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We’ve returned to the days of traveling medicine shows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_show YouTube is just
by jrmg 3y ago
We’ve returned to the days of traveling medicine shows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_show
YouTube is just full of very obviously fraudulent tech and medical/health ads, especially if you’ve switched off ad personalization. Was it this bad on cable TV in the past? Isn’t the FTC meant to be actively policing things like this?
- dragonwriter 3y ago> Isn’t the FTC meant to be actively policing things like this? No, generally the FTC is not designed, equipped, or funded for actively policing advertisements. Its consumer protection action is almost entirely complaint-based/reactive, not active. If you want active policing of advertisement by the FTC, you need to lobby Congress to vastly expand the FTC’s role and funding.