YouTube advertising has lost it's mind and morality

[Astro14]

I don’t think YouTube ever had a mind or morality in the first place…

 

[zzyzzx]

I tried using brave browser when a video plays I get a full white screen with just audio playback.

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Uninstall and reinstall Brave?
I literally do nothing special to get Brave browser to block ads.

 

[DCDG]

Uninstall and reinstall Brave?
I literally do nothing special to get Brave browser to block ads.

What I noticed a lot of apps in the chrome os store don't function properly on Chromebooks but I can try reinstalling the brave app.

 

[johnnydc]

So many obvious scam products, like that amazing "engineer designed" air conditioning unit showing ice cold COILS when the product is actually just a fan.
It really reflects poorly on Google (who owns YT) that they clearly don't care what false claims are made on their platform as long as there's money to be made.

They also allow so much animal cruelty on their platform. what they do not allow is dissent.
Could just be me but I think Google is a very evil corporation.

I would never under any circumstances click on a YT link to order any item whatsoever.
YMMV. Maybe you really love Google?

I guess it's really all big corporations today? Look at Ford, GM, Toyota, Honda, GE, food manufacturers and on and on and on

Google as most huge companies have little morals, as long as they are making money.

 

[TimeFlies]

Have not seen a youtube commercial in years. Run firefox and UBlock origin. Not the light version and you will bypass all the nonsense. Brave works too.

This is what I do, no ads.
I personally really enjoy YouTube, but only subscribe to channels that I enjoy, such as Murphy diesel, Matt's offroad, shoe on head, Christine grace smith, All terrain recovery, Sarahntuned, Trent Palmer, etc.

 

[Rmay635703]

What I'm a little concerned with is the amount of AI content advertisements that feature people being violent and abusive to each other. AI has clearly learned the we humans like to see this crap.

I had to report foreign language low grade pron that kept showing up as an add.
Oddly YouTube seems to crap on your account when you report bs.

I’ve been getting a lot of full AI content (not adds) playing if I allow the player to just automatically forward to the next video too many times.
Lots of low quality voice talks over still image nonsense contaminating YouTube

 

[Zee09]

YT silenced me because of my views. I'm the only one that sees my comments and I caught that right away.
I never used foul language but I see it every day, no threats or attacks but just speaking my mind...
There are 1000s like me..

You can't even interact with them for a resolution.

 

[Rmay635703]

YT silenced me because of my views. I'm the only one that sees my comments and I caught that right away.
I never used foul language but I see it every day, no threats or attacks but just speaking my mind...
There are 1000s like me..

You can't even interact with them for a resolution.

You’re not alone, starting this year an immense number of individuals have found themselves sandboxed, even rather large monetized accounts causing financial impacts.

lots of anonymous complaints, dirty tricks and fake copyright trolls.

And it isn’t just YouTube/Facebook, lots of smaller/obsolete web services are randomly blocking people’s accounts “for security” while providing no mechanism to contact a person to determine if there is a solution.

For alphabet there are specific channels and specific individuals that if you ask nicely, they may help you behind the scenes, sucks that everything is cloak and dagger
And that anyone can ruin your day without reason or evidence.

The grumblings I’ve seen say this is in preparation of the so called “kids act” as it’s called in the USA, worldwide lots of .govs are have an equivalent of it , nothing like making a google search require an enhanced drivers license and biometrics for adults to view the weather.

The remaining small websites in existence will likely go away once this goes into effect as they cannot comply.

 

[mshu7]

I've noticed the uptick in ads on shows that I started watching, but have been reluctant to give them money so as to avoid the ads. I haven't thought much about their morality, they have to pay the bills somehow, but some of the content, particularly the shorts, is just low quality and starting to drive me away. Bought a couple of ebooks last week and have found that scratching the itch.

Use Brave Browser for watching YT (not the YT app). Brave has settings to specifically block ads, built in. Also, settings to block “Shorts” and “Distracting Content”. I use it on my Mac & iPhone.

 

[DCDG]

watching youtube videos using duckduckgo browser no ads.

will have to try on the chromebook this is working on my dekstop.

 

[dbias]

Google searches are often suspect in that they often sell the top few search results to third party retailers and mislead consumers.
For example let’s say someone has Xfinity internet and TV and has a service issue. If they quickly google xfinity for the number to call the top search result may be xfinitydeals.com not xfinity.com. Never click on one unless the url looks right or says official site.
They have told a family member that they will send someone out to fix the issue and in reality they signed them up for internet and tv with another company.

 

[KrisZ]

The premise of OP is that Google had morality in the first place, otherwise how would they lose it? I would like to hear why he thought that was the case.

 

[Finklejag]

YT silenced me because of my views. I'm the only one that sees my comments and I caught that right away.
I never used foul language but I see it every day, no threats or attacks but just speaking my mind...
There are 1000s like me..

You can't even interact with them for a resolution.

Yep, shadow banned. Youtube has no problem with all the bots and AI these days. I’m getting tired of all the women creators dressing half naked for views. So you decide to do some wood working, and decide wearing a bikini is the best cloths for the job?

 

[DCDG]

Yep, shadow banned. Youtube has no problem with all the bots and AI these days. I’m getting tired of all the women creators dressing half naked for views. So you decide to do some wood working, and decide wearing a bikini is the best cloths for the job?

it's not the wood working people are after algorithm knows what clicks makes the most $$$

 

[Pew]

it's not the wood working people are after algorithm knows what clicks makes the most $$$

It's a different kind of wood working

 

[Hohn]

So many obvious scam products, like that amazing "engineer designed" air conditioning unit showing ice cold COILS when the product is actually just a fan.
It really reflects poorly on Google (who owns YT) that they clearly don't care what false claims are made on their platform as long as there's money to be made.

They also allow so much animal cruelty on their platform. what they do not allow is dissent.
Could just be me but I think Google is a very evil corporation.

I would never under any circumstances click on a YT link to order any item whatsoever.
YMMV. Maybe you really love Google?

I guess it's really all big corporations today? Look at Ford, GM, Toyota, Honda, GE, food manufacturers and on and on and on

Don't be evil.

 

[zzyzzx]

YT silenced me because of my views. I'm the only one that sees my comments and I caught that right away.
I never used foul language but I see it every day, no threats or attacks but just speaking my mind...
There are 1000s like me..

You can't even interact with them for a resolution.

That's when you get a new account.