YouTube hides timer and skip button

If you hate YouTube ads, now you will hate her even moreand the company started hide details in your mobile application. Until now, announcements have been accompanied by accountant which told you how long the ad would last. And now this counter was deleted. Thus, you will not be able to know whether the ad will last 20 seconds or 1 minute.

As if that weren’t enough, the company has also removed all traces of this characteristic. button that allowed you to skip ads. This is invisible but will appear as soon as the user I’ve seen enough advertising

. These new and annoying changes have the sole purpose of encouraging users to upgrade to YouTube Premium. Where not only is there no advertising, but also exclusive features and functions are added. Essentially, the longer an ad plays, to the point wherechange‘ to view it in full. This results in higher revenue for the company.

YouTube continues to make your user experience worse: either you accept ads or you have to pay for Premium.

Yes we know they exist ad blockers. But it’s common knowledge that YouTube poses even more obstacles for these users. Since I can’t advance through the video,
even unstable performance of your PC or mobile device to force you to stop blocking ads. Although web browsers or extensions are updated to avoid these problems. YouTube is becoming increasingly aggressive on this issue.

Now, whether you use an ad blocker or not, YouTube is up and running. hide countdown timer

when an ad plays for some mobile users. As noted, with this change YouTube aims to make users focus on the advertisement itself. Instead of watching a countdown to see when they can skip the ad. That’s why this entire interface is invisible. The Skip Ads button will appear after the invisible timer reaches a certain time.

The change was apparently made to encourage viewers to focus on the advertisement itself and not at the moment when they might miss it. So, instead of blocking the jump button behind a visible timer, the button suddenly appears when users see a specific part of the ad.

Despite this, users can still calculate when they can skip YouTube ads via yellow search bar which is at the bottom of the video. This subtly delivers the information you need without distracting users from the sponsored content.

For now, this will be a trial before widespread implementation.

As is often the case with all these changes on YouTube, these changes in advertising limited test. Google has not officially announced this change. But affected users have started reporting this change. A change which, if successful, will be expanded over the next few weeks to the extent that be implemented worldwide.

Now YouTube will always try to push users towards YouTube Premium. And here comes a serious problem: its price. Yes, 11.99 euros per month is already a high price (or 17.99 euros for a family subscription). It must be remembered that this price will increase soon. Let’s move on to the cost of an individual subscription 17.99 euros per month compared to €25.99 per month for a family. We’re talking about how YouTube could cost as much as
subscription to various streaming services. Which is not logical.

Payment will also not free you from viewing advertisements.keeping in mind that content creators also reserve part of the video for advertising services or products.