YouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads!

Hey YouTube? The endpoint of enshittification is this: I wipe my ass and flush you. Keep going, YouTube. You’re not so important that we can’t just leave. Nebula exists. Curiosity Stream exists. PeerTube exists. Odysee exits. The people I value on YT already have footholds on all four. More will arrive soon enough. So keep at it. Keep injecting unskippable ads, flooding the feed with AI slop, letting bots post porn, demonetising and hiding quality content, using DMCA like a digital SLAPP against content creators, and using the algorithm to warp reality. Your value proposition is ubiquity. That’s it. That’s all you have. Without popular buy-in, you’re dead. We proles? We have something better than loyalty. We have spite. So keep pissing people off - because watching you die on a very stupid hill of your own design will be entertaining AF. For everyone else, see you on !selfhosted@lemmy.world and !privacy@lemmy.world. Come and learn how you can replace all of these pieces of shit. And in the meantime - yt-dlp should still work to download what you actually want to keep, and SmartTube is black magic incarnate.