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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

YouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads!

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YouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads!

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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Users on Reddit are reporting that they're now seeing 90-second unskippable ads on YouTube's TV app, even as policy restricts them to 30 seconds.
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    Is that available for TVs?

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      https://smarttubeapp.github.io/

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        Anything for WebOS (LG TVs)?

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          I’d suggest:

          https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/shield/

          Or

          https://plasma-bigscreen.org/ + https://cachyos.org/ + https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine + https://github.com/supechicken/waydroid-androidtv-builds

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            Big no thank you to anything Nvidia. Plasma Bigscreen doesn’t seem production-ready yet, by the looks of its web site. Either way, that would require me to get a PC and run its output to my TV, right? I’m unfortunately not considering that option right now.

            CachyOS, Steam Machine, I already have a beast Arch Linux PC that I game on, so that’s not necessary. But what about that Waydroid business? Would I flash that on to my LG TV and run that as its OS or what is that about? All of these github projects that people link to do such a terrible job of explaining what it is exactly that they offer, and what to do with them.

            Thanks for the recommendations.

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          I haven’t tried it, but NTH on the SmartTube telegram chat recommended https://github.com/webosbrew/youtube-webos

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            Would that allow me to log in to my YouTube account, watch my curated recommendations, thousands-of-items Watch Later list, watch shorts, etc, just without ads?

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      We definitely need to develop apps for TVs. YouTube has a great advantage because it is there by default.

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