
TL;DR
- Users report seeing unusually long ads that can’t be skipped when watching YouTube videos through the service’s TV app.
- YouTube says that these longer ads are not intentional and that it’s “looking into” what’s happening.
YouTube is funded primarily by advertising, so Google’s incentivized to strike a balance between the ad strategy that generates the most profit possible and one that users won’t find too obtrusive. Reports this week that users had been seeing non-skippable,…

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