It seems that Google’s thirst for money has aroused the rage of users, and rightly so, because as we can see on Twitter through several users upset by Google’s behaviorYouTube is testing placing 5 or 10 non-skippable ads before videossomething that can take us more than a minute to see, as if it were traditional television.
This also means that Google’s income will multiply if this system is implemented definitively, since we generally have to settle for seeing one or two ads that we cannot skip to be able to access the content we want to see, but in this case, it would be up to 10 ads.
Definitelyit is a very big push for users to choose to purchase YouTube Premiumthe paid subscription to the platform that allows us to watch videos without ads on any platform with our Google account, in addition to coming with other benefits such as playback in the background.
Whatever the reason for this change, it is not the first time that an increase in displayed ads has been noticed, since initially an increase in the frequency of non-skippable double ad appearances was observed some time ago.
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Jordi Bercial
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