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> Nothing quite like listening to quiet ambient or classical piano music and then all of a sudden some giant, roided-out asshole is screaming at me: "LET ME HEL
by giantrobot 3y ago
> Nothing quite like listening to quiet ambient or classical piano music and then all of a sudden some giant, roided-out asshole is screaming at me: "LET ME HELP YOU GET RRRRRRRIPPED AT THE GYMMM!!!"
To expand on this I find ads are even on random videos. So you might get one video with no ads followed by a video that has mid-roll ads. There's no rhyme or reason to it. There's no clear expectation set that a video is going to have ads or not, let alone their super obnoxious ads. Ads on YouTube are a total shit show.
There's no aspect of YouTube that makes me think "damn I should watch more YouTube" and certainly nothing that makes me think I should pay for it. It seems everything YouTube does is try to drive me away by being frustrating. Maybe they are because I've fallen into some A/B test group that makes the YouTube experience too obnoxious to use.
- ryandrake 3y ago> It seems everything YouTube does is try to drive me away by being frustrating. Interesting choice of words, as one of their execs specifically pointed out[1] that a goal was to "frustrate" users with ads: > "You're not going to be happy after you are jamming Stairway To Heaven and you get an ad right after that," Mr Cohen said in an interview. 1: https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-43496603 https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-43496603