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And people think Facebook is bad. Remember DoubleClick, the ad company that did all sorts of scammy and slimy and hacky advertising? Yeah, Google bought them y
by crankylinuxuser 9y ago
And people think Facebook is bad.
Remember DoubleClick, the ad company that did all sorts of scammy and slimy and hacky advertising? Yeah, Google bought them years ago. Now mix in "AI" -- which really means crap arbitrary computer decisions that you have no recourse on.
Yeah, "Do Evil, and dont care". That's their slogan now.
- HenryBemis 9y agoDoubleClick is not the devil. Ok it kinda is. I have been blocking them on my hosts file [1], Noscript, and Adblock+ for years. But I don't feel that YouTube content is relevant to this discussion (evil-ness of Advertisers). I don't think that YouTube has signed a Contract with (majority) of content creators that they will get paid $XX for YY-hours of viewing (or for ad display). That would have been breach of contract (kinda like when you bank changes your interest rate or your employer your salary without agreement). I don't really like what Google has become, but it's their rules, and it's a take it or leave it. Do creators have the guts to abandon massively Google for a couple of months? Similar to going for a strike. Can they make 500 million people not look at cat-videos for 2 months? [1]: someonewhocares.org/hosts
- whywhywhywhy 9y ago>Can they make 500 million people not look at cat-videos for 2 months? We can pretend YouTube is just a twee place to watch cat videos like it was 12 years ago or we can actually realise that the network has evolved over time and people actually go there now to watch personalities not just funny home videos. I feel YouTube creators might be surprised with just how much power they wield if they did move to another platform en masse.