Anyone else having problems with YouTube these days?

Having exactly the same problem described in the OP. Hopefully it'll get fixed soon.

 

I never knew he was a doctor. Are you sure? From what he's shown of his home it looks quite a dump apart from the kitchen.

 

He has a Dr. degree, nothing 'medical' afaik.

 

The problem Is that sometimes you will use youtube to search something specific or some information and you want to quickly browse through many videos. If you get a forced ad every third video then it becomes not merely annoying but a complete hindrance.

Back when ads were very occasional I would do same as you, go check my email or refresh some forum posts. But now its just too much for me. I quit and installed ad block.

This being said, I have a video that hits 40-50k views a year. I wonder how much I would make with an ad on this one

 

Yeah, he's a doctor of psychology, but it seems like I may have been wrong and Youtube videos are his job nowadays, at least judging from his AMA on Reddit.

 

Not much. Notice all the vloggers getting millions of views? theres a reason why they run merch stores, do appearences and make multiple videos daily.

 

Yeah I figured as much, yet I see plenty of videos with barely any views at all that have ads on them. I wonder, is it really worth it to annoy the little public you have for 2 bucks a year? Anyway... I installed ad block now. *shrugs*

 

Youtube for me will sometimes just finnish the video half way through, it will just suddenly come up with the suggested videos, I look at the tome bar and it says the video is only say 5mins when it's a 20min video :?

 

Exact same problem as OP, started a few days ago on BT AND VM, happens across windows, mac and linux, as linux flash player was abandoned last year I can rule out flash player being the problem. Using a mixture of ISP and Google DNS and the 20 second load time is always there. They've removed the buffering graph on youtube now for some reason too.

 

It's a matter of principle for me... I won't support anything that is advertised in invasive ways (i.e., inconveniencing me by forcing me to watch something, sneaking ads in the middle of articles so I'm confused when suddenly a sentence makes no sense to the topic at all, or creating an add so annoying that I don't even want to be on the site- i.e., those punch-the-whatever banner ads and such. Hell, ANY animated banner ad. If you have _annoy_ my eyeballs to your ad, you have a bigger problem with your product/marketing that you need to work on).

I read the description of every YouTube video I watch. Put a simple (non-invasive, non animated) text ad there. _That_ I'm likely to see, and may even click on it if I'm feeling nice (and it actually has something to do with the video)...

To this day, I have _NEVER_ clicked on a banner ad anywhere (computer, phone, etc..) On the rare occasion that something looks interesting, I will just open another tab and go to the site. I won't go to obfuscated web links (which are used, if the banner is legit, to track click-throughs. And used, if the banner has been hacked, to install viruses... If the link isn't a link to the actual site being advertised, I will not use it...)

But in the end, nothing that I ever see advertised is something I give a damn about (like the example of having to watch car ads when I have no intention of buying a car... And when I do, I'm going to read safety and performance reports about the vehicle, not watch a commercial about how pretty it is and how loud the stereo is...), so what difference does it make to the manufacturer of the product if I see their ad or not? And, as far as what advertising is meant to do, blocking it is just the same as turning down the volume and ignoring it... Either way, the message isn't getting through.

You want a good example of how to advertise a product? Watch the music video for Swedish House Mafia's Greyhound (sponsored by Absolut Vodka). You'd probably have to like the music to really appreciate it (which I do), and the video is just awesome (imo, of course...). And to this day I can still remember that it's also a sneaky ad for the Vodka (almost too bad for them that I don't drink... ). But the blatant product placement doesn't bother me because the video is just so damn awesome... And it's fairly subtle... You'd expect the spectators in the vid to be drinking... Sort of like seeing iPhones in movie, the characters need to use phones, so there's nothing odd about seeing a certain brand a lot. And I get that it's expensive to make something like that, so I'm okay with a little _non-invasive_ advertising. It shouldn't hinder my experience of watching it (or doing whatever)... It really is the main reason I don't watch broadcast TV anymore... I'd rather buy/rent the season on blu-ray when it's released than have to sit through all the commercials.

But just because your cost-you-nothing-to-make cell phone video went viral doesn't mean you have spam the entire thing with ads...

 

You didn't already have Adblock installed? :concern:
I wouldn't leave home without it. I saw some of my videos the other day. There are ads everywhere.
I should do a video on how to install Adblock, or would YouTube frown on that?
Wouldn't want to damage my upstanding YouTube citizenship!

 

Just by the way: The problem is gone since yesterday.

 

I have another strange problem sometimes. Take a video which has a duration time of f.e. 5minutes.
So while watching this video it suddenly finishes somewhere in the middle as it just reached its end.
Checking the vids duration time again, it suddenly changed to the time when it abrupt finished -> f.e. 2min. 34sec.

No clue what that shit could be???

 

had this a few times in the past but not recently im not sure what causes it.

 

UK user here using BT as my ISP on a standard DNS in the middle of nowhere, where saying Fibre Optic can get you burned at the stake by the village locals for spouting witchcraft curses. No issues at all really other than that annoying spinning HD gear thing where it struggles to hi-def the video while playing.