[chrisnight]

I’m not sure if the amount of ads is different, but the quality of ads is definitely different. The ads on TV are “skippable” in the sense that you watch 2 minutes of ads, and then in the last 10 seconds, you can skip to the end.

Any time I use my TV for YouTube now, I just connect my laptop to the TV so I don’t have to deal with those insane ads.

It’s extremely clear that YouTube is trying to maximize ad watch time, while keeping the acknowledgment by the user that they watched the ad, by acknowledging they’re paying attention enough to press “Skip”