Comments on: Why Block YouTube Ads?

By: Engbob123

Engbob123 — Tue, 08 May 2012 16:01:52 +0000

My gripe is not with the google adverts that appear over my video (heck, i can easily close any of these types of adverts). My problem lies with the video adverts that appear over on the right of the page. These videos regularly interrupt the video i’m playing and I do not want to hear about the latest breakthrough in cleaning technology whilst listening to my videos.

Hope this topic is something Youtube amend, although they only have 70 staff, no real helpdesk / support department and the receptionist has been programmed to deliver a frosty reception and not allow regular people through to complain.

Thanks

By: the right answer

the right answer — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:09:10 +0000

No, believe me it matters! ads is the most annoying part of youtube. i actually wait the video to pop the annoying ad to close it then start the video again from the beginning (waste my time)..
The 20% of the video you talking about is too much important part of the video for example there is a lot of informative videos about mac computers which it has all the applications behind the 20% annoying ad..
Plus, I cannot focus on the video when the annoying ad is lighting and shining.
I left the TV because I dont like what am watching at and selected youtube as my TV but the ad reminds me what the annoying home TV was showing to me.
Last, it is not good feeling when there is something telling you: (Buy, Buy, Buy, Buy , Buy…..) while you dont need anything to buy and your thankfull with what you have.

By: asmand

asmand — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:18:29 +0000

I use a UTM ad blocker and block the ads at the gateway. Guests at my house marevl at how fast pages load and how cloean all their websites look.

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:28:59 +0000

Ok, I don’t get it people. I really don’t give a crap about adds. I will never click on them and they are only 15 to 20 seconds long. I really could care less. But when I go to my channel and go through my list of videos, there is this annoyong add that makes my viewing list smaller and it takes up space. Not to mention every time I click on another video the add will dissappear making the list big again and then come back making the list small. It does that over and over and I feel mental watching the list go big, small, big, small, big, small, big, small… This is what REALLLLLY pisses me off. I dont care about adds, just don’t take up space on my channel with them making my video list shrink.

By: easy fix

easy fix — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:09:08 +0000

Email the companies that put these adds up and tell them that its so annoying you will not buy their product that pops up and interferes with youtube watching

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:25:03 +0000

Still getting comments after three years!

I’m one of the “haven’t watch TV for years” crowd. I’ll watch the TV when I go to friends’ places, but we mute the ads so we can chat during the breaks. 8 minutes of TV, 6 minutes of ads. Sometimes we forget to unmute the TV and end up switching it off because we missed whatever it was we were watching anyway.

As for comments like “if it wasn’t for the advertisements on Youtube, the videos you watch would disappear” – sites like Flickr make a living from people who subscribe to the service. Why doesn’t Youtube offer a paid subscription service in addition to their free service? The answer there is that Google makes far more money from advertising than they would make from subscriptions. Flickr considers their clients to be the people uploading photos, Google considers their clients to be the people with the most money to throw at Google.

The world can work just fine without obnoxious ads.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 06:02:16 +0000

i have not watched TV for over 26 years because of Ads. I get my news in other ways or sites that do not advertise. I also mute all ads if longer than 5 secs (like Hulu); I think the public should boycott all cable TV etc for 6 months and do other things with their time. Ads usurp your valuable time with garbage and stuff you never buy anyway. Because of ads the product cost goes up. My suggestion is to limit all ads to no more than station ID and less than 10 seconds in any 30 minute interval especially during 6am to 9am and 6pm to 11pm.
The ads should be on call basis only, if you have time to waste, you may shut off the filters. Ads by demand only.
I think the public is ready to pay as much as $10 a month for content only stations. Are you ready? then renege all during the next 3 months. Just cancel cables and any TV promos like directTv etc. I think the message will be clear.
Hope the consumer will win this war.

By: Boredgeek

Boredgeek — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 22:18:43 +0000

If it wasn’t for the advertisements on Youtube, the videos you watch would disappear. Sure, another site would start up, then it would get big and the costs would increase for that site and they would then have to think of new ways to get advertisers to give them more money.

Removing advertisements from the internet would really limit the amount of content on the internet as well.

Someone brought up 4chan as an example, and that was pretty dumb. The cost for pictures and gifs in bandwidth pale in comparison to the cost of streaming millions upon millions of videos to the millions of people subscribed and the millions more watching without subscribing.

All this complaining sounds like a bunch of children that want instant gratification for no cost, or adults that have absolutely no clue as to how a company HAS to work to be profitable. Youtube isn’t a hobby website people, they spend the amount of time they do working on it for free.

By: jt

jt — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 20:54:44 +0000

MY Computer,
My Electricity
My Connection
My Thoughts
Right now it’s easy to block ads as well other commercial messages.
When it becomes difficult I will seek information another way.
It’s that simple….
Ads and advertisers are like roaches….

YOU HAVE TO KEEP SPRAYING …….

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:00:14 +0000

I’m OK with the little windows that pop up at the bottom of the video, but the videos that play before the one I want to watch are down right annoying. I’d be OK with them too if you didn’t have to watch them all the way through the end.