They’re really testing the patience of users without Premium. The real solution will be to stick to watching YouTube only on Firefox with an adblocker. Their aggressive push actually makes me even less interested in purchasing Premium.
Whenever I pause a video for over 5 minutes, I get a minute of ads, then the video plays for 5 seconds before more ads come on. The ads are getting longer and fewer of them are skippable.
YouTube is unusable without an adblocker.
A few years ago, occasional ads were manageable. Now, there are long, unskippable commercials every few minutes. It feels like nearly half of my YouTube watching time on TV is spent on ads.
Corporations still believe that people aren’t buying their products simply because they haven’t heard about them yet.