Video Ads Frustration

Users complain about interruptions from video ads, including unskippable and embedded ads, excessive frequency, and failures to load or skip properly.

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Sample Comments

TerrifiedMouse Oct 15, 2023 View on HN

As long as ads don't show up at inopportune times and break the flow of the video.

shermanyo Sep 21, 2016 View on HN

Ads for your own content are still ads. I just want to watch 20 minutes without interruption.

wruza Mar 18, 2025 View on HN

they'll sit through the ad to avoid sitting through a black screenBold claim.

perl4ever Nov 24, 2019 View on HN

It's not the quantity of ads overall, it's that the content I want to watch is frequently essentially an ad anyway, and in this case it was for the same entity, and yet I can't watch it uninterrupted.

poikroequ Aug 2, 2024 View on HN

Being forced to watch one or two ads every 3-4 months is unacceptable?

rchaud Aug 24, 2021 View on HN

The videos usually have unskippable ads.

helij Nov 25, 2023 View on HN

Yes, I give up once I get two ads in the space of 30s or when I can't properly skip the video to nth minute.

xavor May 11, 2023 View on HN

Ads take up my electrivity and time. They should pay us to watch them.

scarface74 Aug 24, 2022 View on HN

You’re not “avoiding ads” by manually having to skip over them.

drdeca Nov 9, 2021 View on HN

Ad blockers don't block the ad if it is incorporated as part of the video.