[d23]

> These people plague me with condescending adverts on YouTube about how I've been "coding like a beast" and need some "cloud server action".

Oh please tell me more about how the people helping to support the largest video database in the history of mankind -- available 24/7 at your fingertips for free -- are "plaguing" you with their relevant advertisements that take all of 5 seconds to skip.

If you really want to be a horse's ass, just get adblock and be done with it.

[pfraze]

To be fair-- and sorry to DigitalOcean guys that are reading this, but this is honest feedback-- that ad really bugs me. It's got the "rockstar-itus." It's hard to pin down why that feels condescending, but it does.

I hear really good things about the service, though, so kudos to DigitalOcean for that.

[michaelbuckbee]

I think the issue is that the ads "read" so unauthentically compared to the very positive experience I've had with DO and their wonderful setup tools, documentation, etc.

[groundCode]

while the ads are over the top, the core message of "configure how many of those, and how much of that etc" did kind of draw me in.

[andrewryno]

I don't believe it's YouTube that he's complaining but rather the retargeting campaign by DigitalOcean themselves. I've had a few companies that retarget me on YouTube relentlessly. Ads themselves don't bother me, but seeing the same one dozens of times a day gets irritating.

[kidcoach]

We can't critique bad youtube ads because youtube is good ? That seems logical.

[ntumlin]

I think d23 interpreted it to be a complaint against all ads on youtube as opposed to that particular ad being annoying.

[d23]

Actually, you can take it either way. Saying they're "plaguing" him is ridiculous.