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I routinely see ads for scams on YouTube and report them and never hear back. Stuff like "a 19 year old invented this that saves you a hundred bucks on your po
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago
I routinely see ads for scams on YouTube and report them and never hear back.
Stuff like "a 19 year old invented this that saves you a hundred bucks on your power bill but Big electricity is suppressing it"
Just the most bullshit claims over stock footage, things I saw debunked on Snopes 20 years ago as a literal child.
It's disappointing
- kjkjadksj 2y agoIts not just youtube. I unsubscribed from LA times after their email newsletter had one too many "Doctors don't want you to know about this!!!!" esque ads. Pure poison marketing. I can't believe people greenlight this crap to run on their platform. Maybe they already fired who greenlights ads.
- bediger4000 2y agoFor me Washington Post and Daily Beast newsletters were filled with ads for "Grunt Style" brand qanon clothing, sometimes all 5 or 6 of the ads in a given newsletter email. I ended up DNS blackholing some FQDNs, but I suspect that Grunt Style was targeting ads to "own libs".
- nradov 2y agoThere's a sucker born every minute. I suppose that when Googlers look at their huge paychecks it's easy to rationalize building tools that help scammers steal from suckers. From a legal standpoint they have plausible deniability but most YouTube advertising is just so slimy, like even more unethical than TV infomercials.
- ben_w 2y ago> Stuff like "a 19 year old invented this that saves you a hundred bucks on your power bill but Big electricity is suppressing it" I had some of the booklets on that theme when I was a kid: https://archive.org/details/george-trinkaus-tesla-the-lost-inventions_202103/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/george-trinkaus-tesla-the-lost-i... Given how cheap PV is these days, I'm surprised that particular scam is still a thing.