I refuse to believe people think those are good deepfakes. The lipsync is so so so bad. So bad.
YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads
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Re: YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads
#82Twitter actually has some of the best ad oversight, almost entirely by accident too. Community Notes (formerly Birdwatch) lets users flag tweets that are misleading. Since Ads on Twitter are just normal tweets, they can be fact checked. Twitter's average ad quality has plummeted recently, but most of the scam ads I see have a massive user-added disclaimer outlining how it's a scam. I wonder how this affects the click…
I've been thinking about this for a while.
I've seen many of these community notes - how exactly do these work ?
Is a community note borne out of "most upvoted" replies to a particular tweet ? If so, how does it go from a simple upvoted reply, to a "community note" ?
Re: YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads
#83During the PS5 reveal, Youtube was literally recommending multiple scam live feeds offering free PS5 or Bitcoin. Here is an example.
https://decrypt.co/32102/scam-sony-playstation-5-reveal-even...
The problem isn't so much that these scams exist, but that youtube was actively recommending them to users, adding insult to injury, youtube was quicly taking down feeds from gamers commenting on the official reveal...
Re: YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads
#84They'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
between the scam ads and their war on adblock it really seems like Google is scraping for every penny they can
Well, that’s the definition of a private company, isn’t it?
It would be naive to think a company could behave otherwise in the long term.
Re: YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads
#85Facebook and YouTube are the worst. They should be trialed in class action suite as collaborators in all the scams they advertise on their platforms. I’m speaking of paid ads only.
Re: YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads
#86If I were one of YouTube's big ad customers who doesn't like my ads on videos spreading misinformation why would I be OK with the ad before or after mine being misinformation?
Re: YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads
#87They'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
between the scam ads and their war on adblock it really seems like Google is scraping for every penny they can
Yep, it's a high interest rate phenomenon. Investors want to see profitability.
But it's also a problem unique to trillion dollar companies: finding growth. If you have a money printer of $280B per year, how do you find growth that moves the needle?
For new product development, you'd need to launch a product that brings in revenue of say $20B, otherwise it's just not that interesting.
Imagine how hard it is to launch a new product like that? If you'd have a billion users (which is absurdly hard for a new product), you'd then need to monetize them for $20 per year per user. In a saturated competitive environment where users don't want to pay.
Hence, the more common strategy is to turn some dials on the existing money printer. Just increase ads.
That's why FB's Metaverse bet wasn't crazy at all. You make $100B+, social media is stagnating, and you need a huge new revenue stream. They don't really exist. You have to go crazy on big bets.
Re: YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads
#88You're expecting too much from poorly trained contractors in India who review these reports (if a human reviews them at all).
Re: YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads
#89As 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 disabl…
> What is he supposed to do, create a google account and get premium instead?
I just put my parents on my family plan, you should consider it, it's a very low price for the peace of mind, plus they love not having ads
Re: YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads
#90I reported an ad once. It was crazy difficult. So now I don't bother.
If a reporting system is this difficult, one has to make the assumption that it's on purpose.