Or you could snap and say: “meh” and stop watching it. Just another option. I watched in 2020 to find out how to repair my dishwasher. Then I loaded it up about a year ago to confirm someone else’s post that the channel makes a loud sound when starting up. That’s pretty much it for me these days. Watching two or three ads at the start just to watch the first minute of a video only to find that he’s not doing the kind of repair I thought, and then having to sit through to more to find out the next one doesn’t apply either, just got to be too much.
Well, I purchased Roku to watch the streaming content I like to watch; YouTube is one of them, so I would like to use it for that but if viewing YouTube on a Roku is going to come with increased ads, I will use another device BUT here is the issue with that. I have an app on my Sony TV that streams YouTube but eventually, the audio starts skipping for some reason. It's probably a bug in the app and since this has been happening for MANY months w/o any resolution, I suspect YouTube(Google) cares little about fixing it. You might have heard of their 80/20 rule so I suspect they took that attitude with this app.
The other option is to Chromecast from my phone BUT this, too, is buggy and requires me to wake my phone every time I need to select a new show.
There is one final option. In the future, I will not purchase Roku products but instead, purchase Google products which, I suspect, doesn't have is issue. Of course, that does mean at least one less user of their hardware and that's kinda the opposite of what a company wants.
Maybe Roku made some sort of deal with Google and in exchange for extra ads, they get a cut of the revenue. It's possible they see this agreement as more profitable than the number of people abandoning their hardware due to this issue. Maybe some Roku insider can spill the beans. 😉
