YouTube ads maddeningly repetitive. Monzo me? No just kill me now.

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AIBU to find 💯 of YouTube ads not only irrelevant to me but also repetitive to the point of me wanting to throw my phone across the room. The xylophone on one of them - is it revolut? I shout “ not relevant to me !” In the sad hope that the Dumpkopf algorithm might hear me and HAVE MERCY ON MY NERVES.
revolut
monzo “MONZO ME? I’VE GOT THIS!” 😣
abs of steel - various
car finance (I didn’t ever buy cars with finance - stop advertising at me you A**les!)
It makes me determined to never patronize these companies - having said that ads have never once been relevant to me on youtube.
Maybe intelligent people go ad free?
Who can stand these ads?

The thing is even if you block the advert it comes back! I’m sick of hearing about some charm necklace this silly bint put together online…I don’t care love!!!

Totally agree OP and I feel YouTube has change so much since I first started using it in 2009

I get a lot of Scottish YouTube ads. Apparently Scotland are bringing in new regulations for those in charge of vulnerable children and adults...? Lovely, I'm sure, but I don't live anywhere near Scotland so I don't know why I would need to know this.

Are they trying to drive us to pay for no ads? All it’s doing is making me use YouTube less.

You can probably install an ad blocker in less than a minute...

That bloody Lucozade one with the godawful song on it😡

Of course they are trying to annoy you into paying.

Quite cheeky when they don’t even create/pay for any of the content, as the price doesn’t justify it.

No wonder a lot of people resort to software like 4K Video Downloader to just download a copy to their laptop and watch it ad-free. Technically against their terms of use of course but, then again, a lot of Youtube's content can be accessed without even logging in.

I get grammarly every single time
tbh I write a lot for work and for myself so it could potentially be useful but the adverts are so utterly annoying (the underwater one 🤬🤬🤬) I'd rather cut my nose off to spite my face than ever consider using it.

Hopefully chatgpt will render it superfluous!

i've tried several ad blockers, they don't work on video ads

I get that shithead Mormon piano teaching guy. YouTube is just AdTube now. Mind, so is the rest of the internet. Adverts, extended adverts (ie influencers) and goad-speech.

Oh the piano lesson guy! I don’t get those now thank God! I am now getting “buy crypto”ads all the time when I’m not getting shi**ing Monzo me “you’re a lifesaver” 🤯.
Why don’t the advertisers realize how this doesn’t work? I guess if they get a few people they don’t care?

Wow I’ve never been vetted by mumsnet before - I’m only moaning about YouTube ads! 😂

I was thinking about this the other day. I just seem to get loads of what I call scam adverts. Americans advertising the latest gadget or pills that will reverse age. I’m convinced most are complete scams, they can’t be genuine. I can’t tell you the last time I saw an advert for a normal product - like Nike or Robinsons squash.

Talking of ads, has anyone seen that disgusting ad for Lynx Lower Body Spray? I could not believe my eyes, there is a man sniffing another man's cock and a woman sniffing a blokes arse😡 I mean you do not need to spray your nether regions with spray, but have a bloody shower and who goes around sniffing others bits? we are not animals ffs

there is no sense of decency and decorum anymore

The one about the revolutionary heating device, designed by a clever student. I once decided to watch it to do my own research on it: and in the three minutes of waffle, not once was the name of the product mentioned! I think it was a scam, marketed under several different names.

I don’t watch YouTube for that reason. It’s unwatchable.

Knight Frank are the worst. Drony voice which is certainly AI ( AS) as it has the wrong inflection, and a Meghan lookalike sprinkling flowers on her carrots ( do they think that will be popular?). IDont want to buy or sell my house and it I did I’d rather use anyone but KF now.

Plus bloody PANTENE🥵

You're getting a service for free. I'm not,I pay 12 quid a month for the premium service. It's no good you complaining about excessive ads when you don't want to put your hand in your pocket and be ad free. You have a choice.

Nothing is as grating as those hideously 'quirky' Numan weight loss ads with the woman with the bloody goldfish.

Yes you should be 'shamed' Ava, not for using weight loss medication but for being that fucking irritating.

I use duck duck go to avoid ads. It works for most but not all YouTube videos.

Oh, and the one with the guy fixing his car with parts sourced from Ebay. God help me.

"I get that shithead Mormon piano teaching guy."
Is that the hyper shouty one who sounds like he's off his face on coke, bashing the piano and claiming that traditional piano teaching is shit and he can make you into a concert pianist in about 15 seconds per day for a few months? Twat.

I get the revolutionary heating device designed by a clever student also. That energy companies "don't want people to know" about. The nationality of the student changes but they are always male.

I don’t get shouty eejit saying
“don’t ever do THIS in a PowerPoint!” any more.
I hate the Monzo one most.
I used to get the heating device one endlessly.
£12 A MONTH!
that is a lot, I wonder what percentage of people pay?

I was already using YouTube music (well I was using GPM but Google killed it) so I just paid slightly more to stop the ads. Can't go back now but I use vouchers I get from work so I'm not actually paying for it really.