edit: you to your
An ad about what? Is this real? Creators of true crime documentaries can’t say “rape” or “murder” for fear of being demonetized but they show ads like this?
I have had rapey-AI ads in youtube before. I even took a screenshot.
-::: spoiler Rapey AI ad
:::Took this screenshot of an ad directly from the YouTube app:
Tap for spoiler
That doesn’t seem like a photo that would break any rules. It’s suggestive, but nothing worse than that.
That isn’t the point, though. The absurdity here is that content creators have to censor their language to such an absurd degree so as not to offend advertisers, but then the platform itself can just turn around and post borderline soft-core porn. It’s just more hypocrisy from those “Think of the Children!” pearl-clutchers.
You seem to believe that the platform is intentionally posting soft-core porn.
You seem to be trying to stir up some sort of argument. It’s an obvious example of double standards. I don’t know what else to tell you.
How so? Do advertisers not get suspended or banned if they post soft-core porn?
Yup
some ads are borderline hentai games
I’ve trained the algorithm that I don’t tolerate ads.
I rarely see ads on YouTube. I use FreeTube and yt-dlp pretty much exclusively for my YouTube viewing. I only see ads when I watch YouTube on my TV, and even then, only rarely. As soon as it shows me an ad, I close out of YouTube. Not skip ad, not go back, I close YouTube. I switch to audiobooks instead.
The algorithm wants to increase watch time, the only way it can do that is to not show me ads, so that’s what it does. It’s surprising how well it works.
**It’s learning… **
But for real, after you explained what’s going on it makes perfect sense, I’m just suprised that “amount of ads delivered” is a watch time metric that the algo “optimizes” for.
does pihole work for the TV?
Not as far as I know, there’s no way to set custom DNS that I’ve found.
My favorite but of specific criticism was how they demonetized firearm-related channels because advertisers didn’t want to be associated with guns, but they didn’t stop running ads on those channels.
You joke but YouTube unironically shows ads like that. And more often than not, they’re AI generated copyright theft, too.
These are just a few that I’ve seen in the last few months. It’s an epidemic.
spoiler
Wtf‽
It wasn’t a joke, it’s just funny commentary on how twisted the advertising logic is
Did they remove channel blocking recently? Something very undesirable appeared on my recommendations this week, and when I went to the channel to block it it the button wasn’t there, and worse still me going to the channel auto played more of its shit. So now YouTube think I want more.
I think so. They’re also starting to shift the “my subscriptions” button.
current day youtube reminds me of current day nintendo switch eshop. (its also full of adult anime games - largely with neural-network-generated images)
tell you who that product is for.
Baki vibes
