• melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Facebook and youtube would crumble completely without ads. That’s where the real money is.

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      2 days ago

      I accidentally saw a youtube ad today. It was a fake product with ai video and voice over. Complete scam. It was several minutes unskippable so i assume that’s expensive. They must be hoping to scam a lot of people. I had no idea it had gotten so bad.

      • Kite@sh.itjust.works
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        2 days ago

        The majority of the YouTube ads I get are for dick pills. I’m a 50 year old woman who watches critical role, videos on curly hair and chunky blanket knitting. Their algorithm sucks.

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        In the last couple weeks it’s constant Mormon ads lol, the church put a cute girl on YouTube hawking their fairy tale book and are blitzing the male demo