Has YouTube gotten annoying to watch?

RATM

You gotta love YouTube for its content for sure but now it seems the intrusions to viewing it are on the increase.

First it was iTunes urging you to buy the song of the vid your lokking at but now they've gone into full blown ads from all over the place. To the point that I had an AIB ad flash up last night. Ironically I was watching a clip on Enron at the time.

Reckon the golden age of an ad free Youtube has now passed and in the future we'll all be chasing the X to close down annoying ads popping up while we're watching

speedboatchase

The annotations, frozen images used to trick people into watching clips and sheer amount of homosexual male teenage "youtube celebrities" were the beginning of the end

EDIT - let's not forget pop songs accompanied by poorly edited clips of anime shows

Trashbat

I like the comments section. I often get worried if i spend too long without witnessing idiots having arguements which soon decent into racist mudslinging.

It lets me know there are still people with even less to do with their lives than me.

Standard Toaster

There is some great content up there though, just have to find it.

http://www.youtube.com/user/4oDDocumentaries

Duggy747

YouTube culture is bullshìt anyways, how does arsewipes talking about "kooky" and "zany" things like squirrel AIDS or something gather hundreds of thousands of views.

While news set in reality are just kept to the hundreds.

Ghost Train

Was always going to happen after google moved in on it. Good the way music is handled on it. Got a lot better content-wise. No ads on the ipod version of it yet

Galvasean

It bothers me when I go to view my own videos (ones I made/uploaded) only to get pop up ads on them! Sneaky buggers. :mad:

liah

Eh... I was never that big into the whole YouTube culture. It always seemed kind of annoying. Also hate how it got to the point where instant messaging conversations are basically just linking YouTube clips constantly. I like to chill and to read interesting articles with my own music in the background, stop sending me YouTube links and disrupting my peace, damnit! :mad:

cedomination

Duggy747 wrote: »

YouTube culture is bullshìt anyways, how does arsewipes talking about "kooky" and "zany" things like squirrel AIDS or something gather hundreds of thousands of views.

While news set in reality are just kept to the hundreds.

I love youtube but goddamn I hate RayWilliamJohnson so much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlEAdoddUW8

Duggy747

cedomination wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlEAdoddUW8

*vomits*

Canis Lupus

If they could just ban the people who contribute video comments then I could live with it.

kodute

Chrome + AdBlock FTW

AnonoBoy

Video Bloggers.

Are they real people?

I thought they were just proof of the existence of the devil or something.

Penn

Pretty much anybody who puts up their own "reviews" of movies, tv, games etc

Why the hell do you think anybody cares what you think? You're about 19, overweight, recording yourself in your bedroom, and for some reason, you think people actually care what you think? Quit wasting both my time and your own and just put up a video of yourself falling off a table or something

Max Power1

it got much worse when they changed the page format imo

Orla K

I didn't mind the itunes ads so much, after all they were only on the song I was listening too. The other ads annoyed me a little just for the volume of them. Those stupid comments that people put at certain times in the video on annoy me, they're normally stupid and distracting. What really annoys me about it is a video might be there, I have found it after searching but when I try to watch it I'm in the wrong country. This first happened with a channel 4 thing that I searched for that was only on youtube, no other video of it seems to be on the internet.

Also one very helpful documentary seems to have completely vanished from the internet. The damn thing was made to be viewed by as many people as possible and they remove it from the internet.

The only good thing is I seem to find alot of old films(1920-1980) there were far better actors in the past although alot of early ones are cheesy now.

tipperaryboy

Ads were bound to come along at some time google just sped the process up.what really is annoying is all the bubble boxes that pop up all over the video asking you to favourite,subscribe etc.

mikom

cedomination wrote: »

I love youtube but goddamn I hate RayWilliamJohnson so much.

An absolute tool.
How he gets so many views, I'll never know.

Don't get me started on the Shaytards or this wan whose face is made up of 50% teeth and gums....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJhqM6Qqkns

rovert

RATM wrote: »

You gotta love YouTube for its content for sure but now it seems the intrusions to viewing it are on the increase.

First it was iTunes urging you to buy the song of the vid your lokking at but now they've gone into full blown ads from all over the place. To the point that I had an AIB ad flash up last night. Ironically I was watching a clip on Enron at the time.

Reckon the golden age of an ad free Youtube has now passed and in the future we'll all be chasing the X to close down annoying ads popping up while we're watching

lol the username and message

SMASH THE SYSTEM

OutlawPete

It's wrecking my head lately.

They have messed the whole thing up to fcuk.

I still can't figure out the new thumbs up score malarky.

Also, when I get comments on my vids now via email, the comments are not on the site.

Somebody when and fixed something that wasn't broke and needs to get broke them damn selves.

Chorcai

Max Power1 wrote: »

it got much worse when they changed the page format imo

I liked the old way, now things are floating or something, just doesnt look right at.

we'llallhavetea_old

mikom wrote: »

An absolute tool.
How he gets so many views, I'll never know.

Don't get me started on the Shaytards or this wan whose face is made up of 50% teeth and gums....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJhqM6Qqkns

oh christ..

Gillington

Harder to find vids,stupid ads and those speech bubble things = far less of Gillington's time.

OxfordComma

It's still good for music I guess (apart from that VEVO thing they've started using, which really bugs me, although I can't really explain why!)

The video bloggers are as annoying/pointless as ever. And the ads drive me mad obviously.

phantom_lord

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbobBCe5-kU

amacachi

Never understood Google paying what they did for YouTube, I don't think it'll be possible to make it profitable. The ads needed are going to drive people away.

New page layout is annoying. Having a 30 second-long ad before a 12 second video was very annoying.

df1985

i cant stand the new layout of it, its been "facebooked" with all the thumbs up and liking stuff.

Chorcai

phantom_lord wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbobBCe5-kU

Oh lord.

--LOS--

The amount of cover versions on there is annoying, spend half my time trying to get through the man and guitar brigade to find a song :mad:

Misty Chaos

phantom_lord wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbobBCe5-kU

Christ, thats bad. Couldn't even make it through 30 seconds! And this is coming from someone who follows of lot of the big youtubbers. :pac:

phantom_lord

she's great imo

Tar.Aldarion

bawksy is the best! I love her


Thumb up is good and thumb down is bad pete

Exclamation Marc

Yeah it's gotten really awful and annoying to watch. I remember the days where you could listen to whatever you wanted when havin people over or predrinking on a night out, easy stuff. Now you have to trawl through pages of cover versions or mis-labelled crap. Not worth it. The amount of false videos that are just advertising. Feel like I'm wasting my life when I end up trawling through that sh!te. And the advertising, it's gonna end up a bit like Sky Sports News with bars flying left right and centre when trying to watch something.

Snowie

No interest in the hole watching point less videos but the not so pointles s videos for the likes of stripping bikes/airsoft guns/ working on cars/ can all be every usefull

Gummy Panda

Leave boxxy alone!!

OutlawPete

It was a lifesaver the last hour

Sergeant

I like the faceplant videos. I never get tired of watching some asshóle fall off a skateboard while trying a "narly" trick.

I dislike looking for a tune, and getting some asshóle doing his brooding, one man and his guitar cover version.

AnonoBoy

phantom_lord wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbobBCe5-kU

Jesus she's f*cking irritating.

Biggins

Well some blokes like to state they hate the "Got Talent" shows and the uploaded clips.
The keyboard macho blokes say they are crap and boring.

Me? O' well, I guess I will just have to watch 3 fit ladies doing pole dancing on my own then!

Dravokivich

df1985 wrote: »

i cant stand the new layout of it, its been "facebooked" with all the thumbs up and liking stuff.

There was a "favourite" feature on Youtube long before the like feature on facebook. It appears they've rebranded it...

Either way, without Youtube I would never of found this gem...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY0xwRIGOdc

baltimore sun

ah youtube is great for stuff, my fav would be music a=but also various tutorials for new software/programs etc

one think i do hate it youtube dj-ing at parties....never lettin a song get more than halfway without someone else puttin on something else

mike65

Stop fcuking quoting that video! :mad:

Anyway, its GOT not gotton and the new layout is wretched I'm also getting requets to upgrade Adobe Flash for certain vids which is also annoying.

A "youtube minimum" would be great, its all getting rather cluttered and slow.

Sisko

Ah gotta love the remixes though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdiz0k0Rudw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W42p0N5_ihM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxCSJ3VZgyY

krudler

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Jesus she's f*cking irritating.

"I dont do drugs, and i dont have ADD either!"

clearly you're just an annoying cnut then..

OutlawPete

I just noticed also.

When you select videos for the 'Quicklist" that plays your choices in succession, they Quicklist icon is nowhere to be seen

I ended up having to Google "YouTube Quicklist" to find the damn page.

This is my damn Jukebox they be messing with :mad:

Bonito

I hate the new layout. I have to go all the way in to my home page to get my playlists. I liked it when they were in the drop down menu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grt-MuzIiJk

Dman001

Google are finally making Youtube profitable with these ads. I noticed too that they are planting ads everywhere.

cedomination

amacachi wrote: »

New page layout is annoying. Having a 30 second-long ad before a 12 second video was very annoying.

I've never ever had to watch an advertisement on youtube

df1985 wrote: »

i cant stand the new layout of it, its been "facebooked" with all the thumbs up and liking stuff.

People only ever voted 5 stars or 1 star, so youtube changed it to a simple "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" so you can see exactly how many people like/disliked it. Much better this way IMO.