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Ask HN: Have you encountered this “please don’t let me die” ads on YouTube?
How does YouTube approve this scam?
- mr90210 4y agoYes I have. I didn’t know it was a scam. I just ignore it.
- reiichiroh 4y agoI found some info in a Reddit post by googling the name: https://reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/saydui/i_went_down_a_children_cancer_scam_rabbit_hole/ https://reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/saydui/i_went_down_a_chi...
- maerF0x0 4y agoI've been skeptical of similar potential fraud going on at stoplights in my town recently Basically someone holding a sign with a picture of a child w/ a sad story and a cash app QR code. The thing that triggered my suspicions was seeing multiple similar type campaigns w/ just a different photo and disease. Seemed too coincidental to me.
- dimitar 4y agoYeah, in several languages at that: Russian, Hebrew and Ukrainian.
- reiichiroh 4y agoI don’t know this is allowed by Google unless it’s not human reviewed at all.
- is_true 4y agoMost of my family gets a "you have a virus" ad on their smartphones while using YT. I guess the guys at Google are having problems paying their bills and are allowing these kind of ads.