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Comment by soneil | Hacker News Reader

> Why? The ads aren't that bad.

Honestly, the ads are easily the worst part of youtube for me. I'm logged into my google account, everywhere, all the time. And yet they still appear to go out of their way to find the least relevant ads they can find. Adsense doesn't seem to suffer the same, so this disconnect has always puzzled me.

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I have had a 4 minute long song in a style of music I NEVER listen to as a YT ad before. I'm not going to listen to some 2nd rate rock moaner for 4 minutes between every 4 minute long weeaboo track I'm trying to listen to.

I get bombarded with so many Lyft ads on my android device. Every other video I play is preceded by a Lyft ad. I finally caved in, downloaded the app and signed up for it. Their ads still haven't stopped.

I think there's no mystery there. Video ads are fewer and cost more and Google needs to present "impressions" to their customers.

So... are you a human? Then this ad might be of interest to you :P

I'm not a video ad buyer, but as a viewer I'd be amazed if I found out that Youtube offers better video ad targeting than TV. And that's ridiculous.

What really gets me, is a lot of the ads I’ve been getting are stuff 50yo “ad tech” would get right. Lately I’ve been getting a womens' clothing brand which appears to only exist in north america. I’m a male in northern europe. A print ad in a national newspaper would do a better job “targetting” than that.

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