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[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 21 points 1 day ago

I want them to crumble.

[-] Buckshot@programming.dev 7 points 1 day 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 7 points 1 day 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.

[-] Kellenved@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

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

[-] dummyboymc23@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Too bad for YouTube, there's a really nifty way around ads

this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2026
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