Top Ten Most Annoying Things About YouTube Ads

The Top Ten
1 When you can't skip them

Those kinds of YouTube ads are the worst especially if you have to watch two of those before watching the video. If you are really lucky, you get to watch 15 seconds unskippable ad.

I hate hate HATE YouTube ads. Why does YouTube always have to get it's way? Every time there's something I want to watch, this unskipable ad comes on and I have to refresh, refresh, refresh because they won't let me watch a video without playing.

Every time on every video it's the unskippable Power Rangers trailer OR something promoting Nickelodeon. This really makes me want to upgrade to YT Red

I was watching Caillou - A Camping We Will Go, but I got a childish ad for babies on Netflix, which I really hate Netflix anyway.

2 They're inappropriate

I keep seeing condom ads and they really shouldn't be allowed on social media or on YouTube in general. It pisses me off that they do it anyway. They need to fix this bs

I watched a kid friendly video and it had an ad with a movie trailer and they said the f word in the trailer.

I keep seeing ads starring that road safety guy in a tutu whilst watching memes

Maybe ads on youtube should just get banned

3 We are trying to watch the video not annoying ads

I agree with this. I'm here to watch my favorite things, not crap that I hate.

Every 2-5 minutes later, a freaking ad pop up, making the video less enjoyable.

I will be half way through a video and then it stops to show me an ad

4 There are app store links on the bottom of the video

I scroll down to find more videos, and lo and behold, a banner ad to download some strategy game or shopping app.

5 The same ads appear 50 times

When I click on a video, it's always the same Nintendo Switch ad. I exit out and click on the video, then it shows me the same Nintendo Switch ad again. I repeat exiting out and clicking again for 50 times, but I still get the same Nintendo Switch ad. So annoying!

A few years ago I was watching many videos on my tablet on a airplane and a Ford car ad featuring Sailor Moon kept appearing. Annoying as heck

Every time when I click on a video it always shows me this ad and its really annoying

That happened to me once while watching Buzzfeed stuff and Rough Night kept coming up every 67394 times. ANNOYING!

6 It's inappropriate for the age group

Watching Jimmy Fallon clips, and before every single one is an ad for either Henry Danger or The Loud House. And of course, scary and R-rated movie trailers on stuff like Sesame Street.

I once got an ad for kids nursery rhymes on a Game Grumps video, and I keep getting UNSKIPPABLE scary movie ads on non-scary videos.

Children go on YouTube nowadays - what if they end up getting suggestive ads?

Insidious. That is all.

7 They appear a lot on video games
8 When you're listening to a song to sleep and then ads wake you up

Yes! I hate it when I put on a Three Days Grace playlist, and they play an advertisement before every single song! It's so annoying! No, I do not want to be woken up by some lady and listen to her talk about how good Pampers diapers are, I wanna listen to music. So that's why I use the music app now!

9 YouTube does nothing about it.

An ad popped up under this...

10 We still don't buy their stuff.

Yep. I'm not buying anything that I see, especially Culturelle Kids probiotics which to me is only for kids and not teens because I'm a teenager and not a kid.

The Contenders
11 Waste of time watching ads.

Especially the unstoppable ones

All ads are waste of time.

12 Appears a lot on websites.
13 The ads are louder than the videos

I have to turn up the volume for the videos because the characters are too quiet. When an ad appear, it got very loud.

It's true try it out

14 The same ad appears on every video you click

I had this happen before I had the same ad on every video I clicked on, it was so annoying

15 It happens during videos

I hate when they play in the middle of the video it is so annoying

16 Some of them are in Spanish.

Recently YouTube decided to play the Joker Movie Trailer in Spanish and also a Boost Mobile Ad in Spanish along with a bunch of other advertisements in Spanish. Which pisses me off! I want to find the person who decided to do that and ram those ads up where the sun don't shine! Because it's really starting to piss me off!

Luckily I've never got one of those.

17 Ads with swear words in it.
18 Skippable ads when it’s 5 seconds long

This is pointless to have a skippable ad when it is 5 seconds long

19 Ads that are in a different language

Watching ads that are in English is already ridiculous.

I just got an ad that was in a different language it was really annoying

I hate when I get ads in a different language like a french ad, it is super annoying

20 YouTube actually promote ads.

That's why those stupid good-for-nothing gaming youtubers are getting income!

21 The ad buffers
22 They're Irrelevant to the Actual Video

I hate that the Nickelodeon ads are on EVERY VIDEO, including videos that are strictly for adults/older audiences.

And unskippable scary movie trailers on stuff like Sesame Street and school related videos.

In other words, they're completely off-topic to video they're showing. For example, when the video is an episode of a children's cartoon, the ad they show is a trailer to an R-rated movie.

23 Ads that start in the middle of the person conversation

This is annoying when there is an ad in the middle of the person's conversation it drives me nuts

24 Ad skipping option won't let you skip it sometimes

There is a symbol on the bottom left of the ad that looks like the letter I with a circle around it, and when you click on it, it lets you skip ads. While it's nice to have, sometimes IT WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO SKIP THE AD.

Sometimes, the skip button is broken. Unbelievable!

25 I am not Interested in the Type of Ad They're Showing
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