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Is that against TOS? Was it scam?

• showmexyz 1y ago
  He defrauded investers out of $120M.
  • MangoToupe 1y ago
    I couldn't find any record of a conviction with a cursory google
    • showmexyz 1y ago
      https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/litigation-releases/lr-26413 https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/litigation-releas... They are not convicted yet.
• modeless 1y ago
  It's not against YouTube's ToS to run pre-roll ads of any length, of course. But I think he was just selling get-rich-quick schemes or something. At the time YouTube ads were more rare and generally short, like 15 second TV commercials, so it was weird to see long-form content as ads. He absolutely saturated the site with this ad for a while to the point that it became a meme. I'm guessing a significant percentage of YouTube's user base at the time was served that ad at least once.
  • SpicyUme 1y ago
    Yeah I still occasionally get really long ads that must be just to see who watches all (most?) of them.