Why I Am BoyCotting YouTube Ads

This picture brought to you in response to comments in the last post.  Some of you clicked over and just didn’t see anything.  To get here, I simply clicked the “Video” tab from my user login area at youTube.  

You just imagine my shock when an ad like this was seen next to a video of my kids, or next to a baptism service of a friend of mine!  

That’s what I’ve seen in the last two weeks.  This is only one of several intoxicating ads I’ve seen. 

I can overlook a lot, but it’s stretching the limits of reasonable taste in my opinion.  As I said, the straw has just dropped for me.  Don’t mean to cramp anyone else’s style.

I can no longer  send the youTube video link itself to friends and family for them to share with others.

Yes, I could embed it in my blog (therefore eliminating their ads), but I don’t always want to send my blog with it.  I just want to share a video. 

I can no longer share any ministry video ideas with praise team members.  

I can no loner email links this to male family members in good conscience.  To be honest, I don’t even want to send it to female friends.

It’s poor taste for home computing.   I’m sick of these visual “lures” to poor thinking.

As if that isn’t enough: tonight on this screen shown, a guy is also exposing himself (fortunately, the resolution is so low you’ll probably not be too offended).  

Further, the video title above that lewdness is ”Get the F*** Out”.

There are ways you can tag a video post inappropriate.  And, we know live video has it’s down side.  But, my point is:  there are NOT ways to tag an advertisement as inappropriate.  We need to try to voice our preferences so that those of us who WANT to use youTube and only see our subscriptions or whatever can do so without being bombarded with the visual land mines.