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There are lots and lots of scan ads on Youtube too. There are ads pretending to be Mr Beast offering to give you $1,000 for just clicking on the video (a lie, o
by jjbinx007 4y ago
There are lots and lots of scan ads on Youtube too. There are ads pretending to be Mr Beast offering to give you $1,000 for just clicking on the video (a lie, obviously - you're just directed to infinite scummy affiliate survey links, many of which are just as deceptive).
Or there's ads for GTA 6 which link you to god-knows what.
I used to report these ads almost daily but the truth is Google/Youtube/Alphabet just doesn't care as long as it gets the money. Only regulation can stop this sort of crap.
- sshine 4y agoI don’t experience that I can block these ads. And there are so many of them. (I watch YouTube on my iPhone, and I don’t block the ads at network level.) So many “I earn this much working from home, you only need to buy this course to start earning.” multi-level marketing schemes. There is a lot of schemes built on crypto, investment, beauty products, content creation. Basically anything that you can do from home and the promoter can claim they’re succeeding with where it’s not entirely clear if it comes from the business idea being sound, or they’re just making money selling courses or products for resale. E.g. if you make an average profit on investment, but your capital comes from suckers who clicked a YouTube ad, you could rightfully claim that you’re making a lot on investing in absolute numbers. But your cash cow is still luring in suckers.