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The vast majority of youtube content I encounter is thinly veiled commercials of one form or another. It's so bad that occasionally I'll ask myself if the over
by newnewpdro 8y ago
The vast majority of youtube content I encounter is thinly veiled commercials of one form or another.
It's so bad that occasionally I'll ask myself if the overt and relatively easily defeated ads exist in part to obfuscate the more subtle advertising most content has become rife with.
- on_and_off 8y agoDo youtubers have to disclose how much each company is paying them ? I stumbled on a video yesterday about how Tesla was so far ahead of its competition .. and I could not help to wonder how much this youtuber has been paid to say that.
- craftyguy 8y agoWhy would they have to disclose that? They are not elected politicians or have any other status that requires them to publicly disclose their employers any more than you or I have.
- pessimizer 8y agoYou and I must publicly disclose our employers. Advertising is regulated.
- craftyguy 8y agoSource?
- graeme 8y agoYou're supposed to disclose whether you are sponsored. Not sure how well the FTC enforces it.
- colmvp 8y agoI'd be surprised if the FTC were cracking down on YouTubers or bloggers at a wide scale.
- zapzupnz 8y agoI watched a video recently reviewing various versions of Monopoly video games through the years. We got two or three reviews of past games, all rated with either disdain or apathy; they were followed up by a sun-comes-out-its-butt glowing review of the most recent title by Ubisoft that seems to have been rated as somewhere between mediocre and terrible by other outlets. Even if the review was absolutely genuine, and this was a reviewer espousing love for an otherwise universally-ignored game, I couldn't help but feel I was just watching an advertisement and promptly closed it. I don't blame anybody for this, but this is seriously ruining my ability to enjoy YouTube content.