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Re: YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads

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Post by wredue »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #229
wredue wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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I dislike ads. But when I do see them, I'd prefer they were relevant to my interests. I might order an ADF4377 evaluation board, but I'm not going to be buying any feminine hygiene products or timeshares in Phoenix. So as far as I'm concerned, they can spy all they want. That horse left the stable years ago anyway. Just don't waste my time with ads on YouTube, and we won't have any beef. So far Google has held up the…

Nice moving the goalposts! I wasn’t talking about the types of ads you see, I was specifically addressing the absolute bullshit claim that “if you pay, you are no longer the product”, which is 100% demonstrably bullshit.

Secondly, paying for premium doesn’t in any capacity stop you from seeing scam ads in the sharing networks Google powers.

Given that other platforms are already showing ads for their paid tiers, it is not a matter of “if”, but “when” for YouTube.

Re: YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads

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Post by phatskat »

ForkMeOnTinder wrote: post #71
passwordoops wrote: post #5

They'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

It's even worse: the incentive is to police the creators, not the advertisers. Youtube will bend over backwards for advertisers whose "brand safety" team doesn't want their product to appear next to a swear word, and demonetize/strike/etc those creators. But the ad content itself isn't policed nearly as relentlessly.

A channel I follow does ad reads in the middle of the show, and as such had to say “Say-bay-Day” when advertising a CBD product because YT would demonetize the video if they just pronounced it as one would pronounce “See-Bee-Dee”.

It’s wild that they couldn’t advertise a sponsor but YT allows scam ads to roll before their videos

Re: YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads

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Post by kazinator »

rollcat wrote: post #226
ForkMeOnTinder wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's even worse: the incentive is to police the creators, not the advertisers. Youtube will bend over backwards for advertisers whose "brand safety" team doesn't want their product to appear next to a swear word, and demonetize/strike/etc those creators. But the ad content itself isn't policed nearly as relentlessly.

True, and it's so ironic when the situation reverses... Of the ads that recently slipped through my adblockers, one was a xenophobic piece of Hungarian propaganda against illegal immigrants. It was shown in the middle of a Minecraft video (a game without binary gender); that was made by a disabled person; to people living in a city where ~50% of the population was born elsewhere. Google does have all of that context,…

Youtube puts ads for investment funds in the middle of videos for three-year-olds.

Re: YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads

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Post by CamperBob2 »

wredue wrote: post #271
CamperBob2 wrote: post #229

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dislike ads. But when I do see them, I'd prefer they were relevant to my interests. I might order an ADF4377 evaluation board, but I'm not going to be buying any feminine hygiene products or timeshares in Phoenix. So as far as I'm concerned, they can spy all they want. That horse left the stable years ago anyway. Just don't waste my time with ads on YouTube, and we won't have any beef. So far Google has held up the…

Nice moving the goalposts! I wasn’t talking about the types of ads you see, I was specifically addressing the absolute bullshit claim that “if you pay, you are no longer the product”, which is 100% demonstrably bullshit. Secondly, paying for premium doesn’t in any capacity stop you from seeing scam ads in the sharing networks Google powers. Given that other platforms are already showing ads for their paid tiers, it i…

Nice moving the goalposts! ...

I'll type slowly this time to make it easier to understand: I don't care about ads on other sites, I only care about avoiding them on YouTube, and YouTube Premium currently works fine for that.

It's OK if they "spy" on me to keep the other ads relevant, but that's not the subject of this thread.

Re: YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads

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Post by kspacewalk2 »

>deep fake Elon Musk saying that he has built an AI powered trading bot that will allow you to make 1 million dollars in 6 months risk free and to be honest i can't tell that it is deep fake, it looks very real.

I recall seeing this and noting how, while I'm fairly certain it's a deep fake, I wouldn't be that shocked if it wasn't. As far as reputations go, Elon Musk really does seem like he'll say just about anything these days, and what he won't say he'll re-tweet.

Re: YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads

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Post by ChrisArchitect »

https://reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/18gjiqy/youtube_doesnt...

So much whining from YouTube addicts. Never seen any ad like this. And I block ads manually all the time for other more 'regular' things. Maybe if you weren't always watching videos about Elon and Crypto you wouldn't see these thrown in the mix. You're the target!

Re: YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads

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Post by abracadaniel »

JanneVee wrote: post #46

As 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…

Even with adblock, I've had hijacked channels end up as the top search result. Most recently with the last SpaceX starship launch. Trying to find the livestream, I just searched SpaceX and the top hits were all fake channels with lots of subscribers, hosting the actual livestream, but with a big QR code to a crypto scam overlaid. It happens every time, with the same things, and has been reported many times. There's no way they don't know about it.

Re: YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads

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Post by throwawayffffas »

JanneVee wrote: post #46

As 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?

Go watch something else, somewhere else, another site, or you know tv or something.

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