pihole but I'm between pis.
Doesn't seem very likely (Score:5, Interesting)
Google seems to have a really, really,
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I don't see ads on my desktop or my Chromebook due to ad blocking, but the ads I see using my Chromecast with youtube on the TV really don't bother me. Typically I see one 15s ad every 3 music videos, and I use that time to take a short breather, think about what I want on next, refill my glass, whatever. I guess they are a bit more frequent than they used to be but they haven't crossed my annoyance threshold yet for that sort of content. I suppose if the ads get longer and more frequent I'll just download
Re:Doesn't seem very likely (Score:2)
On longer content it's now common for the stream to be interrupted with ads, they don't just play at the beginning. We watch youtube sometimes on our fire tv stick. Probably I should try pihole but I'm between pis.