GooberTheHat wrote:

Kids YouTube is a thing, not sure if it has adds or not, but its content is limited.

I'm not a parent but I can understand that. Where is the line drawn, I used to love the Argos cataog for example, and probably loved ads for toys and the snes when that came out. I'm not disagreeing btw, just casting my mind back to being a kid and some of the ads I liked.

For maybe an older kid who understands no. For toddlers it's just lousy.

Kow wrote:

For maybe an older kid who understands no. For toddlers it's just lousy.

I'm on board with this stance.

I would find YouTube ads somewhat less annoying if I were often watching especially long content. but I'm not, and most of the time I'm searching out a particular track to listen to, or trying to locate a tutorial for some thing or another; vids that are typically just a few mins in length. Hearing two ads every few minutes is fucking maddening, even more so when it's the same ad over and over and over, and then it gets exponentially even  more annoying when the vid you clicked on quickly reveals itself to not be exactly what you were looking for, so then you've just watched 2 ads for nothing, and must then watch 2 more ads to retry- again the same ones. ugh

My tolerance for ads is exactly 0. Adblock as much as possible, skip past any sponsor spot shit and try not to see what it's for. If something does manage to get past that and sneak into my mind I'll make a conscious effort to not spread it to anyone else, and put that company on a bit of a shit list where I won't consider using it without elimination of potentially superior non-advertised alternatives.