Youtube now has scam ads that look like videos!

[Fat Cat11997]

Scam ads have now put text in their titles to look like real videos, but luckily i realized it was an ad before clicking on it. I had to click on the 3 dots to make sure that it was a google center thingy:  

[podkall]

ew that's ugly, also it's interesting YouTube is still allowing these ads,

 

which are both misleading scam and identity theft.

 

 

Who in their right mind would allow a scam AD that uses the face of the most popular content creator on the platform?

 

 

These scam ads date back several months, I've seen this type of ad definitely farther than half year ago.....

 

•  also there's a chance when you report it the original scammer already took down the ad or that it has been taken down
• but then you'll see same/similar ad within the next week

[Mark Kaine]

this is what everyones going to be exposed to when google does its v3 thingie? goodnight ~

[StarsMars]

Yep. Just had a user last week who searched "amazon" on google. Top  result was a google ad pretending to be amazon that led to scareware.

Fuck google, run Firefox and uBlock origin.

[CoveWolf]

This has been happening for at least 6 months for me on google and YouTube. Absolutely disgusting, it seems that YouTubes auto AI isn’t smart enough to detect when influencers or other individuals like Mr. Beast are put in front. Hope they will find out a solution soon, but it’s been a while with no acknowledgement from Google.

[BoomerDutch]

17 hours ago, CoveWolf said:

This has been happening for at least 6 months for me on google and YouTube. Absolutely disgusting, it seems that YouTubes auto AI isn’t smart enough to detect when influencers or other individuals like Mr. Beast are put in front. Hope they will find out a solution soon, but it’s been a while with no acknowledgement from Google.

That's why i fear the ads on anything even if it's legit. But then again if i get third party and if they aren't maintained well enough then its also not solution.

 

You ever looked at YouTube ads and x mark?

 

For example you join stream you click X to close live chat but ad comes up and you clicked on ad while you intended to close chat.

 

As phone at the bottom is massive ad block if you intent to go back but misclicked yeah you're clicking on ad.

 

It did happen today and now I'm no longer in mood in watching YouTube because of that.

 

Arg i hate this so much its like I'm literally between opensource and company programs and most of the time i can't trust both.

 

It just makes it harder for me.

And slowly making me insane.

[demonix00]

You must be new here...

 

This isn't new, they've been letting these scam "adverts" float around for ages.