For real though

@Miriamm

ESPECIALLY if you interrupt, say, Yuja Wang during the first movement of a piano concerto: I will make a note of your product / service and NEVER USE IT

@Miriamm companies should pay google NOT to display their ads
@Miriamm just want to highlight a Mac app called “dynamo”. When an ad starts playing, press “e” and it skips to the end of the ad.

@Miriamm

#Exactamundo!

But to be fair, it's not the advertisers placing them. it's the site itself. But, yeah, they're both annoying.

Always make a point of buying the product from their greatest competition.
Who are probably advertising on the other channel and annoying someone else.

Aaaaggggghhhhh!

*Puts phone down, makes coffee* A product we can all get behind.

@Miriamm
Hard SAME.
They think brand recognition is so important that they don't care what they are being recognized for.

@Miriamm Especially if it's those obnoxious ads that go on for 3 fucking hours with the most stupid bloody stories behind them.

Yes I know you can skip but damnit doing it that 4 times a video is awful.

@Miriamm When I never get interrupted, because I use a ad blocker
@Miriamm I have pointed out many times how if i find ads for a product intrustive I will make it a point not to buy that product.
@Miriamm even a car commercial? C'mon!
@Miriamm exactly! If I were interested in the product. I might look it up. As it is, I’m looking up a competitive product.

@Miriamm This applies to all ads for me (no matter where they are).

Fuck ads.

@Miriamm igeblock app for Android.
It removes that shit.
@Miriamm If there's advertising interrupting your video, you ARE the product, so your hate doesn't matter to them.
@Miriamm 100% this! It's the reason I will never buy from hellofresh @lisamelton

@Miriamm
ads interrupting videos?

thank eris (or sponsorblock) I rarely notice that kind of rude behaviour.

@Miriamm You’d think those highly paid advertising fat cats would know this. Maybe they should have a #FocusGroup or something. 😂😂😂😂
@Miriamm In my case, I just tend to research better as blockers.

@Miriamm It’s even worse with the regular ads on web pages, which make it next to impossible to read, especially with mobile browsers.

And then they wonder why we all have ad blockers.

@Miriamm shoutout to air up. I was never going to buy one of their shitty bottles anyway because of Frank "wannabe Musk" Thelen and their lies about using 100% recycled plastic for their pods, but with these annoying ads running multiple times on every yt video I will actively tell people to not buy their product. Instead just use a normal bottle and if you don’t want to drink pure water, add syrup.
@Miriamm Install an adblocker!
@Miriamm I wouldn't really mind, if the sound wouldn't suddenly be so much louder.
@Miriamm “It’s hard to make good quality art when, every 15 minutes, your art is interrupted by an ad of animated bunnies selling cigarettes” Rod Serling
@Miriamm Holy shit yes! This is especially true when its music of any kind!
@Miriamm I've seen the same Holiday Extras advert on YouTube 4 or 5 times a day for 2 weeks now and it's driving me mental. Absolutely hate it!
@Miriamm I sometimes forget that the internet is powered by ads with uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock installed
@Miriamm This!! Also if you keep calling me to ask for money do you really think you're going to get it? Stupid!
@Miriamm Thank you! mid-video ads need to stop.

@Miriamm

there is SO much truth here I have trouble believing it. carry on

@Miriamm I wish that ads were considered a form of information harassment
@Miriamm Even more: if I remember anything about an annoying ad, it is only to look for alternatives to that product and suggest them to any who may be interested in such.
@Miriamm when I heard they were going to offer Disney+ or Netflix with ads I seriously considered cancelling both. I left cable TV because I didn't want ads. If these streaming services think that making me sit through ads will entice me to stay for any reason, they're so wrong. I'll make my own ad free shadow puppet shows on the damn wall.
@Miriamm I've made not buying what we called "brand name" products when I was a kid a rule all of my life. I refuse to reward advertising, but I will always penalize it if I remember an ad for a "brand"/product, then that product I will not buy [exceptions being things like whole product classes... I still drink milk in spite of the mustache ads from when I was a kid] I can't recall the last bad generic instant coffee I've had. When I was forced to try Folgers ("in my cup") it was terrible.
@Miriamm That's not how marketing works. You've seen it, so it's in your head. Whether you like it or not.
@Miriamm looking at you ACT Party... 👀
@Miriamm do they have a choice tho?
Like can they say "I only want this in the middle of a video"?
@Miriamm New Balance has been running unskippable ads on YouTube and this has made me determined to boycott them to the ends of time.

@Miriamm @_L1vY_ This is why I watch ABC Sitcoms - they put the advertising right in the show so it doesn’t interrupt me. They once did an episode of Blackish about the Microsoft Surface Pro.

They also did an entire episode arc where Dre and Bow suddenly stopped driving high end Mercedes (S and G cars) and started driving Buicks and then they have their daughter a Buick for her birthday. And then literally - listed off the features of the car.

@Miriamm BuhBuhBuhBIN-GO!

I’ve even stated on YouTube start-stopping videos until it loads without the ads. It’s a bit absurd and sometimes even takes longer than just watching a stupid ad, but it’s the principle of it.

@Miriamm sometimes i will deliberately avoid your product in the short term if you have a particularly annoying or persistent advertising campaign lol. like i cant imagine ever shopping at dep*p now thanks to their annoying af ads
@Miriamm
The most obnoxious aspect of most ads is their depiction of what they clearly see as their desired customers — Stepford zombies, who live their banal lives for tiny improvements in irrelevant products.