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YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I still see fake download button ads distributed via Google's own ad infrastructure to this day. I even reported a few that were taken down.

For all the AI prowess Google likes to brag about, why can't they make a simple "does this look like a download button?" detector? The scams are not that clever, most of them follow one of a small number of specific patterns.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Malicious ad money is ad money

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It's not that they can't, its that they won't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What's worse is when corporations try to be funny put a fake download button and the entire ad is like "Wow can't wait to click this skip button" and they don't realize that sometimes youtube randomly makes those unskippable so it's just awkward dead air for 30 seconds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why would they? They would lose money if they did that