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Youtube ad frequency vastly different on new TV

uno99
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Hello everyone, recently upgraded my TV from a Visio P55c1 to a Hisense 65u88g. 

I noticed while using the new tv YouTube app that it was serving me ads at an astonishing rate. Certain videos are worse than others but I've timed the intervals and it's literally every 3:30 minutes between ads.

I shrugged my shoulders and thought maybe YouTube is just getting greedy but then I realized that my old Samsung TV in the bedroom gets almost no ads. I get one at the beginning of a video and SOMETIMES one midway through a 20-30 minute vid.
What's going on? My new TV is almost unwatchable.

 

 

 

 

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Yeah, Youtube has a weird system going on.

On my Ipad I get way less ads than on my phone, same account on both, but I logged into my phone ages ago

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1 minute ago, Origami Cactus said:

Yeah, Youtube has a weird system going on.

On my Ipad I get way less ads than on my phone, same account on both, but I logged into my phone ages ago

I am wondering if hisense is getting a kickback somehow... The difference between the Samsung and hisense is astonishing.

 

My big question is - is there a fix?
I know I can stream from my computer which has adblock but that kind of sucks... Gotta get my lazy ass off the couch to pick a new video.

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2 minutes ago, uno99 said:

I am wondering if hisense is getting a kickback somehow... The difference between the Samsung and hisense is astonishing.

 

My big question is - is there a fix?
I know I can stream from my computer which has adblock but that kind of sucks... Gotta get my lazy ass off the couch to pick a new video.

If it is a smart TV could sideload youtube advanced, minus the "ad", but this is hard to find now due to official source not existing any more. Could set up pihole for whole home also.

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6 minutes ago, Origami Cactus said:

If it is a smart TV could sideload youtube advanced, minus the "ad", but this is hard to find now due to official source not existing any more. Could set up pihole for whole home also.

Right... I forgot about pihole. Never tried it before but it's a good option I guess.

 

It's a shame because I want to support content creators but ads every 3 minutes is just unwatchable.

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You probably have a way older Youtube app version on your other TV, from times where ads weren't that frequent. Or the app version simply doesn't support in-video ads, which was introduced after the fact.

 

I also noticed, the more the youtube app gets updated, the more ads i have.

 

Afaik there is no way to "downgrade" the app on most TV's.

If someone did not use reason to reach their conclusion in the first place, you cannot use reason to convince them otherwise.

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On 6/27/2022 at 5:13 AM, Stahlmann said:

You probably have a way older Youtube app version on your other TV, from times where ads weren't that frequent. Or the app version simply doesn't support in-video ads, which was introduced after the fact.

 

I also noticed, the more the youtube app gets updated, the more ads i have.

 

Afaik there is no way to "downgrade" the app on most TV's.

Yeah the bedroom samsung is quite old. The new Hisense is a great TV just unwatchable for certain youtube videos. I find it varies shockingly from one channel to another. Do content creators get to decide how many ads to push? LMG videos for example are almost zero ads, some are every 3-4 minutes.

And my Pi hole didn't seem to help. Wasted time setting one up and expense of buying a new router.... But at least it works for other things.

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On 7/4/2022 at 10:39 PM, uno99 said:

Yeah the bedroom samsung is quite old. The new Hisense is a great TV just unwatchable for certain youtube videos. I find it varies shockingly from one channel to another. Do content creators get to decide how many ads to push? LMG videos for example are almost zero ads, some are every 3-4 minutes.

And my Pi hole didn't seem to help. Wasted time setting one up and expense of buying a new router.... But at least it works for other things.

Creators can influence this to some degree. For example they can turn mid-video ads on and off completely. But idk if they can decide how many mid-video ads pop up when they're enabled.

If someone did not use reason to reach their conclusion in the first place, you cannot use reason to convince them otherwise.

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Not to do with display, but when I open a video in incognito I get s lot more ads than if I don't, may be better I am not logged in then, not sure.

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As a user with Youtube Premium, I'd really recommend it, but I'm also one of those people who has 77 hours of "time watched" in the last 7 days. Great for travel and when you know you're going to be in areas with spotty reception or don't want to hit your phone's data limits with the downloads being allowed.

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On 6/25/2022 at 11:42 AM, uno99 said:

My new TV is almost unwatchable.

Here is how i solved that problem on my TV. 

 

  1. Get HDMI cable
  2. Get USB C to HDMI adapter
  3. Connect Adapter to Macbook Pro
  4. Connect HDMI to TV and to HDMI adapter 
  5. Setup TV as secondary display
  6. Install Ad Blocker in your favorit Browser
  7. Profit. 

I just want to sit back and watch the world burn. 

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Just get the YouTube Premium, it is worth to get instead of playing with hassle blocking this and that. 

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