| I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | denise-lala | 2/23/12 6:56 PM | This ad is unbelievably invasive, irritating and intolerable. Each time I go to play a video this ad blares in and interrupts what I am listening to/watching. How on earth is this being allowed? It repeats over and over and over on everything I watch |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | PeggyK | 2/23/12 7:01 PM | That sounds like the kind of ad generated by a toolbar or extension in your browser, not YouTube. Have you tried using a different browser or computer? If so, do you see the same ads? |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | Zach Atk | 2/23/12 7:02 PM | I've never gotten that ad on YouTube. |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | anmoose | 2/23/12 7:02 PM | The "Congratulations You Won" is not coming from YouTube. It's an add-on or some other thing you've gotten yourself into. YouTube's ads are annoying enough, but they're not invasive like this. You've added a toolbar, some widget, or a browser add-on |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | andy16666 | 2/25/12 1:36 PM | I don't know about others, but I'm getting the same ad in Chrome on Linux. No toolbar installed. |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | andy16666 | 2/25/12 1:39 PM | http://zenverse.net/the-congratulations-you-won-sound/ |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | anmoose | 2/25/12 2:37 PM | Zenverse.net has absolutely nothing to do with YouTube. All ads on YouTube are served from YouTube and Google servers. |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | seyghal | 2/25/12 3:53 PM | I am using Chrome OS, I have no toolbars installed (as I can't) and in when watching videos in YouTube (usually once the video has finished and I may have the tab still open) I hear over and over... "Congratulations, you won!".Ridiculous, stupid, ann |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | gbcali | 2/25/12 4:08 PM | @ denise-lala / andy16666 / seyghal – Maybe you're watching YouTube videos embedded on another site? I've never encountered a "Congratulations You Won" type ad on YouTube.com |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | seyghal | 2/25/12 4:13 PM | @gbcali lol - A nice thought but thoroughly misguided. No, it was most definitely on YouTube site! A quick Google search and you will find that many, many people have had this problem on YouTube.I've just sent some Feedback whilst on the YouTube page |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | PeggyK | 2/25/12 4:30 PM | But it's almost certainly not YouTube running those ads. I know I've never seen one on YouTube either. And the Google ads all have an "Ads by Google" or "Ad Choices" or "Advertisement" or blue arrow link at the top or bottom you can click to report |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | seyghal | 2/25/12 4:57 PM | Ok, following PeggyK's comment I went back to a YouTube page which I knew was showing me naughty adverts and then one by one disabled all my extensions to see if it had an effect and....The 'Cloud Save' extension for Chrome had been adding extra ann |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | PeggyK | 2/25/12 9:24 PM | Thanks for reporting back. Now I know to ask people to check if they are running "Cloud Save". |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | KillianM | 2/26/12 9:38 AM | The "SmoothScroll" extension has similar issues, which are also resolved by unticking the "marketing" option. |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | andy16666 | 2/26/12 6:31 PM | Good call KillianM! It was the SmoothScroll Extension. |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | pepe2144 | 2/27/12 12:02 PM | For me, it was the "Mail Checker Plus for Google Mail" extension. I don't remember ticking off "Marketing", yet it was on.It seems that annoying sound is gone now. Thanks! |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | denise-lala | 2/27/12 11:49 PM | Thank you all so much for this info. PeggyK, great info, thank you. I'm using Firefox on a Mac and have not installed Chrome. I can't seem to find anything in my browser preferences that is about marketing. Perhaps I'll just have to search harder, si |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | PeggyK | 2/28/12 11:34 AM | denise-lala: have you checked your Firefox Add-ons? Go to Tools -> Add-ons and that will bring up the list of add-ons in your browser. Check each of those. |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | killfreely | 3/3/12 7:01 AM | The add-on causing this problem for me was called Premiumplay Codec apparently by an author called webpicks. I was ready to stop using youtube also until I came on to this page and started disabling addons to find out which one was ruining my youtube |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | TheHioman | 3/6/12 7:52 PM | I had the add-on bflix installed by an adware on my computer and I had this annoying ad on youtube too. I removed the add-on and everyfile related to this program in my computer and the stupid ad stop. Under the blue flashing ad you can see ad not f |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | paulgr | 3/6/12 8:24 PM | Free software = Adware. That's why they make it, they have to get paid some way. |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | ebbixx | 3/9/12 5:55 AM | Forgive me for jumping in. I've done a quick search for both "cloud save" and cloudsave on the Chrome forums and only found one match, and that one was in Italian. This seems most likely to be a problem with an extension or other add on, though. Coul |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | mag2111 | 5/27/12 3:17 PM | same for "Send using Gmail" extension and a few others i've seen; you must check/tick the "i don't want to support you; (remove a few ads)" option |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | anmoose | 5/28/12 12:19 PM | Bumping to bring current. |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | Tarns | 6/9/12 8:44 AM | It may have been a month since anyone has talked about this but I'm experiencing these problems in several pages. - youtube - icefilms - http://www1.watchop.com When I check my extensions I have very few. - AVG Do Not Track - AVG Safe Search - DivX Plus Web |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | ebbixx | 6/11/12 1:19 AM | |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | sirtokesalot | 6/11/12 5:53 AM | |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | sickofregister4evythingtoviewit | 8/3/12 9:11 PM | |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | RichySamui | 8/6/12 5:47 PM | |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | fr4nkz4pping | 8/16/12 7:03 PM | |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | Nick gman | 1/20/13 12:11 PM | |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | Nicole Geenen | 2/2/13 8:53 AM | |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | OmarSaysHi | 3/6/13 12:26 PM | |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | cnc0308 | 3/9/13 9:53 PM | |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | Aistė Mickevičiūtė | 3/25/13 8:48 AM | |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | PeggyK | 3/28/13 10:41 PM | |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | Laria Kolansky | 5/8/13 10:07 AM | |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | fiona ffield | 5/16/13 3:20 AM | |
| Re: I've cut my Youtube viewing by about 70%. Why? Because of the loud invasive ad "Congratulations You Won". MAKE IT STOP. | PeggyK | 5/16/13 11:39 AM |