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Posted on: 4/12/2024

You What Youtube

What in the what is Youtube doing

Today I opened up my GOG app and clicked to watch a gameplay video for one of my library's game.

I'm left horrified with what I was presented:

Screenshot of a Youtube embed on GOG app.  Contains many ads and each denoted on the video progress bar with a yellow sticker.

Does Youtube expect me to watch about 55 ads on top of the video itself?

55 ads for a single video. A 3 hour video, but still!

The same video on Youtube domain does NOT show these ad markers. But don't be fooled by this, as the video does still contain ads and will happily serve and show them to you.

Screenshot to contrast with the previous Screenshot image, where the same video on the Youtube domain does not show the ad markers on the progress bar.

The aforementioned Youtube video is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p1Dna5yhwQ

Embeddeding the video on a HTML page using the Youtube provided iframe snippet does NOT show ad markers for me.

Could be a hidden setting of theirs or GOG doing voodoo magic ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.