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Ive recently been seeing quite a few of these scam bitcoin giveaway adverts on youtube where you send them bitcoin(s) and they say you will receive 2x/3x the amount back, why does youtube allow these scam adverts as youtube adverts should obviously have to go through some sort of clearing process before they are released?
They all use a variety of levels of third party services which supply adverts and supposedly some of these keep letting scam ads through the net. I sometimes get fake Martin Lewis scam ads on The Guardian website, who you would imagine would be slightly more conscientious than google.
Rubbish though innit, imagine if they allowed these kind of adverts on traditional media! But for some reason they get away with it because the internet.
I keep seeing those god awful ads which have subtitles trying to sell you something created by someone who was kicked out of said industry for being too smart or letting you know of this industry's best kept secret... god I hate those ads
trying to sell you something created by someone who was kicked out of said industry for being too smart
Not one of these guys, by any chance?
I expect it's the same reason that we get them on here occasionally, it's not that the host site condones or allows them but rather they're delivered via a third party advertising network and thus very tricky to police. YouTube won't be paid for "an advert," they'll be paid for tens of thousands of different ones. Isolating a rogue ad isn't just like finding a needle in a haystack, it's finding a needle in a needle factory.
That sounds like a very convenient excuse for a third party ad network to trot out ie: not my fault guv - its tricky to police.
If that is the case then the ad network is not fit for use and should be held liable.
Trouble is that people don't like paying for websites and advertising spend as a whole is in the toilet so if websites want to survive they are having to get progressively less and less picky about what adverts the appear on them.
People don't like paying for stuff, this is the result. I have a similar intense dislike of all the blatant clickbait scam nonsense that I have to wade through all the time but if I'm not paying to use that website.... serves me right really.
it’s finding a needle in a needle factory.
But that's really easy!
A specific needle, smartarse. (-:
If that is the case then the ad network is not fit for use and should be held liable.
Because of course we 100% eradicated email-borne spam years ago.
I take your point and you're right of course, but what's the solution, employ someone to watch ten thousand adverts before agreeing to use a given stream? It's never going to be perfect, what it really needs is a 'report advert' button on each one to allow users to flag up the ones that slip through.
And here we go again 🙁
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