A relative who is old and less sharp than they used to be lost a few K off of these deepfake scam ads and crypto.
These ads are a tax on the old and low IQ.
YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads
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Re: YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
You have just a few big advertisers, but millons of scammers. Scammers can outspend big advertisers.
That’s a good question, does someone know what the percentage of big advertiser revenue to little advertiser revenue is with google services? Big advertiser beeing a top company like Coca Cola.
Does big Cola advertise on youtube? I haven't seen their ads at all (but since I don't drink soda maybe their profiles worked and coke isn't wasting adds on me?). Most of the big advertising plays elsewhere don't seem to be on youtube.
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#43I wonder about the legality of the ads that say to go to a website to sign up for government money.
I remember seeing some ads that looked really scammy about getting free medical equipment from Medicare on OTA television for years.
Years later, it turned out I was right.
If you called those folks they'd patch you through to a dishonest doctor who would write you a prescription for something like a back brace, even if you didn't need it. If you did need some kind of medical equipment later you might find you couldn't get it paid for because you already got the benefit.
I wonder if ubiquitous exposure to that kind of crap has political implications.
That is, you see a scam on TV several times a day that is clearly a scam but the people who run the TV station don't see it is a scam, bureaucrats don't see it is a scam, politicians don't see a scam. Politicians seem out so out of it that they launch their campaign with something that sounds just like a spam phone call.
OTA stations in most dayparts in Syracuse almost exclusively run ads for things you don't pay for with your own money: personal injury lawyers, prescription drugs, and things you can get with government benefits. You do see an ad for a car dealer from time to time because if nobody bought cars you couldn't get hit by a car to call William Matar.
I wonder if watching that crap turns people into Republicans.
Re: YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads
#44They're all like that. A whole back I reported an obvious real estate scam using Wayne Gretzky and some Blue Jays player (I'm in Canada). The reply was it didn't break any policy. When ads are the primary source of revenue, there's zero incentive to police the platform
>The reply was it didn't break any policy.
What is the policy, as long as you pay and don't do anything outright offensive, it's all fair game?
Re: YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads
#45Ironically Twitter/X, for all its recent criticism, comes out ahead on this stuff: at least there they get community notes saying it’s a scam fairly quickly
You cannot be serious. It is a daily meme that Twitter ads are all scams now because all of the legitimate advertisers are leaving. That's why it is an interesting, news-worthy event when a community note is attached to an ad.
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#46As it turns out there is a whole category in YouTubes ad system for Get-Rich-Quick schemes, as detailed out in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkhGJUTW3ag&t=1031s (timestamped at the relevant time).
Just today I saw my elderly father click on a YouTube ad link for a crypto scam copying Swedish televisions web layout he was reading it and I saw it at the corner of my eye. He has adblock installed, he disabled it because of the terms of service popup by YouTube. What is he supposed to do, create a google account and get premium instead? How about having safe ads so he doesn't have to figure out YouTube premium?
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#47looks like Youtube doesnt comply with some of its duties in the EU
https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-...
Re: YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads
#48I routinely see ads for fake medical treatments that they refuse to take these down when I report them despite the fact that the ads obviously violate Google's policies. So many of the ads on YouTube are for things that are obviously sketchy that when I see a new product I'm not familiar with for the first time in YouTube ad I just assume it is a scam. It's crazy because YouTube has probably more information about th…
> They have a ton of high-intent purchasing signal for reputable products, and instead they are showing me ads for trash.
This shouldn't be surprising. Ad placement is based on who pays to be placed in front of certain audiences. It doesn't matter if you're really into hi-fi amplifiers if no hi-fi company placed ads for that audience segment or if the hi-fi companies were outspent by boner pill salesmen.
Google is not optimizing for relevance but for revenue.
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#49Really frustrating as folks can advertise that crap but, regulated cannabis is blocked. Heck, we can't even mention our product/protocols on these $BigCo sites or they'll kick us off forever! Trying to publish in the AppStore along side all that scam-ware -- nope, sorry can't have that deadly cannabis around here.
Re: YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads
#50Every passing day I lean closer to the position that advertisement contracts should not be enforceable.