Dear Google,

You seem to be watching everything I do anyway, so I figure this isn't too much to ask.

When you put ads on Youtube, you must know I rarely pay attention to them. I definitely avoid them when I can, and unfortunately for your sponsors who pay for that ad space, sticking ads all over a website doesn't actually affect my buying choices positively, it just makes websites unappealing, tacky, and less desirable to use. (Regrettably for the television industry, it also doesn't make me more interested in getting off my computer and watching television programming. I would sooner not watch TV at all instead of just buying DVDs or watching programs streaming on my computer).

But here's the thing. I'm willing to tolerate these ads. I'm even occasionally amused by the annoying video ads that sometimes precede the non-commercial, 100% original, user-made videos on I watch Youtube.

What I'm not willing to tolerate are political ads geared to my region of residence. I have a pretty low opinion of many of the prominent politicians in my area (who are generally well known because they're assholes who disrespect the basic human rights of women, persons of indeterminate gender, homosexuals (and persons of other non-standard sexual orientations), and people who don't happen to share their pasty white skin color), and I don't want to be subjected to their ads, especially when they're defamatory ads about candidates I admire and hope to see elected into office.

I will not vote for the candidates that are putting up slanderous ads against their competition. I think that's bullying, and I also think it's beneath us as human beings to be swayed by lies and conjecture.

I will probably not buy the laundry soap advertised in sexist, of-course-you-stay-at-home, you're-a-woman ads, but I actually have the occasional use for laundry soap, so you never know.

Please. Show me the fucking laundry soap ads. I won't complain about them. I promise.