Is there something about a funeral plan that you find insulting? Having to wade through advertisements is unfortunately just part of using YouTube these days. Unless you pay monthly money to subscribe to their service so you don't have to see the advertisements. You may have to make a new account. I don't think there's anything necessarily all that unusual about what you are experiencing. If you want to see different ads, do multiple google searches for transgender surgery and you should start getting ads for surgical procedures, female clothing, and male tampons instead.
You should try ad blocking extensions or apps that can be added to your browser, which mostly block YouTube ads and other unwanted ads. AdBlock Plus (ABP) is among the most popular ad blockers, with extensions available for Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera. I need this especially when I browse through Russian websites to filter out malicious ads.
I wouldn't have reason for complaint if that had been the case. The match between my online shopping/search queries and the ad itself, is 0.00% Plus I routinely delete all tracking cookies.
~ I started getting funeral / cremation / life insurance stuff when I turned 65. I think certain things trigger these ads. ~ Yes that would be a good idea.
You would be surprised how these sites harvest your information. Any information you voluntarily provide to any site run by a large corporation is often sold. The process is entirely automatic and automated - that is this all happens with no human having to do anything. If any big site has ever gotten your name, that name will be cross referenced with a database so the algorithm has your age, and then these ads will continue following you wherever you go using that internet address. Some of the really sophisticated algorithms can even recognize your email. That is, if you ever start pulling up your same email on another computer, those targeted ads will start following you there too. The algorithms can also harvest your name from any emails you receive, if your email provider has signed an agreement with a third party to sell your information. There's huge money to be made in targeted advertising, so they have some really sophisticated artificial intelligence programs that can pick up on these things, and try to figure out everything about you.
My complaint still stands. It sounds to me like you're trying to water the whole thing down. The facts are still as follows: 1. It was just the one ad only for funeral plans that was shown over and over again. There were no other ads on that theme shown. 2. The exact same ad would be displayed many times consecutively. 3. When I hit the relevant button to stop seeing the ad numerous times, it had absolutely no effect.
These creepy ads on YouTube also bring to mind what was going on with Cambridge Analytica who used targeted ads on Facebook. Both Facebook and Cambridge Analytica were publicaly reprimanded for their behaviour. However you can't help wondering whether the real reason for Cambridge Analytica's being reprimanded was the fact that they boasted on their website of having got Trump elected.
Thanks YouTube! Yet another serious bug that stops you from using the channel properly, however this one stops you from using the channel altogether. When you open the home page (or indeed any other page for that matterl) you get a dialogue box that asks you to agree to your privacy options. You get the same repeated request every single day even though you had already previously selected the privacy options that applied to you. Okay fine, as if that wasn't annoying enough. However today the annoying dialogue box fails to fill in properly and remains blank, while the connection remains busy waiting for a response and it's impossible to close the box down or proceed in any way. Here's a screenshot of the problem: View attachment 126694 I don't know how many other people have also been effected by this problem but this doesn't come across as being very professional from YouTube. They need to hire a new team of web developers. A previous problem effecting many users, including myself, was being unable to sign in and use your YouTube channel properly. This problem has now been solved and now they are encouraging users who have fallen out of the habit of signing in to sign in with a second annoying dialogue box. YouTube may use the current health crisis as an excuse for such glitches, but come on, once a website is up an running and has been properly tested it should stay running. Does anyone else have any opinions about this?
The above problem seems to have fixed itself now but I'm still receiving those annoying popups from YouTube asking you to sign in or agree to the privacy agreement, yet again. I was only blocked from the site for one day, but that was annoying enough. Another recurring problem I've had with YouTube is where half of the dual core CPU goes into a constant overdrive, i.e. almost 100% usage, whereas the other half remain normal. The only way of rectifying the problem is to do a complete Restart, which can be really inconvenient. Here's a screenshot of the problem: The problem only seems to occur with YouTube and I've heard that it's caused by badly coded JavaScript. It happens when there is a logical loop in the code that it can't break out of and this causes half of the CPU to go into overdrive. Again the only remedy is a complete Restart. But what is YouTube doing with bad coding on its site? I've not seen this with other websites. Again it really sounds like YouTube needs to hire a new team of web developers.
Or any person in any job whose work allows them to use a computer/phone/tablet with a web browser and internet access during work hours.
This particular problem may arise from your browser not saving cookies(or deleting them after your sessions end). I run into a similar problem with website logins because my browser automatically clears cookies when the program closes.
I don't like cookies being used that way. Any log that you've selected the relevant YouTube privacy preferences should be stored safely at the back end rather than at the front end on your PC.
I wonder if the use, or should I say misuse, of cookies like this is to deter people from using the privacy option which routinely deletes cookies after leaving the site. Companies that do this want you to use their tracking cookies (spyware) which can track your entire activity across the net.
