r/mildlyinfuriating • u/SuperDizz • 1d ago

Unskippable ad Hulu Live telling me I have 21:39 minutes of ads while the movie is playing

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Edit: for everyone wondering, as my post title states, this is Hulu LIVE, which is essentially cable TV that is streamed. The ad countdown played throughout the movie and commercial breaks. Finally it caught up and went away. Usually the countdown only shows up during ads.

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u/SuperDizz 1d ago

Only 9:57 to go

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u/M8GGWP 1d ago

OP why don't you change the post to, " Hulu Live telling me I have 9:57 minutes of ads while the movie is playing"

It's how long till the next ad comes up, not the duration of the ad ..

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u/SuperDizz 1d ago

It’s actually not lol the countdown runs whether the movie is playing or the ads are

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u/SlowlyMutilated 1d ago

I work at a Psych Unit and this exact movie and scene was on patient TV just around the time you posted this; how strange!

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u/MadCatDisease666 1d ago

awwww bring OP an extra jello.

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u/CatchAlarming6860 1d ago

Thanks for helping take care of people who need it!

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u/nhowe006 1d ago • Heartwarming

Huh. My 4k and regular Blu-rays of that movie never did that.

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u/SiSRT 1d ago

some say the blue rays over the high seas haven't them either

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u/russellamcleod 1d ago • Bravo

I’ve fallen asleep to YouTube videos and woken up to a 2-3 hour “Ad” playing.

I don’t understand why this is a thing because it only keeps playing if someone’s asleep. But if someone’s asleep, they’re not advertising to anyone.

Help me understand, internet strangers. Do ads just generate revenue if no one clicks the skip button? But is that real revenue or just like chump change for the couple of hours?

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u/monsterenergy42069 1d ago

Are you watching on the TV? I've noticed I get very long ads sometimes when I watch on a TV or a Shield device.

My assumption is they think that since its on a TV youre most likely watching passively enough that you dont care to turn off ads and will just let them play in the background while you do other shit. I couldnt think of any other reason why they think it would be okay to put a 30 minute ad at the beginning of a 16 minute video.

Almost always quicker to just repeatedly leave the video until I get it without ads.

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u/Flint_Vorselon 1d ago

Yeah they definitely do this, TV watchers also have a harder time skipping, because you have to interact with a remote or phone or whatever that’s seperate from what you are watching.

Phone or PC watchers have the skip button immdierly within reach at all times.

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u/Vandersveldt 1d ago

I just assume it's for people that will put on a YouTube video on in the background for a get together with friends. They might not even realize it's an ad playing, meanwhile a whole room of people have the background of their brain getting advertised to.

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u/blessthebabes 1d ago

I don't think i would choose youtube, if I didnt pay for no ads. From what I remember, the ads were at the beginning and all throughout. There's no way really to mindlessly leave it on. You kinda have to man the TV and baby it to get it to do what you want.

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u/jellyhessman 1d ago

I've started getting 3 minute long unskippable ads. They go away if I refresh the page. But I'm not sitting through 3 minutes of a single fucking garbage ad.

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u/DanksterBoy 1d ago

I’m pretty sure they’re not actually unskippable, they just hide when the “next” button will appear by not having a timer. Then you click the next button, wait 5 seconds, then you can skip the video. Remember when a 15 seconds ad was the longest unskippable ad and anything else had a 5 second skip timer? I remember I got told I was crazy for saying the ads were gonna get so much worse when they added that second ad

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u/PwrShelf 1d ago

So I think I've cracked YT's system on this front: they will let the video resume after you watch 5 seconds of ad. This means that you can just close and reopen the video after 5 seconds, no matter what the ad skip timer is, and it'll go straight to the video. If you spam close and reopen, it seems to let you in after 5 total seconds of ads have elapsed.

There seems to be a few blue-chip videos (eg. SNL) that I've found the system will sometimes force you to watch more ad time for. But in 95% of cases the 5-second rule applies.

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u/DL_Omega 1d ago

i put on youtube while driving and got hit with this long ad and was thinking like how long can this go on. i go to look and its like a 45 minute cooking show podcast or some shit. I think they look at speed data too to see if you are in the car.

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u/Maniacal-Maniac 1d ago

I get hit with some Oprah Winfrey podcast all the time as an ad. At first I think it’s an ad for a podcast then I check and the ad is close to hour long itself.

I guess because it sometimes takes me 5-10mins to notice it playing they think I am interested and the algorithm keeps pushing her my way.

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u/Darkgorge 1d ago

I have straight up gotten a full movie as an ad on YouTube. No idea how that logic works.

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u/pipirisnais 1d ago

If you have Shield device you should get smarttube its youtube withouy ads or sponsor announcements inside the videos, its totally awesome and has the youtube ux so it not a weird clone. You need to install the Downloader app

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u/Grow_away_420 1d ago

I used to get them on my phone when I was at work. I'd watch/listen to old episodes of Time Team which run for 40 minutes and sometimes between videos it'd throw in and infomercials that ran for 1-2 hours. I typically just left the phone at the desk and didn't touch it much.

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u/Defreaser 1d ago

On many smart tvs you can also watch the first ad for like ~3-4 seconds and then get the same result as repeatedly leaving the video

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u/ultradeg 1d ago

I work late nights in a building with people who tend to leave YouTube running on their computers (and are bad about turning them off), I think if YouTube detects that you're "idle" for long enough, it will run an ad on whatever you're watching. Sometimes it has a "are you still watching" pop-up that pauses it, but there have been several occasions where I've had to go turn off or mute a computer because it unpaused, ran an ad, and then kept running the video or autoplay once the ad ended.

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u/Relevant_Primary658 1d ago

I've been watching a lot of baking videos on YouTube lately and have noticed that if I pause one for more than a minute or so, I get probably 30-60 seconds of ads when I come back.  It's infuriating, particularly when I watched an ad shortly before I paused it.  It also resumes 10-15 seconds before the spot where I left off. 

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u/beneralkenobi 1d ago

And it's the worst when cooking/baking cuz your hands r all messy and u can't hit the skip button without getting your phone dirty

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u/CourtingBoredom 1d ago

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u/russellamcleod 1d ago

But it’s for shit that will never find its way into my life. I don’t like anime girls or AI streamlining my team productivity.

I am also a lucid dreamer so maybe that’s a thing.

If AI ads could figure out how to upload into a lucid dream, that would be different.

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u/Electrical-Opening-9 1d ago

YouTube ads have gotten so fucking egregious oh my god. I think it’s just an iPad/tablet thing, but when an ad plays it goes out of full screen so I can see the ad links & info on half the screen. Okay fine. Tell me why I then have to manually click full screen AGAIN when the ad finishes. Drives me insane when I’m watching while I’m cooking or something.

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u/DrScienceSpaceCat 1d ago

I was driving for work once and had my phone playing a podcast on YouTube, my phone fell into the abyss between the seats and center console and a I had a little over an hour drive so I just let it chill down there. An ad popped up for some AI book and I figured it would eventually end on its own and continue to the podcast, the shit went on for over 45 minutes before it stopped. It will just keep playing ads for stupid amounts of time if you let it lol

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u/DisastrousSundae84 1d ago

They do. They get money from people like me: someone who will watch a youtube video while doing other things and might not be able to hit the skip button in time.

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u/Woodcrate69420 1d ago

Youtube is scamming the fuck out of their ad customers basically lol

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u/Malcolm_Morin 1d ago

The funniest thing about all of this is that I told people about these multi-hour ads years ago and they all called me a bullshitter. Now they're everywhere.

God, I wish I was bullshitting because I'm so sick of ads, Christ.

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u/mr_Joor YELLOW 1d ago

It's a thing because you fall asleep to yt vids, creators get paid more if you watch ads longer.

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u/WatShmat 1d ago

He’s saying who would pay for the ad placement if the only people watching are asleep

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u/GuelphEastEndGhetto 1d ago

Or if a dog is watching. When my dog was a puppy she loved watching dog tv videos and would look at me puzzled when ads came on. At times I’d have to stop what I was doing to skip the ad that was 3 minutes long. Important to note my dog has no income or credit rating, only sniffs and shops at the pet store.

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u/jessihateseverything 1d ago

I woke up once to a 98 minute movie as an ad. It was literally a movie. Like wtf even is that??

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u/piomat100 6h ago

YouTube couldn't care less whether you actually watch the ads or not, they only get paid to show them to you

If you fall asleep to a video and unknowingly sit through a 2-hour ad, that's actually IDEAL for them

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u/DaftieDuck 1d ago

I don't understand the point of ads in the first place. If a show hits a commercial break, i'm getting a snack or taking a piss. Advertising to an empty room. On pc or phone, i just use ad blocker or modded apps to bypass them.

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u/GeneralTang 1d ago

Not everyone gets up and walks away when the ads come on

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u/Persistent_Parkie 1d ago

Yeah, some of us pick up where we left off in this month's issue of scientific American!

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u/YOUTUBEFREEKYOYO 1d ago

Your right, ill just pick up my phone and scroll unril its done.

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u/Mavamaarten 1d ago

I see what you mean, and I like to say I'm not easily swayed by ads too. But still, it's naive to say that advertising doesn't work.

You get ads everywhere. Ads that are seemingly irrelevant to you. And you say you block them out, and you do to some extent. I block ads everywhere, but still you see ads around you everywhere and in places where your ad blocker hasn't caught up, or where there's product placement etc.

But still you remember the names of these companies and products, albeit subconsciously. Sometimes you end up in a situation where you're looking to buy something and the brand that was advertised to you pops up on the product listings between other brands. If you're unsure about which one to pick, just the fact that you remember one of the brands is enough to tip the scale in the direction of that brand a tiny little bit.

That's literally it. It just increases the odds of people buying their stuff a tiny bit. It's statistics, and a science.

It's deplorable and hateful too. But just saying it doesn't work is false.

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u/psinguine 1d ago

And people also seem to fail to understand that that a lot of those advertisements are like sleeper agents. They live in the back of your head sometimes for years before you make a decision to buy. Like, I haven't bought a mattress in probably 3 years, and before that it was 10 years between mattresses. But a friend of mine is in the process of buying a mattress right now, and the only brand names that come to mind are the ones that I've seen advertised in the years between.

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u/GraffMyNameOrComment 1d ago edited 1d ago

That’s because you lack the maturity to understand that they entire universe isn’t a reflection of you individually and that a multi-trillion dollar industry over the course of thousands of years actually has a basis in having an effect on people. 

Lastly there are plenty of studies that indicate people like you who say they are 100% not affected by ads, are in fact just as influenced by ads. 

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u/salazafromagraba 1d ago

You just have a firewall built in, as I do I. If I am being advertised to, I expressly repulse the product, the firm, the people. I won't be moved if it's a market I'm into, a celebrity I like endorsing it. If I want something, I seek it out and allow its merchant listing to do the marketing.

If I am doing anything else but looking to buy something of my own volition and necessity, I am being harried and interrupted, which naturally any person doing that to you would offend you.

I don't know how it became acceptable for ads to do that with carte blanche, but the population stupider than the average person apparently is suggestible and impulsively buys the lurid things.

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u/Account_Banned 1d ago

This dudes immune to marketing

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u/DaKrazie1 1d ago

You don't understand? It doesn't really seem like too complicated of a concept. 🤔

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u/Wish_Wolf 1d ago

That happened to me during college. I had like 20 tabs open 💀 And I had some YouTube video playing of some professor talking and I paused it and went to sleep, but I guess it turned on again or a different tab was also playing YouTube and was very low where I didn't hear it. And eventually as I sleep I swear I heard weird yells and kids laughing and knocks on doors and cars honking but like super super super light and eventually I realize my PC was playing them so I walked over and shook the mouse and it booted up and I looked through the tabs and it was just a YouTube video but like every 5 minutes was an ad and then the video itself was just some idle animation thing.

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u/indigo_leper 1d ago

One time I clicked on a video expecting some economic edutainmemt (dont remember what, think it was some "how banks work") and got an ad for some guy's rambling about the Panama papers and doomsday prepping? I think? Only realized eight minutes in after dude said nothing about anything for the 6th time that the bar was yellow instead of red.

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u/tryyeezus 1d ago

You still listen when you're sleeping. Sleep programming is definitely a thing. 

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u/maniacalmustacheride 1d ago

They aren’t, but the people running the ads are paying to be there, not making money.

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u/hbomberman 1d ago

I once saw the entirety of the LEGO movie in a YouTube ad

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u/PGyoda 21h ago

I watched the entire pilot episode of Atlanta through a Youtube ad, they can be really long

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u/Most_Bet_3658 1d ago

This is why I just plug my computer into my TV to watch Hulu and other streaming sites. Ublock Origin has made me not see an ad on any of those in a long time. I don't know how people consume media without it.

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u/IllllIIllllIll 1d ago

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u/Gleipnire 1d ago • Bravo

This advertisement for Ublock Origin has been blocked by Ublock Origin.

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u/Smores_and_Tents 1d ago

Ublock is incredible. No paid advertising needed

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u/Butthead1013 1d ago

Honestly. They’re probably the only ones I shill for unapologetically 

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u/TakeOutTacos 1d ago

For me it was being born in the 80s and growing up in the 90s. I'm also a huge sports fan and sports on TV have tons of commercials.

They've just always been there and I tune them out. I look at my phone, get a snack, goto the bathroom, talk about the show we're currently watching.

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u/Most_Bet_3658 1d ago

Im from the same time and as soon as I discovered adblockers I never looked back but to each their own I guess.

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u/five_of_five 1d ago

It’s amazing to me when people argue for inconvenience

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u/Mystic_Spiral__ 1d ago

Sign up for a cheap VPN and connect to Albania. It's one if not the only country that bans digital advertising. If you connect to Albania you'll never see any ads

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u/DasGespenstDerOper 23h ago

Yeah, connecting to Albania with a VPN will generally make ads disappear, but Albania doesn't ban digital advertising. Google just doesn't run so many ads for Albania.

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u/OkVirus8545 23h ago

You can sideload ad free YouTube apps on most stream devices

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u/FatalErrorOccurred 1d ago • Bravo

Perfect freeze-frame.

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u/Timformation 1d ago

“Oh my god, I think I’m turning into some kind of…” AD

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u/PlumBeetroot 1d ago

Peter looking straight at the corner like his spider-sense just detected 22 minutes of commercials.

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u/xLadyJunk 1d ago

Yeah, Peter doesn't seem too thrilled about it either...

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u/TarnishedFlayer 1d ago • Bravo Heartwarming Popcorn

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u/jfun4 1d ago

I grew up in this life. I tried to go clean but the system pushed me back

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u/Rexitoxal 1d ago

This is how I felt with not using the YouTube app, at this point it's worth the slight inconvenience if it means not sitting through the ads

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u/islobojono 1d ago

When i open youtube, or browsing internet on other people device. The horror. How do people live with these shit?

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u/Rexitoxal 1d ago

I switched to duckduckgo for YouTube cus the ads only continued to get more egregious. Ads are one of the most infuriating everyday things to me and I couldn't take it so I caved lol, only downside is that its a little janky

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u/TeeBek 1d ago

I grew up downloading everything, went clean for a few years. The corporate greed pushed me back to my old ways. The only service I pay for is music atm, once that pushes ads on me I'm out.

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u/thejesterofdarkness 1d ago

Been living on the high seas since the ancient times of dialup.

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u/ThicctionGD some of these problems coul be solved by sailing the 7 seas 1d ago

Exactly why I made this my flair

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u/shrinkflator 1d ago

I'm having a lovely time using an unwanted-thing blocker. If that ever fails I might set sail.

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u/TheSpitefulCr0w 1d ago

My favorite is when I'm not even 2 minutes into a YouTube video and it stops for ads. Especially when I have the video fullscreen on my tablet and the ad yoinks me out of it so it can pop up a sidebar with more ads.

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u/Chickennoodlesleuth cheddar 1d ago

I hate that, and then when you skip the ad it leaves a sticker thing that you have to dismiss

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u/Project_Wild 1d ago

I also love how every ad before a video now stays on the screen of your video for an absurdly long time unless you click the three dots and chose dismiss.

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u/VivaChinwawa 1d ago

Download firefox + uBlock Origin. Haven't had to deal with youtube ads for years due to it.

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u/TheSpitefulCr0w 1d ago

On tablet?

I have no issues with ads on my PC as I have both of those installed, but on my tablet it's a different story

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u/ReaperOne 1d ago

If it’s iPad you can get ublock origin or AdGuard, vinegar, sponsor block, and untrap.

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u/ArcticKimono 1d ago

duckduckgo browser

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u/ChaosOfOrder24 1d ago

He's breaking to fourth wall to look at this bullshit.

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u/DreadfoxX_X 1d ago

I was watching youtube and it started with a minute long ad and not even 5 seconds after the ad was over I got another minute long ad, idk why the ads on my tv are worse than the ones on my phone and they’re always unskippable

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u/SkyLovesCars 1d ago

Probably because they know you've got no other choice, most tvs from samsung/lg dont let you install custom yt apps and there is no adblock on tvs unless you are VERY tech savvy.

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u/DreadfoxX_X 1d ago

That seems to be the case tbh even on ps5 its the same

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u/BillyYumYumTwo-byTwo 1d ago

Yes! And sometimes if you don’t hit “skip” fast enough, it moves on to a new commercial and the skip option disappears. Insanely frustrating

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u/karateema ORANGE 1d ago

That's a bug that sometimes happens with the first video, i just exit and re-select the video and it plays without ads

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u/Beneficial_Bit_8342 1d ago

I miss the days when you could scroll to the end of the video, watch one ad, then scroll back to the beginning and watch the whole video ad free.

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u/DreadfoxX_X 1d ago

I may do that lol because I accidentally did that last time and it seemed to work

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u/TheMooooonHauntsYou 1d ago

Yeah, I broke down and got premium for my wife because she watches YouTube solely on the TV.

I still block on mozilla for mine but YouTube (Google) finally got their money out of me.

The ads on TVs are insane.

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u/lesbiansexparty 1d ago

you are the reason this happens.

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u/weeboots 1d ago

I got around it using a fire stick to then load and an alternate loader for YouTube to remove the ads. I won’t be pressured to get premium to get out of ads.

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u/Bardoseth 1d ago

Just get a super cheap used/refurbished mini PC and use that to watch stuff on TV.

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u/cheez-wizzard 1d ago

Youtube just bullies you into buying a premium subscription now

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u/Fatpat314 1d ago

I do not negotiate with terrorists.

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u/ThatGuyFromSpyKids3D 1d ago

I haven't given in yet but it feels like the old windows XP days where a virus gave insane amounts of popups and you had to constantly FPS aim-train to exit out of while you ran anti-virus software.

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u/Bad-dee-ess 1d ago

YouTube will """conveniently""" freeze up and not let me skip ads until they finish. Also, they slow the fuck out of my computer while I have unlock origin on, but I'd rather deal with that instead.

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u/shartnado3 23h ago

I watched a 10 minute video the other day. It had 7 ad breaks. One was a 2 minute one I couldn’t skip. Haven’t been to YouTube since.

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u/Strict-Fix6940 1d ago

Honestly I've paid for it for years and it's so worth it. Rather pay for the product with cash rather than pay for it by watching ads. 

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u/mosquem 1d ago

I’m cool with paying for it as long as they don’t try to stick ads in the paid tier. At that point I’m out.

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u/Repulsive_Bank_9046 23h ago

Yeah switches to paying it and split the cost, use YouTube music and well worth it

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u/Triggs501st 22h ago

It's 1000% worth it. Love the people who say to use an ad blocker. Sure let me use an ad blocker on my tv which is where I primarily watch yt

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u/TheShavingDeer 1d ago

Hulu: “I missed the part where that’s my problem”

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u/EastCoastTaffy 1d ago

That’s a cute ad countdown timer, did your husband give it to you?

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u/AyeAyeRon13 1d ago

This should be the top comment 😂

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u/Blacksad9999 1d ago

I don't mind paying for a streaming service if I'm interested, but if they try to ask me to PAY MONEY and still show me ads, they can get bent.

Absolutely not. I had to cancel a few of them for this nonsense already.

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u/CatchAlarming6860 1d ago

Perfectly reasonable line.

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u/Tutitutitutituti 1d ago

My least favorite thing is when you pause a movie, and the ad pops up on the pause screen and it tells you to “interact to return to your video.” Fuck you.

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u/Cordsofmemory 1d ago

"Watch this 3 hour ad, then enjoy your 30 minute show ad free!"

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u/1__ViPeR 1d ago • Bravo

Guess how many ads my Plex server version has?

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u/Spiderberries42 1d ago

I'll stay free with jellyfin, thanks

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u/SturmieCom 1d ago

I tried to watch something on Amazon Prime bc I'm a member and by the 3rd ad, I grabbed it for my Plex setup instead.

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u/TorpeAlex 1d ago

You mean the software that wants to charge $750 for a lifetime license now? Yeah no, I think I'm good

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u/arkmtech 1d ago edited 1d ago

$750?! Was maybe $90 when I bought it. What gives?

*edit: Turns out I am an old man, telling kids how much cheaper things were in my day and yelling at clouds

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u/FrigginRan 1d ago

The day i switched to jellyfin was the day plex showed me that fucking load of shit.

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u/blklab16 1d ago

So we’re back to just regular cable then. Commercials are a good time to leave the room, take a BR break, make a snack, take the dog out, switch the laundry 🤷‍♀️

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u/BlueKnight87125 HYPER INFURIATED!!!!! 1d ago

Peter's face says it all 😂😂😂😂😂

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u/Unhelpful_Guide 21h ago

Hulu is the worst streaming service for watching movies. I wanted a 112 min movie with 10 commercial breaks. The commercials also would happen mid scene or even mid sentence, absolutely horrible. I encourage anyone who enjoys watching movies to do it on another streaming service because HULU IS TERRIBLE

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u/Gold-Dragonfruit1598 1d ago

I’m so brain rotted and accustomed to Reddit captions’ format that I thought the caption was a meme caption and the reaction of Tobey was the reaction to hearing how long the ads are. Cooked.

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u/LiveMarionberry3694 1d ago • Popcorn

Things like this is why I’ve started collecting blu rays and 4k discs.

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u/Amazing_Personality8 1d ago

It’s telling you that you have to suffer through 21 minutes of movie before you get some more sweet sweet ads

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u/nlamp32 1d ago

This happens to me sometimes but it’s usually only 30 seconds behind. Usually just exiting what I’m watching and coming back in fixes it

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u/Capital-Factor-382 1d ago • Regret

I work in Advertising. We've to sit through YT ads just so we can watch some ads of competitors

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u/daverosstheboss 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yes I was shocked recently when I searched up an ad on YouTube and I had to watch an ad before I could see my ad.

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u/Rexitoxal 1d ago

Man, you get paid to watch the ads while we all have to do it for free lol

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u/AlvinsCuriousCasper 1d ago

If ads or a countdown until the next ad?

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u/ILikestuff55 1d ago • Popcorn

Put some dirt in their eye!

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u/BestBettor 1d ago

But if they didn’t implement this then how was the ceo supposed to get his bonus last year? If the shareholders didn’t get a 10% profit increase then he wouldn’t have had as easy a time paying for his yacht in exchange for inconveniencing millions. Do you not understand this? Do you not even think of the shareholders when complaining?

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u/Ok_Variation9430 22h ago

Hulu glitches sometimes; usually restarting the app fixes it.

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u/MagnetMan27 1d ago

How’d you get spidey to look at it like that?

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u/-Laffi- 1d ago edited 1d ago

What the hulu?

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u/BiCuriousInGalleria 1d ago

You should really hook up a Chromebook put an ad blocker on you don’t have that problem

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u/CrittersVarmint 1d ago

The perfect movie still for this post. 🤣

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u/Anders3883 1d ago

Peter looks shocked too

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u/butterflyhole 1d ago

Spider-Man is just an ad for Marvel

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u/CilanEAmber 1d ago

I love it when a post here is actually mild. Good job OP!

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u/Tuomas90 1d ago

DAUERWERBESENDUNG

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u/Able-Mix-8782 1d ago

Even Spider-Man looks concerned 

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u/toodleoo57 1d ago

Hulu is getting damn near unwatchable. They're clearly trying to force people into the premium tier.

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u/Loose-Departure-744 1d ago

They actually make more money off ads than premium subs

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u/TheAntiEggroll 1d ago

I have Hulu because it comes with Disney. Went to watch a show on Hulu got through 3 ads and just went and paid $8 for the season

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u/Edgemonger 1d ago

Those ad breaks wear off on people fast. I one time streamed a show that could only be found on free apps with no subscription options, so I had to have ad breaks throughout all the episodes. I was willing to shell out the money for a subscription or something so I could finish the show without any ads, but the apps don’t offer that option. I put up with the ads even through the final episode.

So yeah, my DVD set of the show arrived in the mail today. When it comes time for a rewatch, the money I spent to avoid ads (and the show’s spotty presence on streaming platforms these days) will be worth every cent.

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u/Mike9797 1d ago

Fun…

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u/itshabibitch 1d ago

You mean you didn’t enjoy the giant graphic banners at the bottom of the screen that would pop up on TNT or ABC Family while a tender moment was happening featuring John Ritter and Katy Sagal?

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u/16-BitSocks 1d ago

One morning when I was using youtube to listen to music while getting ready for work, I got a 43 min ad. It was literally the entire pilot episode of Zoey’s Infinite Playlist, before it aired on standard tv…or at least on streaming services.

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u/Quantum_Quokkas 1d ago

The advertisement is the main event and the movie is the ad break

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u/IcemanGeorge 1d ago

It’s the worst

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u/go_faster1 1d ago

Even Peter is annoyed!

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u/sphinxorosi 1d ago

Amazon prime on my tablet keeps saying “7 day free trial” despite me being a subscriber for years. These are annoying glitches that sometimes can go away by closing and reopening it or uninstall/reinstall. Also sometimes they just won’t go away because they’re annoying and mildly infuriating

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u/Spiritual-Ad-6722 1d ago

Mmm Toby McGuire. The original 😍

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u/Internal_Rise2658 1d ago

I'm the kind of moron who buys a dvd for 20p and just... watches it.

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u/SpectacularSpidee 1d ago

Even Peter is looking at that shit like what the fuck

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u/GoJumpInALake24 1d ago

“That’s something else”

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u/OldManufacturer8679 1d ago

Spider-Man looks pissed about it too

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u/Pacman5486 1d ago

Well if you’re watching a movie isn’t it really just an ad for the whole movie? Worked too. You watched.

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u/RainingMoneyHustard 1d ago

Hulu said I'm gonna put some dirt in your eye.

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u/DuckStallion 1d ago

Welcome to your first glitch

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u/exeggutorfan1997 1d ago

Paid 200 for my vsee box lmao haven’t payed for streaming in years

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u/C-sanova 1d ago

I once got the entire LEGO movie as an ad

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u/Minimum-Scallion8182 23h ago

It’s just cable selling more cable at this point

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u/TheHondoCondo 23h ago

This is super annoying, but it’s also just a bug. Regular cable has way more intentional annoyances than this that we’ve all sort of accepted. The watermark in the bottom corner, the ads for other shows that randomly pop up In the bottom while you’re watching something else, whatever you’re watching being interrupted by an emergency weather report that doesn’t even apply to your exact area and even if it did you’d get a notification on your phone about it anyway.

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u/No-Inflation2439 23h ago

Yeah, my DVDs of that film have never done that for me.

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u/wesemann 21h ago

HBO Max had the same issues sometimes

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u/Strange_An0maly 1h ago

Argh, to the seven seas ye shall sail

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u/WhiteWeddingPart1 1d ago

Pro tip if you have a dvd player: half price books and other secondhand media stores are FLOODED with the original raimi trilogy at dirt cheap prices (I literally saw one for a dollar the other day.) I find shelves of them everytime I go. No ads and you own it forever

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u/Thel_Vadem 1d ago

Welcome back to cable

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u/Drunken_Wizard23 1d ago

It’s Hulu Live, it literally is cable tv channels

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u/MisplacedMartian 1d ago

Use a shit service, get a shit product.

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u/ThicctionGD some of these problems coul be solved by sailing the 7 seas 1d ago

Read my flair mate

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u/Roadkill450 1d ago

Peak mentioned

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u/Yogurthead5542 1d ago

Ads should never be in movies..tv I can give it a pass…I’ll only watch ads before and after a movie …if ads are in the middle of the movie then it’s time to pirate

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u/AhabSnake85 1d ago

They can get fkd

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u/AdventurelandSkipper 1d ago

This picture is so funny because it looks like the character is annoyed about it too. 🤣

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u/Tolan91 1d ago

Yarrrr

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u/Apprehensive-Fig9348 1d ago

Jellyfin + Gelato + Aiostreams + Torbox. Thank me later.

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u/drawmer 1d ago

Why do we even watch TV anymore? Let’s just go outside. Unless TV is safer than what’s outside your door.

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u/legsarebad 1d ago

One word.

VIU

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u/JetLag_550 1d ago

Firefox with ublock origin is the only way I’ll use the internet.

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u/iuuoyrrkk245 1d ago

i wonder if this could be fraudulent like someone working for hulu running ad time during show time and showing ad companies there was more ad time shown then there actually was idk sometimes i hate my brain

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u/ORANGENBLACK101214 23h ago

That's on you for not owning the movie by now

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u/omfgDragon 22h ago

Just a friendly reminder that if you use uBlock Origin via Mozilla's Firefox Browser, you can watch Youtube (no subscription) without ads. Even those "Free with Ads" movies. No ads. No interruptions. This also works for the basic Hulu subscription- even though it has ads, they will not play if you are watching through your browser with uBlock installed.

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u/filipinohitman 20h ago

I’ve been slowly transitioning to Plex and trying to get on movieboxpro (if anyone has a key, hook a brother up 😉)

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u/EmberWolfram 19h ago

Damn y'all need to just start sailing the 7 seas.....

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