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

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.