{"id":865258,"date":"2024-10-11T08:48:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T03:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=865258"},"modified":"2024-10-11T08:54:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T03:24:51","slug":"youtube-test-hides-skip-button-on-ads-says-its-part-of-a-ui-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/10\/11\/youtube-test-hides-skip-button-on-ads-says-its-part-of-a-ui-update\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube test hides skip button on ads, says its part of a UI update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube ad segments may be annoying for some, but most of these ads can be easily skipped after a few seconds. However, the Google-owned video-sharing platform now seems to be making it harder for users to skip ads, which account for a large portion of the company\u2019s revenue. <\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, several Reddit users said they were seeing a black or grey rectangle on top of the \u201cSkip\u201d button with the countdown timer missing when watching an advertisement on the desktop. Now, a report by AndroidAuthority suggests that the company is also hiding the skip button on the mobile app as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube ad segments may be annoying for some, but most of these ads can be easily skipped after a few seconds. However, the Google-owned video-sharing platform now seems to be making it harder for users to skip ads, which account for a large portion of the company\u2019s revenue. A few days ago, several Reddit users said they were seeing a black or grey rectangle on top of the \u201cSkip\u201d button with the countdown timer missing when watching an advertisement on the desktop. Now, a report by AndroidAuthority suggests that the company is also hiding the skip button on the mobile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-865258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}