What I really hate is that YT puts ads on non-monitized channels

KZfaq went downhill when they started doing double ads

Remember when ads on KZfaq where just pop up ad that you can click X on?

If KZfaq wants us to stop using ad blockers, THEY NEED TO MODERATE THE ADS

KZfaq forces you to disable your ad block (sometimes) and the first time I did it, I got hit with a *seven hour ad* immediately. thank god the adblocker bypasses it now

I love how KZfaq has deluded themselves into thinking that Adblocker developers won’t just update their software to accommodate any changes they might make to Ads. All they are doing is driving more people into using Adblockers.

At some point people are going to start harassing companies that advertise on KZfaq in order to get back at KZfaq.

A quick reminder that Sony has a patent for a form of advertisement where the viewer has to watch the entire ad and exclaim the ad’s name at the end in order to end the ad.

Gabe Newell once said: "The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates." KZfaq is doing the opposite.

Why is it so hard for these companies to understand that slapping their customers in the face is not good business

"Here is the math formula, feel free to pause to write it dow-" SIX DOLLAR SHRIMP SPECIAL

Not only that there are too many ads, they repeat the ads too. I would be filthy rich if I got a dollar for every SHEIN and Temu ad I got.

Ive installed full adblock and sponsor block on youtube. 5 seconds of ad's before a video was fine, but having to watch two 15 second ads with midroll ads in between for a video is insane.

We are literally living the South Park episode where the Ads take over.

KZfaq slowed down my laptop, Google made my download speed slower because of this new system, and now I’m going outside, hitting the gym, and coming back home to uninterrupted videos, I’m not wasting money for an “Ad-Free” experience if I fan use an AB, I’ll wait if my stuff’s slow, just not spending the money.

Idk who else but there's been ads that have been complete scams as of the last few months. And at this point there's going to be minutes of ads on a 10 minute video 💀

And this is why we don't forgive Susan for her god-awful actions on KZfaq. Yes, the loss of her son was sad enough. However, this does not excuse her for disabling dislikes, censoring comments, wrongfully flagging videos, and deliberately shoving down ads and KZfaq as a whole should be 100% guilty of this.

Bring back single ads

“You will like more ads” honestly reminded me of a little thing that feels really dystopian: when you go to the button to block a specific ad, a) it shows up again another time and b) there’s the option to “Like” it. Liking. An ad.

KZfaq forgot that the whole reason why people originally started flocking towards the website in the first place: people wanted entertainment and didn't want to deal with all the BS from things like cable TV. Then KZfaq started shoving ads down everyone's throats, then they started allowing the cable TV dinosaurs onto the website, and now, we have the same back-to-back unskippable ads that you can find on TV. At this point, KZfaq may as well just start being a cable TV channel

Bring back only single ads, and make sure the ads that come our way aren't horrendously terrible, then I'll consider dropping my adblock.

Man if there's people saying "boo-hoo it's just ads get over it" either have vested interest, haven't experienced the ad-pocalypse themselves yet, or are being intellectually dishonest with the intention of being a contrarian. These types need to take a long walk off a short pier. Also the technique youtube are using is called 'enshittification' where they initially provide good service to get you hooked, then moan about server costs (2015 news reports) and then implement the squeeze where they push and push as much good will out their customers and content creators as possible to serve their shareholders.

KZfaq really is asking for a full armed revolution

There used to be a way to skip the ads by going onto the little options tab and clicking 1 of 3 choices. Now when i do it, i get sent to some ad customization page on youtube. This is bad enough to because most people have sponsers that are actually better suited for the demographics of the channels. But then the video has 4 ad breaks anyway. Its starting to turn into cable ads. 30min ad breaks for a 15min show.

Reminder that the current CEO is the same guy who wanted NFTs on youtube

I keep getting a glitch where I skip the ad but if then starts to play another ad.

'Member when KZfaq have yellow bars so you know when a ad is going to play? Oh yeah. I 'member.

Every KZfaq video after the first one I watch, I will scream at my phone “not every video needs to have ads”

The irony is that it took ages for this video to play because of ads 😂

At this point I’m convinced KZfaq don’t care about any of us just the ones who give is scammy ads or any ads that just spam us

Any ad that I happen to see on YT I go out of my way to absolutely NEVER buy.

I am more inclined to pay an adblock dev. Unsung heroes.

KZfaq falling for the trap the killed Television is hilarious

"If you want to combat piracy, make sure what people get for paying is better than what they can get pirating" - same applies for ad blockers.

I definitely noticed a huge increase in ads yet again within the past week. It's annoying when videos with previously no ads, have not just ads at the beginning and end of videos, but now every few minutes. Give me a double ad close video, reload video, they decided to start me with more unskippable ads, close video reload, close video and reload until the beginning ads disappear. 40 second video with a 20 second unskippable ad, close video, reload. I dont hesitate to let them know i hate them more than they possible can hate me.

Tip youtube doesn't want you to know, reporting the ad will make it skip

14 years later, and Black Mirror already predicted this dystopian nightmare of ADS ADS ADS. I’m worried they’ll come to the browser-based blockers next…

KZfaq: (Attempt to) Broadcast Yourself while we run ads longer than your video combined

one ad is annoying enough

Guys use network wide adblockers, they're undetectable, safe, works on all devices, and youtube can't do a thing about them.

Suggestion: moderate your ads, reintroduce side/under the video ad banners, remove long, unskippable pre-video ads, remove mid-video ads. I never used adblock until ads started to get intrusive. Now adblock isn't a luxury, but a necessity to keep you safe on this website.

KZfaq we will fight even harder against you until we win.

If youtube cared about the user experience with the ads on their platform, they'd do a better job of vetting ads, but they don't. All they see is dollar signs, and that's precisely why they are incapable of winning this ad war; THEY TREAT THEIR CUSTOMERS LIKE THE ENEMY.

KZfaq is fighting a battle they cannot win. Never underestimate adblock developers.

KZfaq's fake/hypersexual ads have to be the worst possible thing for this app, the ai and story games that are definitely against tos are being pushed and shown to people children included

Imagine watching a minute ad just to watch a 5 second meme.

I’ve been using Adblock for so long, even if KZfaq had moderate advertising I don’t think I could go back. I’m still winning the battle of being able to use an adblocker. If Adblocks get completely blocked then I guess I’ll finally go outside. I can’t stand ads

They probably don't realize that their campaign is losing them more money than if they just left things the way they were.

getting those unskippable ads , scam ads even those annoying double ads made me use adblocker.

I am someone who does not check their emails unless I am expecting an email. So when Google got rid of Google Play music and put out some notice for people to manually move all their songs and they had like a year to move them to KZfaq Music, I completely missed the memo. I paid for Spotify for a year and didnt use the HUNDREDS of dollars worth of music I bought. When my subscription to Spotify ran out I went to use my music I bought and it was all gone. I looked it up and because I didn't manually move it it was gone forever. Completely wasted my money. My question is with a company as technologically advanced and rich as Google why couldn't they automatically move all that??? That is just one of the reasons I have zero guilt never letting KZfaq run ads. In my opinion I already paid to get rid of them when they took the music I bought. Also why I'll NEVER use KZfaq Music.

Totally not me watching this on Brave. An ad blocking browser. Yup. We will win KZfaq until you change the way you push ads.

I envision that YT will get to the point where any video there will ever be, every 30 seconds or so, there WILL be an unskippable advertisement.

KZfaq has never been a company known for it inelegance

I still remember when youtube advertising was just a banner at the bottom of the video that you could click x on to close it, despicable how far its gone

Now the ads have fake skip button. You watch an ad, try to hit the skip button, and then another one plays....

The pause banner ad would be much less intrusive than what they do now. But they could make much more money from premium if it wasn't bundled with YT music but instead got some value into the offer instead. "Use free adblock or pay us 15 bucks a month for the same thing" just isn't a good enough offer.

Skipping an ad into another ad is wild.

I remember when there were only pop up ads on YT that you could just close with an X in the top right corner. Then they added the long format ads, after that they added double ads. Every time there is an unskippable ad nowadays I reload the vid but I either have to repeat it like 6-7 times now (last year it did the trick after one reload) or the vid just goes back to the start again and I have to find where I was because I was tabbed out. I don't want to hear an ad that's 2-3x louder than the vid I am trying to watch, especially when I am watching the said vid while trying to fall asleep. Besides that I am not getting anything directly for watching the ads that are often horrible oversexualized mobile games for kids or a scam or some beauty product for women. All what YT is doing is just making me lose interest in the video I was watching, simple as that. Unfortunately because of this, I am getting funnelled into shorts, which is a format of content I want to avoid, but it's pretty much the only viable content format because you can scroll away from an ad easily. Now they want these pause ads... When I stop a video because let's say, someone in my family is talking to me, I don't want an ad to keep screaming. I sincerely hope for a better competitor to cause the downfall of the greedy MFs who run this platform.

Optimus: it's becoming far to ridiculous Ad: Allow me to introduce myself immidiately

The problem lies in lack of competition. The reason Twitch and KZfaq get away with decisions like these is because they really don't have any worthwhile competitors.

What's the point of a skip button if you have to watch most of the ad already

Fun Fact: showing an ad of your product will make me hate it even more.

9:59 “yeah I’m downloading an adblocker.” Chrome’s Manifest V3: allow me to introduce myself

I'd happily never watch KZfaq again before I pay for premium

I never hear anyone mention this but KZfaq actually punishes you if you choose not to skip a skippable ad by showing you another ad that may or may not be skippable.

Double ads was when I got an ad block. Wanted to support creators I liked with ads but the double ads was rediculous.

A problem I’ve had for so long is that KZfaq would crash because it wouldn’t load the ads

he came back!!!!!!!!

“I am definitely not AI” Optimus is definitely AI, this confirms it.

The ad blocker stays on then

If you want to stop ads forever, you just got to be *Brave*

I’m already sick of Ads, but it’s just getting worse. KZfaq is actively ignoring the desire of the fans, and the site has started become pure cancer. I’m genuinely one step away from never going on this site again.

YT Premium is NOT an option, i will NOT pay youtube money to keep screwing us over.

KZfaq does something like this, and it just results in more people hating it and thus seeking an adblocker will be become increasingly more prominent. If KZfaq actually fixes the issue such as improving the quality of the ads and have ads that are actually worth watching and offer more than just a product or service.

remember, addiction can only go so far... if youtube really want's to be like this, ill just leave.

Im old. I was around when KZfaq was free and mostly cat videos. Im not paying for something i previously got for free. Ads were fine when creators got to choose if they wanted ads on their videos. Then KZfaq changed to "if your video gets this many views it will have ads anyway" and now it's just "you will have ads on your videos wether you want them or not. You can take the check out not."

I've reached out to KZfaq via social media about this issue. I've had where there was an ad at the end of a video, then I switch to another video and get another ad. I've had a drastic increase in ads (one ad every 45-90 seconds) I've reached out and said that it was annoying for me The only response I received was "I'm sorry, but we don't actually care"

1) I’d be cool if they gave me an option to run ads and get a minimum of 1 hour of no ads in return. 2) give the ability to report ads especially non-relevant content, scams, and overall loudness compared to the current volume of the playing video. 3) if I pay MY phone bill and MY internet ads should not be using MY BANDWIDTH, I’d either like a kickback for each ad or be paid to watch the ad by the company for interpretation.

Im glad you made this. My phone app is the same skip in 5 secs. But on computer and Xbox I get an ad at every 2min mark. every ad is up to 30secs mandatory and up to 99+ secs and almost every one has a 5 secs to skip then goes on re count down 5sec to skip. Even old videos from 4+ years are getting it.

You know, I would be willing to get YT Premium if they actually moderated their mods. Now, I'm willing to pay top-dollar for an Ad-block they can't counter because they don't deserve a single penny from me. I will quit the Internet and just go to doing personal projects and going outside full-time before I would even spit in KZfaq's direction.

YT needs to moderate the ads, then. 99% of them feel like or are just scams.

Everything will go downhill when you forget who runs your platform and all the corporate heads care about is a few more seconds of ad retention when your video is paused

Maybe if you cut your CEO pay maybe you can afford to maintain the platform.

KZfaq is an advertising platform. It doesn’t give a hoot about its viewers as that’s their product. There can never be a “healthy trade off” with companies whose revenue is based on advertising. Ever. It’s inevitable that ads will grow over time because no company wants, nor can keep, their revenue stagnant. As the company grows and requires more expense, who is going to pay for it? Well, with an ad based business model, the ads pay for that growth so ads must also grow. This is why we should never support ad based business models. Those types of businesses offer 0 value to you. They are only valuable to their advertisers. Use ad blockers aggressively. It is now our duty to do so. Stop watching KZfaq through the tv app. Stream from your phone or use hdmi to plug in a computer and stream from there.

They are making everyone watch double ads but our revenues didn’t even increase at all. So this is just a lose lose for everyone except for the people in the higher ups who want to make life harder for everyone.

0:21 I mean a lot of people are quiteing a lot this year also no bring back single ads

Ads are a hill I will gladly take a dirt nap on. I REFUSE to disable my adblock, PERIOD. I'll delete youtube first.

If KZfaq cared, they would give you "premium" no ad features on creators you donate a dollar or more to via their system. Do you know how much that would drive revenue for both creators AND YT?

Ads happen almost every vid click for me. 90% of vids START with ads.

it’s already annoying having unblockable ads on the tv (i use youtube on xbox sometimes, i just report the ad and that skips it, same with mobile before they changed it to load a different page for no reason) so this is just gonna be fun

It wouldnt be so bad if they didn't have ads every 2 minutes in a video. As soon as I'm watching a video on a device that I cant use ad block, I leave the page as soon as the ad starts. The first 5 or 10 second ad is OK for the beginning of a video, then when ads start to load every 2 minutes i leave.

i sit down to smoke and an optimus upload floats down from the paradise above in order to bless my notification box

the really sad part is, companies have done studies on this stuff, adds and how much/many people are willing to tolerate per hour, they have had this info since at least the late 90's, they just choose to ignore it.

The FBI actually recommends ad-blocking software when browsing the Internet in a December 2022 PSA on the IC3 website, this is definitive proof that ad-blocking software is not considered piracy and will never be made illegal.

Lol KZfaq has ads? I haven't seen one in years.

"How's your experience with our ads been?" >Awful *proceeds to put ads in every single video* *FFFFFFFFUUU...*

I remember when they made it back in the day that they gave the ability to curate your ads to make sure you got the ads you wanted to see. And the site gauged your interests based on the way you voted for the ad you were served.

I haven't seen an ad in over a year

Ah yes. The *Return of the King.*

I love sitting through 2 30-second unskippable ads so I can watch my