[washadjeffmad]

You're not their target audience, then.

It's like spam having obvious misspellings as a bandpass filter for lowered reasoning faculties. YouTube ads are made to appeal to the type of person who doesn't use adblocking. They don't care if they're intolerable to you - they already know you're not going to engage.

The question is, if ads are forced on the rest of us and we can't walk into the proverbial other room while they're on, how might we allow ads, make them useless for capturing real data about us, but have them appear valuable?

[dim13]

One correction: ads are not like spam. Ads are spam.

[ipqk]

Spam is unsolicited, and will keep coming no matter what you do.

Web ads are implicitly solicited. You go to websites knowing that they will serve ads. If you don't like it, you can stop going to said websites and no more ads.

[zeusk]

Email spam is implicitly solicited. You open your email knowing people are sending you spam. If you don't like it, you can stop opening your email and no more spam.

[mattnewton]

In fact, from YouTube’s point of view, if they are intolerable enough you can pay them for premium.