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Become a Redditor and join one of thousands of communities. x 376 377 378 [RD9V0kSm] YouTube doesn't want to take down scam adsDrama (self.youtube) submitted 11 hours ago by Jakob_G Hey Reddit, i recently noticed that there are way more scam ads on YouTube. And i am not talking about those ads of people selling you get rich quick courses, which i get to see way too often as well, i am talking about deep fake Elon Musk saying that he has built an AI powered trading bot that will allow you to make 1 million dollars in 6 months risk free and to be honest i can't tell that it is deep fake, it looks very real. Here is the link to the ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=wWGb0BLYBOs https://preview.redd.it/z7zagtomju5c1.png?width=1942&format=png&auto= webp&s=5ed808fbf9800784a6bb1698fac2317d8e5f2a85 or here another one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE77YkmsbDc&t= 75s I am from Austria so i get to see the German version of these scams as well. Like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Iyuyx5thgI or this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMRY5dxnZ4E The first one i have seen so many times it gets ridiculous. Its about a famous German figure supposedly being sued by the central bank because he found an infinite money glitch. And because these scam ads are getting so annoying i started reporting them every time i see one, because i do understand that there are probably millions of advertisers on YouTube and sometimes these scams don't get detected right away. So i also reported that Fake Elon Musk Ad, but the next day i get shown the exact same ad again, then i open my email inbox finding a YouTube email about my report stating "We decided not to take this ad down. We found that the ad doesn't go against Google's policies". The same goes for all four ads listed above, all reported, all apparently not against policy. So one of these two is true: 1 - Elon Musk has actually found a way to make everyone rich with ai. 2 - YouTube simply doesn't care about people getting scammed as long as they make money. As much as i would like the first one to be true, these YouTube Ads are not cheap to run, with one of them running for more than a month with 364K views. So the fact that the scammers are able to afford these ads means that people keep falling for these scams, and YouTube doesn't seem to care at all. And i don't want to use an adblocker because i want the people i watch to get paid for their work, but i don't want them to be paid with the money from the victims of these scams. Is this a regional problem in Austria or do you see these scams too? * 99 comments * share * save * hide * report all 99 comments sorted by: best (suggested) topnewcontroversialoldrandomq&alive (beta) [ ] Want to add to the discussion? Post a comment! Create an account [-]King_Bongo_Bong 30 points31 points32 points 9 hours ago (1 child) I've observed the same. Reporting seems to do nothing. I suspect the revenue is too good to pass up so they don't police the ads run closely. * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]Life_Ad9520 10 points11 points12 points 6 hours ago (0 children) Pretty much, ppl are even defending the ads that have minors in a suggestive but non sexual manner * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]jonathan_levitz_1999 21 points22 points23 points 6 hours ago* (8 children) YouTube will do anything for money, even if it's illegal. In other words, YouTube keeps getting bribed a lot from malvertising and this needs to stop. Google needs to be heavily fined for their negligence to the users. * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]Citron222 1 point2 points3 points 4 hours ago (4 children) But who is gonna fine google? Half of the internet is basically at googles mercy * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]jonathan_levitz_1999 3 points4 points5 points 4 hours ago* (0 children) Hopefully the US government and the EU government. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]cowmowtv 1 point2 points3 points 4 hours ago (0 children) Either a government (I hope the EU, Swiss govt or Japanese govt as they'll be the most likely to win a case) or a organization. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]Organic_Football_243 [score hidden] 16 minutes ago (0 children) "who is going to fine Google" --- the SEC and/or FCC will, since Google is headquartered in the United States. Apparently you are clueless. Google gets fined all the time, by america, EU, and other regulators. "half of the internet is at google's Mercy" --- Whatever that is supported to mean. Google is just a search engine. It does not excluively host domains, nor does it exclusively control every server connected to the internet and even if it did, "the internet" does not and has never fined anyone, or any entity. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]jonathan_levitz_1999 0 points1 point2 points 2 hours ago (1 child) Since Google is a large company, they should be fined like 75% of their entire revenue. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]Organic_Football_243 [score hidden] 12 minutes ago (0 children) So small company should get smaller fines for scamming people? Not how that works, kid. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]navrajchohan 57 points58 points59 points 8 hours ago (4 children) Wow, that's pretty good deep fake. Elon should be able to sue for stealing his personhood. * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]mnp 4 points5 points6 points 2 hours ago (0 children) Fake youtube accounts are probably a few dollars on the market. There's a whole industry to generate fake clicks and accounts manually. As fast as fake accounts get created, it's probably hard to ban them. OP's point is valid though - youtube DOESN'T ban them even after many reports. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]Vegetable_Doubt3996 4 points5 points6 points 4 hours ago (0 children) The guy really doesn't have a positive public image to protect lmao * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]taisui 1 point2 points3 points 3 hours ago (0 children) Remember that one day where a lot of tech figureheads' twitter account got hijacked at once and telling everyone to send bitcoin to this account and they'll return double? Yea....back in the day your keyword ads with "sony" will get blocked because you are not sony even if you are retailing sony products.... * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]Organic_Football_243 [score hidden] 28 minutes ago (0 children) Wtf you going on about? How is he going to sue an unknown scammer outside of American jurisdiction? If only we could have sued Osama bin laden after 9/11 then we wouldn't have had to wait ten years to get justice, huh, goofball? * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]_N3ph 12 points13 points14 points 7 hours ago (2 children) I had the same experience, I kept seeing these Elon Musk Deepfaked videos of him giving some key note speeches for some crypto platform. They all pointed to different URLs as well, probably the same company behind the ads OP posted about. I reported them all. I kept getting emails back that they didn't see anything wrong with the advertisement. I appealed a few times since it was an obvious deep fake. Same response, "If you don't like them you can block the advertiser" Now I don't get emails back when I report an ad so ironically I think I have been blocked from reporting ads * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]cowmowtv 0 points1 point2 points 3 hours ago (0 children) Search for a scam where you could do a chargeback (e.g. dropshipping scam), "fall for it", report the ad, hope YouTube doesn't do anything and file a online police report against the scammers and also YouTube for supporting those scammers if your state allows to do so. At least in accordance to German law, if you could prove to YouTube an advertiser has set up a scam ad and YouTube won't take action after a report, the person who was responsible for handling the report could get criminal charges, too. YouTube makes money with advertisements, therefore they also have responsibilities. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]Standard-Rule63 0 points1 point2 points 2 hours ago (0 children) Thing is blocking does nothing. That's what I have a problem with. I block these ads all the time and will get two more from the same company with a different deepfake AI voice plugging the same scam bs. This is why I use adblocker. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]PurpleEsskay 11 points12 points13 points 6 hours ago (0 children) and they wonder why we use adblock. * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]FlatTransportation64 6 points7 points8 points 7 hours ago (1 child) And i don't want to use an adblocker because i want the people i watch to get paid for their work https://influencermarketinghub.com/how-much-do-youtubers-make/ According to this site your singular view is worth an astounding $0.018. This means sending them a a single dollar on Patreon is enough to pay for the next 55 videos they're going to upload to their channel. * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]beej71 2 points3 points4 points 4 hours ago (0 children) This. Pay Google nothing. Use patreon or any other means to give the creators money. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]vascop_ 5 points6 points7 points 8 hours ago (0 children) They put click farms in developing countries doing this. The human reviews google does are not what you think they are. You imagine someone at Google receiving an email, opening the ad, watching it, researching for 2 minutes and answering. What actually happens is someone gets paid a pittance to have 20 tabs open and click "reject" in as many as they can in the least amount of time to meet their quotas and feed their family since Google also likes to do these in developing countries (geo is not the problem, salary is) rather than pay proper salaries. Until they are forced to charge enough money for their services to actually provide human support where it's needed, nothing will change. They'll keep banning adwords accounts, letting fraudulent ads out, and a number of other things that need review. * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]huynhkhaphi8181 7 points8 points9 points 7 hours ago (1 child) Once, there was a huge campaign on Vietnamese youtube with lots of scam advertising on osteoarthritis medicine. Even though Vietnamese government submited a request for deletion, Google doesn't care. https://i.ibb.co/5YGLfFH/image.png * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]cowmowtv 0 points1 point2 points 3 hours ago (0 children) In Germany, charges could've been pushed onto YouTube staff responsible for handling such requests for knowingly supporting scammers. Not sure about Vietnam or the US though. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]huhndog 4 points5 points6 points 6 hours ago (0 children) I hope they get sued for not dealing with active scams on their platform * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]mine49er 3 points4 points5 points 7 hours ago (1 child) Report them to whatever advertising standards regulatory body exists in your country. They wouldn't allow this on broadcast TV or print media or billboards. Google will start caring only when they're facing fines. Unbelievably shitty company these days. * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]Substantial_House788 2 points3 points4 points 7 hours ago (0 children) Google will start caring only when they're facing fines exceeding potential earnings. Fixed. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]hva32 2 points3 points4 points 8 hours ago (0 children) YouTube has a category for advertisers labelled "Get Rich Quick". They openly facilitate malvertising. https://youtu.be/jkhGJUTW3ag?si=85TNm0TazcrUZ4_A&t=1046 * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]Spudgem 2 points3 points4 points 6 hours ago (1 child) I keep seeing ads for anti-trans stuff. Nothing else. Just anti trans stuff. Thanks Youtube. * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]No-Act386 1 point2 points3 points 10 hours ago (2 children) Welp for your case I say take a screen shot of the scam ad or the link and talk with team YT on twitter I did it before and it help drastically * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]condoulo 3 points4 points5 points 8 hours ago (1 child) I don't think this will work in this case, OP's Xcrement post would get deleted because Elons feewings got hurt. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]No-Act386 0 points1 point2 points 8 hours ago (0 children) So how it worked for me? * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]snotreallyme 1 point2 points3 points 7 hours ago (0 children) Your reports go to an AI that may forward to a contractor in India who was barely trained and spends 10 seconds at most per reported video and if they don't see it breaks YouTube's rules they move on. The videos you linked to don't blatantly look like scams. This is YouTube. * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]Sion_forgeblast 1 point2 points3 points 7 hours ago (0 children) well yah, Yutube runs on a "rules for you, but not for me" setup..... a number of youtubers have called them out on it via reporting the ad, and when they got the e-mail that the ad doesn't break any rules they put clips of the ads on their videos...... then those videos got them into trouble and demonetized.... the best example of this is Saberspark * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]mito88 1 point2 points3 points 5 hours ago (1 child) https://support.google.com/google-ads/thread/245336218/ what-is-happening-with-google-ads * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]cowmowtv 1 point2 points3 points 3 hours ago (0 children) Whoops, looks like they removed it. I wonder why... * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]C3H8_Memes 1 point2 points3 points 4 hours ago (0 children) Did anyone else get a fleshlight ad? * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]cowmowtv 1 point2 points3 points 4 hours ago (0 children) I reported like 20 of such ads and other obvious scam ads, in 95% of cases, YouTube did nothing. There should be a law making YouTube liable in case someone falls for this and the specific scam ad which had been reported but not removed lead the victim to the scam. * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]UglyNotBastard-Pure 1 point2 points3 points 3 hours ago (0 children) Got a massive dose of gorgeous, twerking, black mamacita and OneBet sports Gambling in Youtube kids. Teach them while young. * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]Galliad93 1 point2 points3 points 3 hours ago (0 children) 1000 a day would be a 180,000 in half a year, not a million. * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]matttt_damon 1 point2 points3 points 2 hours ago (0 children) I reported a blatant scam ad pretending to be Mr Beast twice months ago, it was still up a week ago. * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]thecementmixer 1 point2 points3 points 2 hours ago (0 children) I'm sorry but those fakes are very easy to spot, these are very poorly done. I agree YouTube should take them down, especially for something that pretends to be real and not labeled as parody/satire/ AI, but if you can't tell the difference from these videos, it's on you. * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]TotesMessenger 1 point2 points3 points 8 hours ago* (0 children) I'm a bot, bleep, bloop. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit: * [/r/hackernews] YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads * [/r/hypeurls] YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads ^If you follow any of the above links, please respect the rules of reddit and don't vote in the other threads. ^(Info ^/ ^Contact) * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]TheEdward39 -3 points-2 points-1 points 9 hours ago (19 children) They can't really do anything about it. It's not difficult to create accounts and post ads, and it's nearly impossible to monitor and control everything that closely. One thing that could potentially be useful in mitigating this may be raising the pricing of ads, but that would also eliminate a ton of small businesses from being able to advertise on YT/Google so... idk. * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]dazchad 10 points11 points12 points 8 hours ago (7 children) Of course they can. Don't let their narrative convince you otherwise. They earn money to display those ads, so they can pay somebody to curate what is shown. They don't because they can get away with it until some major PR hits them on the face. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]TheEdward39 0 points1 point2 points 8 hours ago (6 children) I'm sure that also plays a role but... You can set as low a daily limit as something like a single dollar. That's why I'm saying it's overly cheap. I'm almost 100% certain that paying someone to manually check ads wouldn't be worth it for ads with a daily budget that is less than the daily wage of a full-time employee in proportion to the display rate of a specific campaign. They can use an automated system to check it for obvious TOS-breaks, like pornography (although we've seen that a low opacity overlay can slip through unnoticed) or gore; but an algorithm will likely not be able to spot a scam. But yeah, I generally agree that ads should cost at least marginally more money, and should be controlled much more strictly. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]Straight-Clothes484 5 points6 points7 points 7 hours ago (0 children) 1. The viability of Google's business is not our problem 2. The company that just did a massive PR day about how they have the best AI can't future out how to automate those? * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]Close 2 points3 points4 points 7 hours ago* (0 children) It doesn't take a day to check these ads - Say for a 30 second ad we could take 1 minute for someone to watch the video and click a green tick (good) or a red tick (bad). For any red tick (bad) videos we could then send it to a more senior person to review, annotate with the reason code (i.e. the policy it violated), and then block the originating source. If you pay someone $6 an hour to review offshore, that's 10 cents per ad. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]DM_Sledge 2 points3 points4 points 5 hours ago (2 children) What you are saying is that they choose not to monitor these ads because "it would cost money". It would even be prohibitive for them to use the same software they use to demonetize creator videos. I don't run YouTube so I don't care if they think it costs too much. They have choices. These choices have consequences. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]TheEdward39 0 points1 point2 points 5 hours ago (1 child) I am almost 100% sure that is the main reason behind it. A surprising number of highly requested features are left out of stuff to save (relatively) ridiculously small amounts of money * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]DM_Sledge 0 points1 point2 points 4 hours ago (0 children) Not to save money, but because some executive decided they would save money. Its like the little stores that installed self checkouts, when they still need someone to stand near them, and only ever scheduled one person to run the self checkout in the first place. Someone high up decided this would save them money. Now people are being told to "increase SCO numbers" or be fired etc. The solution to this is that the cashier has to run over to the self checkout when people want to pay, and check them out using the SCO. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]DontQuoteMeOnTheNews 1 point2 points3 points 4 hours ago (0 children) You can set as low a daily limit as something like a single dollar. Right, except that Google chose those limits. If the minimum spend is actually too low to be worth paying someone to validate that ads aren't literally elon musk deepfakes, they always have the option of raising it. There's a difference between something being impossible, and something being less profitable. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]kdklv_ 3 points4 points5 points 9 hours ago (3 children) t to create accounts and post ads, and it's nearly impossible to monitor and control everything that closely. Well, they are quite adept at downright harassing small creators over minor issues, such as background music. I believe they are more than capable of manually checking the ads that are going to make them money in the same way they check if the content meets their standards. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]TheEdward39 0 points1 point2 points 8 hours ago (2 children) Afaik the contentID system is automatic, that's why it's so difficult to actually get a video unmuted if you do end up owning the rights to the music, because your appeal will likely not reach an actual human being for a long ass time. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]Goldenier 1 point2 points3 points 8 hours ago (1 child) They could "easily" do same thing, contentID for detecting celebrity faces an brand logos and making it require extra verification if some ads are using them. It's very likely they will end up doing something like that in the future, they just need few big companies threatening or suing them before they start to act. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]TheEdward39 0 points1 point2 points 8 hours ago (0 children) They could, yeah. It might actually be pretty useful too, since the bulk of these scams are now using deepfake celebrities and AI voices. And by eradicating these scams, it would be easier for small advertisers to get their stuff out too, which is also beneficial * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]kn4llfrosch 1 point2 points3 points 9 hours ago (1 child) I don't understand your argument. Are you saying it's impossible to check ads before running them? I disagree. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]Close 0 points1 point2 points 7 hours ago (0 children) Agreed. Manually approving ads is totally an option! Youtube just doesn't want to do it because they make money running scams. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]digitaltransmutation 1 point2 points3 points 6 hours ago (0 children) funny, my experience with Adsense is that if you do a minor oopsie they will block you as a person and also ban any future accounts that you make if they can possibly correlate your identity. They will not issue warnings or tell you what specifically you did wrong and there is nobody to talk to. But deepfake elon is unenforceable. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]Jakob_G[S] 2 points3 points4 points 9 hours ago (1 child) I get that, what i don't get is that they don't take them down even when i report them. Like why have a report button if you ignore my reports anyway. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]TheEdward39 1 point2 points3 points 9 hours ago (0 children) Fair enough. Their report system has always been pretty shit too, not unlike with Meta, when you report anything at all, chances are it won't ever reach a real human being. Other than that, even if they do remove it (like the Mr. Beast scam videos) they often just come back the next day on a brand new channel. I think it's inevitable that every social media platform will, in time, be full of shitty scam or scam-adjacent ads unfortunately. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]Hiimzap 0 points1 point2 points 6 hours ago (0 children) Bruh. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]psyyduck 0 points1 point2 points 4 hours ago (0 children) The rules are a little different for billion/trillion dollar companies, but most of us can't just sell something and check safety later. I can't just import some new chemical from Vietnam to add into my drinks and say it's too expensive to check long-term safety. Example: A lot of Kombucha makers went out of business in the early 2010s because their alcohol percentage was above 1.2% by volume and the govt cracked down on them. It was too expensive to pay the fines AND change their processes AND buy expensive new equipment for filtering out alcohol. They also couldn't sell anything until this was fixed. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]us1549 -1 points0 points1 point 5 hours ago (0 children) Why does it matter? If you are posting on this sub, there is a less than zero chance that you will watch, let alone click on any ad. The content of the ad should be irrelevant * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-][deleted] 10 hours ago* (1 child) [removed] [-]AutoModerator[M] 1 point2 points3 points 10 hours ago (0 children) Hi RickTheScienceMan, we would like to start off by noting that this sub isn't owned or run by YouTube. At this time, we do not allow posts from new uses (accounts created less than 7 days ago.) 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Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns. * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]autoagglomerante 0 points1 point2 points 7 hours ago (1 child) I wonder what would happen if Elon Musk himself were to bring up this issue with YouTube. * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]Very-very-sleepy 0 points1 point2 points 6 hours ago (0 children) this. would be better off tagging Elon Musk himself in all this. once he finds out. he going to go throw a tantrum and start threatening YouTube. lol. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-][deleted] 7 hours ago (1 child) [removed] [-]AutoModerator[M] -1 points0 points1 point 7 hours ago (0 children) Hi Straight_Fruit_4962, we would like to start off by noting that this sub isn't owned or run by YouTube. At this time, we do not allow posts from new uses (accounts created less than 7 days ago.) Please read our rules before posting again to ensure you don't break our rules, please come back after gaining a bit of post karma. I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns. * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]Grumpicake 0 points1 point2 points 6 hours ago (0 children) I have a feeling this kind of shit is going to land them back in the same hot water they had with Viacom. It's just sad to see that I hope YouTube loses this time, Google needs to be knocked down a peg. * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]CaptainTarantula 0 points1 point2 points 5 hours ago (1 child) It seems like the the YouTube execs are cashing the platform out. Any way to squeeze a few more dollars. * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]Snoo54041 0 points1 point2 points 4 hours ago (0 children) the revenue stream is strong * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]Stoutyeoman 0 points1 point2 points 5 hours ago (0 children) We know. * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]Misubi_Bluth 0 points1 point2 points 5 hours ago* (0 children) I remember back in the faraway year of 2008, the banner ads were really egregious. Lots of flash games that gave you viruses and awful hoax stuff like the human dog hybrid thing. It wasn't until 2010-2012 when the ads started becoming actually bearable. Car ads, movie trailers (that varied in quality but were still trailers nonetheless), music, etc. It wasn't perfect. There were a few hiccups, like the fact that you got a lot of pro religious ads on antitheist channels. But it was a system that worked. Now, it feels like Google is taking us back to the era of shitty ads, except worse. Edit: I would also like to point out that the spam bots have gone absolutely wild. Last night, I saw a whole ass thread of bots speaking to each other about a passive income scam...on a video about the lady who has to flee Texas to get an abortion on a nonviable pregnancy. I understand these fucks wanna make money, but how do they think letting a bot run there will make them look good?! * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]awfulWinner 0 points1 point2 points 5 hours ago (0 children) I've been seeing droves of deep fakes with Elon and my Canadian Prime minister as well. I've reported them every time but I feel like I'm just shouting into the void. Google has the tech to stop this at the source, they don't bother, because they don't care. Revenue is more important than preventing the stupid and naive from spending their life savings on a scam. I think I'm going to try and report this to the my local CBC news outlets and see if I can get any traction. What's interesting tho is every time I check the advertisers info in the ad when I'm reporting it, it always comes up as : About this advertiser Advertiser has not yet verified their identity Advertiser Click Tech Limited (this varies) Location Hong Kong (this varies) So I'm curious... why is Google allowing non verified advertisers to show ads? Shouldn't this form of blind faith advertising either be illegal or open Google up to liability for not doing due diligence about who they allow to advertise? You'd never see these ads get the light of day on TV broadcasts... so what's the loophole here? * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]neytey 0 points1 point2 points 5 hours ago (0 children) Youtube is all about money these days, I am from austria myself and I saw this ad multiple times. Its just ridiculous how youtube doesn't give a fuck about the ads they display. * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]pidove123 0 points1 point2 points 4 hours ago (2 children) Can we bribe youtube not to air ads * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]fried_green_baloney 0 points1 point2 points 4 hours ago (1 child) You can get YouTube Premium which is ad free. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]pidove123 0 points1 point2 points 1 hour ago (0 children) What I mean is to advertise 1 second ads on youtube and pay the majority of money to air these ads the most. * permalink * embed * save * parent * report * reply [-]Mloxard_CZ 0 points1 point2 points 4 hours ago (0 children) It has been a huge topic on the Czech subreddit for a few months now The fake ads with Petr Pavel (our president) have been reported so many times and youtube just begin to say it doesn't break any rules... It's literally impersonating czech national energy group and asking you to invest hundreds of dollars * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]CherryShort2563 0 points1 point2 points 4 hours ago (0 children) I see a lot of prepper ads on Youtube. Its disgusting. * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]nessknown 0 points1 point2 points 3 hours ago (0 children) Actually seen more of the old spice a.i guy being in a scam ad which it's actually getting more frequent in my yt * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]sebaz6r 0 points1 point2 points 3 hours ago (0 children) I observe the same problem. Approximately 10-15% of the ads are scams. They feature Roger Federer or Swiss Federal Councillor Karin Keller-Sutter talking nonsense about quick money-making schemes (through poorly executed deepfakes). YouTube or Google doesn't seem to care. I can report the same ad many times, and yet, a few days later, it reappears. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38555440 * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]antidemn 0 points1 point2 points 3 hours ago (0 children) youtube probably won't stop paying the creators you watch if you use an adblocker, as long as youtube manages to not detect these. because if an ad doesn't get through youtube just kind of ignores it * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]Money_Masterpiece_50 0 points1 point2 points 3 hours ago (0 children) you can report ads or pay for premium * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]andimacg 0 points1 point2 points 3 hours ago (0 children) And this is why I will always block ads on your shitty site, YouTube. * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]TornadoEF5 0 points1 point2 points 2 hours ago (0 children) report bad adverts here https://support.google.com/ads/contact/vio\ _other\_aw\_policy?linkId=8607285&utm\_source=teamyoutube&utm\_medium =twitter&utm\_content=138848724&linkId=9265792 * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]iddqd-bfg 0 points1 point2 points 1 hour ago (0 children) Elon going in russian and hamas propaganda flow, so why he cant do some scam =) Billionaires mood =) * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]RedditMcNugget 0 points1 point2 points 1 hour ago (0 children) It's absolutely crazy, I'm starting to think the only reason YouTube runs these ads is because it's profitable to their business * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]Organic_Football_243 0 points1 point2 points 32 minutes ago (0 children) Also, "$6400 government subsidy card". Google has realized their destiny and full potential of an untrustworthy scumbag corporation. * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]Katana_sized_banana 0 points1 point2 points 30 minutes ago (0 children) They also don't care about bots or propaganda accounts. You could say they don't care at all, which means they don't comply to German laws. (keyword Network Enforcement Act, aka NetzDG from 2017) And EU misinformation laws from 2022. * permalink * embed * save * report * reply [-]TheStrangeOne45UnBarney Wiki [score hidden] 7 minutes ago (0 children) I can smell an incoming lawsuit * permalink * embed * save * report * reply * about * blog * about * advertising * careers * help * site rules * Reddit help center * reddiquette * mod guidelines * contact us * apps & tools * Reddit for iPhone * Reddit for Android * mobile website * <3 * reddit premium Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy. (c) 2023 reddit inc. All rights reserved. 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