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TL;DR YouTube users report videos jumping ahead tens of seconds after they finish watching ads.
The exact length of the skipped time varies, but appears to generally be under a minute.
This follows several other YouTube ad glitches in recent months.
Even with its recent price hikes, YouTube Premium is still one of the best values in streaming around — but Google’s just never going to convert everybody into a paying customer. The rest of us have to sit through the occasional ad, and in theory, that shouldn’t be a big deal. But YouTube ads also have a bad reputation for some bizarre, glitchy behavior, and now a new one is teleporting viewers into the middle of clips.
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Ads on YouTube aren’t supposed to be particularly onerous, and most of the time we can just click through to our content after watching a short clip. And while sometimes we do have to endure a longer one, thankfully the unskippable 90-second ads some users reported turned out to be a glitch.
Our latest incident, however, concerns what happens after you skip those ads. Once you’re done with your pre-roll ads, either by skipping or watching to their conclusion, YouTube is supposed to take you right to the beginning of your content. But rather than doing that, some users are being bumped forward into the video already in progress, reports PiunikaWeb.
Are YouTube videos jumping ahead after viewing pre-roll ads? 5 votes Yeah. I'm getting exactly the problem described here. 60 % Once in a while, but not consistently. 0 % No. I'm not seeing anything like this 40 %
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