Sadly YouTube has become a NO GO site. I am willing to watch an ad for a video I want to see, but so often with youtube content I dismiss the video within 5 seconds of it starting. I am not willing to watch 2 minutes of ads to find out if I want to watch the video in the first place.
My take is the video format is terrible and should not exist in the first place anyway, so I live happily far away from all the yt drama.
For instance it was the WWDC this week and all the sessions are video. Most of them could be articles instead and it would be much better/useful. (Thankfully they provide full searchable transcripts now, so at least there’s that…)
I do watch videos: TV Shows and movies. Which I pay other services to provide for me.
On desktop most ads YouTube gives me allow skipping after 5 seconds. Most of the ones that don't allowed skipping at 15 seconds or less. In back to back ads if the first cannot be skipped the second almost always can be skipped after 5 seconds.
Ads are longer on my Fire TV Stick but almost never is the total time that cannot be skipped more than 30 seconds.
Now I'm curious what other people are seeing? Is what I'm seeing closer to what most people see or is what you are experiencer closer to the YouTube norm?
What alternate sites are there?