YouTube now hides the Skip button for ads until you can use it

Key Takeaways

  • YouTube ad segments can be annoying but have a Skip option available after a few seconds.

  • Users have noticed a change in the Skip button’s display, potentially leading to confusion.

  • The absence of a countdown timer in the Skip button’s usual spot seems to be intentional.

  • rammerEnglish
    3·
    15 hours ago

    I have witnessed this behaviour. A person opened a video in the Android YouTube app and immediately closed it when an ad started playing. Then opened the same video again, closed it, because ads. Opened it a third time and then let it play without ads.

    • Sabata@ani.socialEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      I’ll do this if a website has an inconvenient pop up asking for email, or the cookie consent popup is too big to ignore. I just don’t bother going back. I’m not sicking around to navigate around dark pattern bullshit like that.

    • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      Most people don’t care or they care but not enough to do anything.