Today I was gonna watch a ~14 minute video on YouTube while having a quick lunch. After the 1:30 mark, YouTube showed me a five second ad. Fair enough. After 4 minutes, it served me a 30 seconds ad, bit less fun, but fine, YouTube gotta get theirs also. After 6 minutes they showed me a 1 minute ad, and now I started getting frustrated. At the 7 minute mark they tried to show me another 1 minute ad, but at that point I just shut off the TV as it's just too frustrating when they're trying to shove in as much ad-time as there is real-content-time.
One of the initial reasons YouTube was better than TV was because it lacked so much ads everywhere. Same for the streaming services. They're quite literally shooting themselves in the foot with adding so much ads...
Now my fingers are itching to build a tiny little service for myself, where I can have a bunch of YouTube channels in a .txt file, and have yt-dlp iterate over them once a day and add automatically to Jellyfin, or something similar, almost solely out of spite. Realistically, I'll probably just avoid YouTube on the TV for a week, until I forget how painful that experience is.
One of the initial reasons YouTube was better than TV was because it lacked so much ads everywhere. Same for the streaming services. They're quite literally shooting themselves in the foot with adding so much ads...
Now my fingers are itching to build a tiny little service for myself, where I can have a bunch of YouTube channels in a .txt file, and have yt-dlp iterate over them once a day and add automatically to Jellyfin, or something similar, almost solely out of spite. Realistically, I'll probably just avoid YouTube on the TV for a week, until I forget how painful that experience is.