Google To Allow Double Serving Ads
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Well, it seems to be official now. Starting April 14, 2025 Google will update its Unfair advantage policy to say it is allowed to show the same ad, from the same company, going to the same page, as long as the ad is in a different ad location. Google was just experimenting with this earlier and now it is officially going to be allowed.

Well, it seems to be official now. Starting April 14, 2025 Google will update its Unfair advantage policy to say it is allowed to show the same ad, from the same company, going to the same page, as long as the ad is in a different ad location. Google was just experimenting with double serving ads earlier and now it is officially going to be allowed.

  • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
    52·
    5 days ago

    Watched something on YouTube on my TV for the first time last week. Never again. 12 minute video had like 6 or 8 ads, 2-3 were 30 seconds. Fuck. That.

      • NotSteve_@lemmy.caEnglish
        9·
        5 days ago

        SmartTube is the best. There was a small period of time recently where it stopped working and it was so bad going back to regular YT that I just stopped watching entirely.

      • RandomPrivacyGuy@lemm.eeEnglish
        8·
        5 days ago

        I love SmartTube. Every time someone comes over and they want to play something via YouTube, they’re like: “holy fuck, no ads? skipping straight to music part? this is divine technology”

    • Zarxrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      5 days ago

      Yeah, normal YouTube is totally unwatchable. If you have a Roku device, the Playlet app can let you watch without ads. There are probably methods for other devices too.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      5 days ago

      Yeah, it’s not worth it. Maybe sometime I’ll get something like pihole set up so YouTube is usable on my TV, but for now, I just plug in a laptop w/ proper ad block.

      I’d totally pay for YT if it was reasonable for my usage. But I honestly watch so little that their monthly sub just isn’t worth it for me.

      • HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth
        4·
        5 days ago

        I have a pihole and the youtube app on a smart TV. Trying to block the ad domains from the TV just bricks the app. Maybe I’m doing something wrong but, I got no luck.

        • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
          10·
          5 days ago

          You can’t block youtube ads with DNS blocking; youtube serves ads from the same domains it serves the actual video from.

          You need a custom youtube client like Revanced.

          • HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth
            1·
            5 days ago

            Yeah I figured they went the Twitch approach. Desktop YouTube I still have ublock for, but there’s no hope for the TV.

      • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        I’d totally pay for YT…But I honestly watch so little that their monthly sub just isn’t worth it for me.

        I’d pay for it if their first-party experience wasn’t so horrific and gave me any control over my feed.

        • Alex@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          5 days ago

          I pay for it so the TV and web experience is ad free. I use PipePipe on my phone because the native client won’t stop pushing shorts at you.

          • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
            1·
            5 days ago

            I pay for it so the TV and web experience is ad free.

            Yeah, I mean, you don’t need to pay for it to get that.