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These people plague me with condescending adverts on YouTube about how I've been "coding like a beast" and need some "cloud server action". Perhaps someone fin

These people plague me with condescending adverts on YouTube about how I've been "coding like a beast" and need some "cloud server action". Perhaps someone finally snapped and DDOS'd them.

mitchwainer 13y ago
You should only see the ad once on YouTube. We do apologize for this. Did you try clearing your cache?
- bencollier49 13y ago
  I did not! Do I have to watch it all the way to the bitter end to finally be rid of it? Because I have not done that. Nice potential-customer-service btw. Thanks! Although I did rather imagine you lot would be all over this thread :-)
  - mitchwainer 13y ago
    Let me know if you're still having problems.
    - lucasmo 13y ago
      I also see this ad repeatedly. It doesn't bother me at all, but I thought I should comment in case it helps making your campaign more effective. Just to show you how much it shows up: my WIFE already recognizes it, just from hearing it when I'm working by her side. I'm sure retargeting works in some context, but I'm guessing you are overdoing it in some cases. (I'm in Brazil, but I browse mostly in English. Maybe it makes me a particular case?).
      - jacquesm 13y ago
        Re-targeting short term increase in profits, long term increase in irritation and ad-blindness. Probably the #1 cause for people to install ad-blockers.
      - ljf 13y ago
        @jacquesm - totally agree - retargetting is the sole reason I installed Ad-Block.
    - bencollier49 13y ago
      Thanks. To add to the guy who said he was in Brazil, I'm in the UK, perhaps it's non-US people who are getting deluged.
d23 13y ago
> These people plague me with condescending adverts on YouTube about how I've been "coding like a beast" and need some "cloud server action". Oh please tell me more about how the people helping to support the largest video database in the history of mankind -- available 24/7 at your fingertips for free -- are "plaguing" you with their relevant advertisements that take all of 5 seconds to skip. If you really want to be a horse's ass, just get adblock and be done with it.
- pfraze 13y ago
  To be fair-- and sorry to DigitalOcean guys that are reading this, but this is honest feedback-- that ad really bugs me. It's got the "rockstar-itus." It's hard to pin down why that feels condescending, but it does. I hear really good things about the service, though, so kudos to DigitalOcean for that.
  - michaelbuckbee 13y ago
    I think the issue is that the ads "read" so unauthentically compared to the very positive experience I've had with DO and their wonderful setup tools, documentation, etc.
    - groundCode 13y ago
      while the ads are over the top, the core message of "configure how many of those, and how much of that etc" did kind of draw me in.
- andrewryno 13y ago
  I don't believe it's YouTube that he's complaining but rather the retargeting campaign by DigitalOcean themselves. I've had a few companies that retarget me on YouTube relentlessly. Ads themselves don't bother me, but seeing the same one dozens of times a day gets irritating.
- kidcoach 13y ago
  We can't critique bad youtube ads because youtube is good ? That seems logical.
diziet 13y ago
You can potentially install adblock and never see said ad (or any other ad) unless you need to disable adblock. It's a case of simple and effective retargetting.
- yatsyk 13y ago
  Adblock works for desktop browser. But I watch youtube on mobile or android media player in app mostly.
  - alive-or-not 13y ago
    There are ad-blockers for Android, they don't even require root on 4.x. There are also WiFi routers that filter all traffic.
  - rdl 13y ago
    Would you be willing to use a mitm proxy as part of a VPN service to accomplish that?
- bencollier49 13y ago
  I hate a lot of ads, but don't really think adblock is fair. If the ads in totality bug me enough, I might stop going to a site, upload elsewhere etc..

These people plague me with condescending adverts on YouTube about how I've been "coding like a beast" and need some "cloud server action". Perhaps someone finally snapped and DDOS'd them.

mitchwainer 13y ago

You should only see the ad once on YouTube. We do apologize for this. Did you try clearing your cache?

bencollier49 13y ago
I did not! Do I have to watch it all the way to the bitter end to finally be rid of it? Because I have not done that. Nice potential-customer-service btw. Thanks! Although I did rather imagine you lot would be all over this thread :-)
- mitchwainer 13y ago
  Let me know if you're still having problems.
  - lucasmo 13y ago
    I also see this ad repeatedly. It doesn't bother me at all, but I thought I should comment in case it helps making your campaign more effective. Just to show you how much it shows up: my WIFE already recognizes it, just from hearing it when I'm working by her side. I'm sure retargeting works in some context, but I'm guessing you are overdoing it in some cases. (I'm in Brazil, but I browse mostly in English. Maybe it makes me a particular case?).
    - jacquesm 13y ago
      Re-targeting short term increase in profits, long term increase in irritation and ad-blindness. Probably the #1 cause for people to install ad-blockers.
    - ljf 13y ago
      @jacquesm - totally agree - retargetting is the sole reason I installed Ad-Block.
  - bencollier49 13y ago
    Thanks. To add to the guy who said he was in Brazil, I'm in the UK, perhaps it's non-US people who are getting deluged.

d23 13y ago

> These people plague me with condescending adverts on YouTube about how I've been "coding like a beast" and need some "cloud server action". Oh please tell me more about how the people helping to support the largest video database in the history of mankind -- available 24/7 at your fingertips for free -- are "plaguing" you with their relevant advertisements that take all of 5 seconds to skip. If you really want to be a horse's ass, just get adblock and be done with it.

pfraze 13y ago
To be fair-- and sorry to DigitalOcean guys that are reading this, but this is honest feedback-- that ad really bugs me. It's got the "rockstar-itus." It's hard to pin down why that feels condescending, but it does. I hear really good things about the service, though, so kudos to DigitalOcean for that.
- michaelbuckbee 13y ago
  I think the issue is that the ads "read" so unauthentically compared to the very positive experience I've had with DO and their wonderful setup tools, documentation, etc.
  - groundCode 13y ago
    while the ads are over the top, the core message of "configure how many of those, and how much of that etc" did kind of draw me in.
andrewryno 13y ago
I don't believe it's YouTube that he's complaining but rather the retargeting campaign by DigitalOcean themselves. I've had a few companies that retarget me on YouTube relentlessly. Ads themselves don't bother me, but seeing the same one dozens of times a day gets irritating.
kidcoach 13y ago
We can't critique bad youtube ads because youtube is good ? That seems logical.

diziet 13y ago

You can potentially install adblock and never see said ad (or any other ad) unless you need to disable adblock. It's a case of simple and effective retargetting.

yatsyk 13y ago
Adblock works for desktop browser. But I watch youtube on mobile or android media player in app mostly.
- alive-or-not 13y ago
  There are ad-blockers for Android, they don't even require root on 4.x. There are also WiFi routers that filter all traffic.
- rdl 13y ago
  Would you be willing to use a mitm proxy as part of a VPN service to accomplish that?
bencollier49 13y ago
I hate a lot of ads, but don't really think adblock is fair. If the ads in totality bug me enough, I might stop going to a site, upload elsewhere etc..