@jackdunne3335
It’s even more annoying when you have bad internet and when you think the video has finally loaded, it’s 2 30 second unskippable ads
@goofball1_134
youtube fucked up when they started playing 10 midrole ads every video. They've pushed me to adblock when I used to have premium before.
@tatsuyas.drakensang4826
My most hated ad mechanic is what i call a Click Trap. Its an invisible layer placed all over the screen, wherever you click, it auto opens a random shady website. Some times it takes several attempts to actually click what you want to click.
@LKthefox
In Maine, when the sh00ting happened, we were all looking up information about the sh00ter / what was currently happening. On the news site it was mostly playing on, we had to watch 2 minute ads before we could get our information, and we missed very important information about the killer, victims, and locations. Needless to say we learned FROM TWITTER that the sh00tings were 10 minutes away from us and the name of the suspect. I think that's actually criminal that News sites in particular have video ads that cover the important content. That's insane Edit: Yes, I know I censored words. YouTube deleted my comment before. Not anything deep.
@billcipher147
I also love how YouTube has the gall to play ads twice as long as the video you're trying to watch. Heck, it's not even unusual to get 20 second ads for a 5 second video. It's absolute insanity.
@Micha-Hil
I'm shocked that there hasn't been an official, legally mandated ruleset for advertising on a website. Holy shit. This is getting out of hand.
@navier_velvet
"turn off your adblock" yeah, sure! (closes the tab)
@skulldragon9052
My absolute most detested ad style is when there is an invisible ad covering the entire web page, so if you accidentally click instead of scroll you get redirected to a virus site.
@Birdleyyt
I hate those websites that refuse to work with adblocker, but when you turn it off you get hundreds of popups and you can barely see the page
@ReelGT
I honestly am so sick of pop up ads or trying to load a page and reading something and it disappears like half a page down and having to scroll down to find it
@KTSpeedruns
The average youtube experience: Click Title -> 15 second unskippable ad -> skippable ad -> thirty second intro -> one minute sponsor spot -> 15 seconds unskippable ad -> skippable ad -> three minutes -> ad interrupts mid sentence -> four more minutes -> 15 second unskippable ad -> skippable ad -> video's conclusion -> click away or pause video before it ends to avoid more ads.
@wendyscribbles
By the time you get through the 2min news story, you won't even remember what the guy even said at the beginning because you are frustrated with the ads.
@TeeBar420
The trick to adblock-blockers is more adblockers. I run like 5 of them at once and almost nothing stops my browsing
@jonnekallu1627
You turn off the ad blocker to read a news story and after seeing 10 minutes of ads you realize that the news story was a disguised ad all along.
@biancadesousa
I disabled ads because after my mom died from cancer all I got were ads related to cancer and it was so triggering.
@toddmorningstar4206
It is fucking ludicrous that there are actually people who try to design systems to counter ad blockers. They must be some of the most grating of corporate goons to interact with.
@alsenesiaart2395
I was at a funeral for a man who passed in his 90s. After long and emotional peaches from his family they went to play his favourite song (an old Irish song) and an unslippable ad for tiktok played. It was the most surreal and uncomfortable thing.
@BigBoyBigCity
The irony is I have NEVER been influenced or interested in an online ad I’ve seen.
@Vxvulex
What I find funny is that since YouTube banned Adblockers, the people behind the extension/browser/etc have to constantly refine and reprogram whatever they were running to avoid being detected by YouTube. So all in all, YouTube just made Adblocking extensions, browsers and so on even better than before. And they broadcasted to everyone - who didn't know Adblockers were a thing - that Adblock exists.
@ThisHandleSystemCanGetNicked