Sad but true. The youtube app is just the same now.
As you scroll down one in four or five items on the list is a “sponsored video”, i.e. an advert. That’s on top of the actual adverts there are described as such. They range from get rich quick scams to pseudo-religious “manifesting success” bollocks to mail order Ukrainian brides. That’s to say nothing of the recent ads I’ve seen espousing hydrogen peroxide boner pills (yes, really), using language that would raise eyebrows at OFCOM, much less the ASA.
You can report them all you want; Google long ago dropped “Do No Evil” in favour of “Do Fuck All”. I might as well write to my MP for all the good it will do. In fact I think I will, because as winter sets in I just know there will be more of those ads for Chinese death trap plug-in heaters and instructions on how you can heat a room with a tea light and two plant pots (I’m serious, those exist) and sooner or later this shite will end up with someone burning their fucking house down.
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jonbob loves you, Tue 22 Oct 2024, 14:42,
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