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That's not up to YouTube, that's what the creator is doing.


The creators must specify the start and end timestamp of the ad (some do), so you would be allowed to skip it easily.


You can if you have Premium. If you start manually skipping forward, the UI gives you a ‘Jump ahead’ button that skips straight to the end of the segment (based on crowd-sourced data, it seems).


YouTube could stop it if they wanted.




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