Elias Mårtenson on Nostr: Google is making almost all its money from ads right? So you'd assume that whatever ...
Google is making almost all its money from ads right?
So you'd assume that whatever else they may fail with, at least they got the ads business down, yes?
I never watch videos directly on Youtube because the video ads are too painful, but I do browse the recommended feed sometimes. Since I have as much ad targeting disabled I get the location-targeted bargain-bin ads in the feed, and they're often quite funny to see in their stupidity.
But there is one neverending feed of ads that is a pure scam. It's a make money quick scam that advertises itself with a picture of people in line outside of bank branches (taken during covid when they restricted how many people could be inside a public location at a time). Sometimes they also slap a logo from a legit news organisation on top of it as well.
I've entertained myself by reporting this scam to see how many variations I can see, and it never ends. The scammer uses a large number of sockpuppet accounts as well, so clearly they've been banned in the past.
You'd think their magin ai systems would be able to flag theee scams, but cleaely not. Apparently they can't even get ads right.
I've attached some screenshots from today's haul. I think I've reported about 50 today alone.
I'd love to hear from someone with inside knowledge how something like this can fly under the radar.
So you'd assume that whatever else they may fail with, at least they got the ads business down, yes?
I never watch videos directly on Youtube because the video ads are too painful, but I do browse the recommended feed sometimes. Since I have as much ad targeting disabled I get the location-targeted bargain-bin ads in the feed, and they're often quite funny to see in their stupidity.
But there is one neverending feed of ads that is a pure scam. It's a make money quick scam that advertises itself with a picture of people in line outside of bank branches (taken during covid when they restricted how many people could be inside a public location at a time). Sometimes they also slap a logo from a legit news organisation on top of it as well.
I've entertained myself by reporting this scam to see how many variations I can see, and it never ends. The scammer uses a large number of sockpuppet accounts as well, so clearly they've been banned in the past.
You'd think their magin ai systems would be able to flag theee scams, but cleaely not. Apparently they can't even get ads right.
I've attached some screenshots from today's haul. I think I've reported about 50 today alone.
I'd love to hear from someone with inside knowledge how something like this can fly under the radar.