Agreed, I've seen so much of this on YouTube lately. I've become so disillusioned with product review videos lately because prominent channels clearly have an i

Agreed, I've seen so much of this on YouTube lately. I've become so disillusioned with product review videos lately because prominent channels clearly have an interest in maintaining good relationships with vendors in order to keep getting pre-release versions of products to review, and there's zero transparency around this entire system. Do product reviewers always have to send the demo product back once the video is made, or can the vendor gift it to them after the fact (especially if the video is positive, wink wink)? Up-and-coming channels often shout out the companies they're reviewing directly (i.e. "Purple didn't sponsor this mattress review but feel free to send me stuff in the future!"). How can you believe that someone is providing an honest, balanced review when they say stuff like that? I learned early in my career working at an advertising startup that advertising's biggest goal is to no longer be noticed or separated from the rest of the content pool, to be completely indiscernible, unrecognizable from objective content.. Getting rid of tracking would solve some major privacy problems, but YouTube is becoming one giant ad fest created by people who are pretending that they aren't making ads, and I don't see tracking removal solving that problem.