Since you’re already in the Fediverse, I’d suggest looking into PeerTube for your videos rather than going to YouTube as your primary platform.

I currently have a channel, but am going to switch to PeerTube when I have my backlog built up again so I can post in a steady schedule. (Workin’ on it…) The only things I’m going to put on YouTube are videos going, ‘Hey! I have the video up here! Follow the link!’ so that people can actually find it and Words of the Week shorts 'cuz I don’t want to feed their AI bullshit that I can’t get away from with proper stuff and it’s just stick figures and rudimentary drawings with words from the dictionary. Unfortunately, it’s not as user friendly to search for stuff on PeerTube as it is on YouTube. I’m hoping that gets fixed sooner rather than later. It’ll make things better. sigh

Yeah. Lately in 20min chunks I’ve been getting about 4 ad breaks, so if it’s an hour+ in length…

And some of those ‘ads’ are 3min, 5min…one was almost 2hrs! Yes, there’s the skip button, but if it’s that long then it’s not an ad and it has no place in an ad break.

Thankfully, this is a fully opt-in experience.

And how long before they decide to make a default instead of opt-in?