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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". Oh please tell me
by 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 agoTo 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 agoI 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 agowhile 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 agoI 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 agoWe can't critique bad youtube ads because youtube is good ? That seems logical.