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I read somewhere they are among their top 10 advertisers. So this is not a good look for YouTube. Hope someone from Google chimes in because this is a PR disas

I read somewhere they are among their top 10 advertisers. So this is not a good look for YouTube. Hope someone from Google chimes in because this is a PR disaster in the making

usr1106 5y ago
I don't think that I have ever seen a single ad for Grammarly on Youtube. Well, Google proably knows that I don't live in an English speaking country. I do see Grammarly ads if I search things like "practice or practise" because I write English every work day. Well, I use Firefox account containers and auto cookie delete everywhere. So Youtube knows little about me writing English. Many people outside the English-speaking world will never see those adds. Your search bubble is not others. Despite that, even in the search bubbles containing Grammarly I doubt closing an account with 3 videos will do any significant PR damage to anyone. So what where the videos about? Grammarly storing everything the user writes??? Selling it to others???
- inglor_cz 5y ago
  "Many people outside the English-speaking world will never see those adds. Your search bubble is not others." I am a Czech and I see them all the damn time. Maybe because I consume a lot of English content.
  - usr1106 5y ago
    I generally don't use Youtube a lot and because I never log in they have no profile for me. So they show me random household ads based on location. Very poorly targeted, 90% completely uninteresting stuff. They even don't know my mother tongue :)
    - whatch 5y ago
      > because I never log in they have no profile for me Oh I wish this was true
    - slantyyz 5y ago
      What I find funny is that YouTube knows who I am and where I live (English-speaking Canada), but every now and then I go through a short time period (a few days) where most of the ads are in French (for Canada).
x86_64Ubuntu 5y ago
I think the importance of this is being grossly overstated.
iqanq 5y ago
What do you mean a PR disaster, something people get upset about on Twitter for 3 days and then forget?
- pixl97 5y ago
  Unless Google deletes the articles about the incident from its index (and hey, it's possible), then the internet doesn't forget. Instead it just slowly builds personal and political opposition against them. Or are you saying we just should be quite and let them do what they want?
  - iqanq 5y ago
    How many "PR disasters" have Google had? If you google "google scandal", how many pop up? Have people stopped using Google because of those scandals? What makes this particular scandal stand up amongst those?

I read somewhere they are among their top 10 advertisers. So this is not a good look for YouTube. Hope someone from Google chimes in because this is a PR disaster in the making

usr1106 5y ago

I don't think that I have ever seen a single ad for Grammarly on Youtube. Well, Google proably knows that I don't live in an English speaking country. I do see Grammarly ads if I search things like "practice or practise" because I write English every work day. Well, I use Firefox account containers and auto cookie delete everywhere. So Youtube knows little about me writing English. Many people outside the English-speaking world will never see those adds. Your search bubble is not others. Despite that, even in the search bubbles containing Grammarly I doubt closing an account with 3 videos will do any significant PR damage to anyone. So what where the videos about? Grammarly storing everything the user writes??? Selling it to others???

inglor_cz 5y ago
"Many people outside the English-speaking world will never see those adds. Your search bubble is not others." I am a Czech and I see them all the damn time. Maybe because I consume a lot of English content.
- usr1106 5y ago
  I generally don't use Youtube a lot and because I never log in they have no profile for me. So they show me random household ads based on location. Very poorly targeted, 90% completely uninteresting stuff. They even don't know my mother tongue :)
  - whatch 5y ago
    > because I never log in they have no profile for me Oh I wish this was true
  - slantyyz 5y ago
    What I find funny is that YouTube knows who I am and where I live (English-speaking Canada), but every now and then I go through a short time period (a few days) where most of the ads are in French (for Canada).

x86_64Ubuntu 5y ago

I think the importance of this is being grossly overstated.

iqanq 5y ago

What do you mean a PR disaster, something people get upset about on Twitter for 3 days and then forget?

pixl97 5y ago
Unless Google deletes the articles about the incident from its index (and hey, it's possible), then the internet doesn't forget. Instead it just slowly builds personal and political opposition against them. Or are you saying we just should be quite and let them do what they want?
- iqanq 5y ago
  How many "PR disasters" have Google had? If you google "google scandal", how many pop up? Have people stopped using Google because of those scandals? What makes this particular scandal stand up amongst those?