Person Suggests YouTube Should Remove Ads From First-Aid Videos Because People Usually Need Info Fast, Company's Response Is Infuriating

This is quite an interesting one

Maryjane

• Published in Interesting
• January 27, 2024

Ads streams on YouTube are unavoidable. For those who subscribe to ad-supported versions of their preferred streaming services, they stifle our marathons of Netflix, interrupt dramas on Hulu, and interfere with YouTube lessons.

However, they also generate large sums of money, many of which are returned to the content producers. Though some sites make an effort to compete, YouTube is essentially in a class of its own when it comes to free streaming, with 2.1 billion monthly active users globally.

That's fantastic for both producers and consumers—until the fourth commercial plays in a row and you begin to lose track of the final step in the direction. Perhaps you are accustomed to pop-up ads on websites and TV commercial breaks and can take them as part of the price of doing business.

However, the majority find YouTube ads to be intrusive and annoying, and the platform is making it more difficult to ignore them. Fortunately, most in-stream advertisements that appear before or during a YouTube video are brief (15 seconds or less) and simple to skip.

This strikes me as a really decent middle ground between avoiding and viewing advertisements. The only catch is that content providers might choose to make these advertisements inevitable.

Redditor u/GrantFunko has gone to the r/facepalm subreddit group to share a reason why YouTube ads are a problem.

OP writes

And here's a screenshot of the response

YouTube and YouTube Premium are the same, except for the advertisements. It comes included with YouTube Music Premium and enables users to download videos for later viewing and play ad-free music and videos in the background on desktop computers.

Additionally, it removes ads from shares you make to YouTube Kids intended for younger audiences. The people who make the content you view will continue to get paid if you follow this lawful and moral method of avoiding YouTube advertising.

The Reddit post went super viral with 127k upvotes with thousands of comments and here are a bunch of them

Okay, this Redditor has chosen to be honestly brutal

A joke that got big on twitter

This Redditor shares their own story of a YouTube ad and it wasn't funny

They should not have left a reply in the first place

The mobile app is a whole other different story

That was the dumbest argument

Blaming YouTube is pointing fingers at the wrong person

The person ought to call 911

Somebody needs to be paid for they content they make

Perhaps you create your own YouTube videos out of a passion for the medium rather than for the money. You can choose to disable advertising so that people can watch your videos without being distracted by tacky commercials but that is not the case as people want to make money.

Leave your opinions about this topic in the comments section below and share them with your loved ones as well.

Maryjane