it’s an informational page about sponsors, not the actual sponsored link
they can’t even make a dark pattern right
Comment on Youtube's web UX team is a joke.
OpenStars@discuss.online 2 months ago
But… you clicked the sponsor link, thereby increasing their profits, right!? Sounds to me like the system is working as intended then:-P.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
cmac@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not a link to a sponsor. It’s a YouTube info page about what it means for a video to have the “Contains sponsorship” tag.
OpenStars@discuss.online 2 months ago
That… sounds far dumber than I gave even them credit for! :-|
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
“Broken as designed.”