YouTube says it is ‘not hiding the skip button’ on ads
by Jay Peters from The Verge - All Posts on (#6RBN3)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Some YouTube users have observed the platform making it harder to skip ads in recent days. On Reddit, a user reported seeing black rectangles over the skip button on desktop instead of the expected countdown timer, and a few days later, Android Police reported not seeing a countdown to skip on mobile.
But in statements to The Verge, YouTube says it isn't removing the skip button - it's just changing some elements of how ads are displayed.
YouTube is not hiding the skip button," YouTube spokesperson Oluwa Falodun says in a statement to The Verge. On skippable ads, the button appears after 5 seconds into playback, as always."
As for the changes, Falodun says that YouTube is reducing elements on the ads player" so that viewers can...