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Youtube has become stupidly aggressive with its video ads in my region. To the point I actually try to avoid using it. I will also consciously avoid all compan
by eveningcoffee 11y ago
Youtube has become stupidly aggressive with its video ads in my region. To the point I actually try to avoid using it.
I will also consciously avoid all companies who think that it is acceptable to interrupt randomly people with their messages.
I am fine with overlay ads and I would have been positively influenced with the same ads in overlay form that now are forced on me as video ads.
Sorry, but this is a short term strategy.
- ekimekim 11y agoYoutube is one of very, very few sites I run adblock on for this reason. I'm fine with ads, as long as they aren't actively blocking content.
- eveningcoffee 11y agoI would say that they are not blocking content but they are interrupting my flow. People abandoned TV for a reason and Google wants to force this intolerable nuisance back into our lives.
- rodgerd 11y ago> Youtube has become stupidly aggressive with its video ads in my region. The video ads are part of the problem, the sidebar ads can be pretty rank, too. Hi, YouTube, have you considered that maybe when I want to watch an opera clip or a "how things work" video with my 8 year old I don't want gorey traffic ads, booze ads, or "buy a Russian bride" sidebars?
- __xtrimsky 11y agoSame here, I have kids, and used to show them legal content on Youtube. Now I download everything because YouTube was showing horror movie ads between episodes.