Imagine being able to watch YouTube without long ad breaks. A new extension for Chrome, called “Ad Speedup“, is changing the game, offering an innovative way to deal with annoying ads. This solution does not block YouTube ads, but plays them at incredibly high speed, significantly reducing their impact on your viewing experience.
Goodbye interruptions: How “Ad Speedup” is changing YouTube advertising
The increase in YouTube advertising has led to growing frustration among users. Google's response to this issue included severe action against ad blockers, prompting many to look for alternatives. “Ad Speedup” is proposed as an innovative solution: instead of eliminating advertisements, the extension accelerates their playback up to 16 times. This significantly reduces the length of ads, turning a 30-second ad into just two seconds.
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"Ad Speedup" takes advantage of your browser's playback speed controls to speed up ads as soon as they are detected, a simple but effective approach. This methodology is less invasive than traditional ad blockers and has a less impact on content creators' earnings on Youtube. While not a definitive solution like YouTube Premium, this extension represents a balanced compromise between uninterrupted viewing and support for creators.
Of course, YouTube Premium is the best solution for everyone: users who can enjoy ad-free videos on YouTube and creators who get paid the right thanks to the subscriptions of the latter. However, it is also true that sometimes these ads are extremely intrusive.
For now, how reported da 9to5Google, we do not know what this means for content creators this solution that speeds up YouTube ads. Logically, it shouldn't impact earnings because, for all intents and purposes, users watch the ads.
