YouTube viewers will soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on a popular app.

YouTube viewers will soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on a popular app.

  • awake@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    9·
    11 hours ago

    Theres also the possibility to use a VPN and log in from Albania (I think) to avoid ads altogether because they’re not legal there.

    • 42Firehawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
      11·
      10 hours ago

      It is Albania. I will say that it’s more correct to say that YouTube chooses not to send ads to Albania, rather than Albania banning it.

      Albanians anti ad laws state that ads are required to be safe for children, with the platform being responsible for failure… So Google is not spending the effort to make the ads safe.

      • awake@lemmy.wtfEnglish
        2·
        6 hours ago

        I didn’t know it is the other way around (Albania ban vs. YouTube not playing ads)! Thanks for elaborating.