YouTube has started hiding the Skip Ads countdown
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YouTube now hides the Skip button for ads until you can use it

Key Takeaways

  • YouTube ad segments can be annoying but have a Skip option available after a few seconds.

  • Users have noticed a change in the Skip button’s display, potentially leading to confusion.

  • The absence of a countdown timer in the Skip button’s usual spot seems to be intentional.

  • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
    38·
    2 months ago

    It’s funny how I’ve learned I hate ads more than I want to watch the content I’m sometimes and I end up just instantly closing the video if an ad starts.

    But that of course is only if I screw up and I’m not using ad blockers.

    • rammer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      I have witnessed this behaviour. A person opened a video in the Android YouTube app and immediately closed it when an ad started playing. Then opened the same video again, closed it, because ads. Opened it a third time and then let it play without ads.

      • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Most people don’t care or they care but not enough to do anything.