Who watches ads on YouTube?
Comment on Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Kirk@startrek.website 4 weeks ago
If you open YouTube shorts in a new account or an account that doesn’t store history the ads are nearly exclusively AI slop scams. This is not just a Meta issue.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
Kirk@startrek.website 4 weeks ago
I get what you’re saying is a joke, but most people don’t know about Newpipe or whatever the current alternative app is, and soon most people won’t be able to sideload anyway when Google makes it’s changes to Android.
It’s not good that Google/Meta are exposing these people to scammed for the crime of simply for not knowing how to sideload.
Quexotic@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
I guess I’m going to have to root my phone soon. Maybe move to graphene. I was not looking forward to that.
Smoke@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
Base 44. Base 44, over and over and over again on my account with the history turned off.
Kirk@startrek.website 4 weeks ago
I see “Elon Musk” invitating me to secret whatsapp groups where he is going to give me bitcoin