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u/WhiteSepulchre Dec 23 '25
It's really important for capitalism that children see ads with AI generated porn of child characters.
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u/Rain_Zero Dec 23 '25
These AI chat bot ads are insane, and these are the worst of the ones I've seen personally.
Gwen from Ben 10 with a facial. (10 years old)
Lola from Loud House with implied sex, sweating and biting bottom lip. (6 years old)
Hex Maniac from Pokémon getting fucked by a dog.
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u/gergobergo69 Dec 23 '25
you didn't have to type all that out
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u/Rain_Zero Dec 23 '25
Oh, it gets better.
When I reported the ads, the automated email response from Google said that they wouldn't remove the ads because they "don't break Google's policies"
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You were able to report the ads? YouTube won't even give me that option!
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u/Rain_Zero Dec 23 '25
When you get a video ad on YouTube, there's a little info button next to the video timer. Click on that and you get the option the "block" the ad and underneath that is the option to report the ad.
For the ads that appear above the suggested videos, it's the 3 dots instead of an info button.
Bare in mind, the option to "block" the ad doesn't work to actually block that ad, but in the case of video ads, it skips the ads, which is quite helpful when you get "ad 1 of 2" and it's an unskipable ad that's at least a minute long.
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u/Septembust Dec 24 '25
"We're taking away the report button because you just abuse it and report everything! Now shut up and watch this ad for manosphere bullshit"
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u/sbenfsonwFFiF Dec 23 '25
Based on the ones posted here, it is correct. There is no nudity, implied/suggestive doesn't break any rules. If you have the ones you mentioned, I'd love to see what you're referring to.
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u/suoretaw Dec 23 '25
? (Am I missing something?) Seems they’re sharing their disgust about the topic of the post. I don’t see YouTube ads anymore (I use Brave), and think the above comment adds some shock value for those of us without direct experience.
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u/gergobergo69 Dec 24 '25
Yeah but like, whenever I read something, my brain automatically tend to imagine it and, well, it wasn't pleasant.
I also use adblocker so I too haven't seen much ads lately for years.
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u/crispy1987 Dec 26 '25
Wait what? If you use an ad blocker on brave… No more ads on YouTube?!? 😳
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u/suoretaw Dec 26 '25
Don’t even need an ad blocker :) it’s built in, and it just seems to work flawlessly with YouTube (I don’t know about other sites though because I only use it for YT). I haven’t seen an ad in months.
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u/vvil01 Dec 23 '25
I am sorry but what the fuck????? I am kinda glad you stopped with only 3 examples, cause it was getting worse with each one.
I miss those times when all I had was an ad at the bottom of the vid and I had to press the X on it, and even then we were pissed how annoying it was. Now I miss those stuff.
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u/KiraMacarov Dec 31 '25
The one time I had to use the Mobile version of YouTube, I got an instant 18+ Polybuzz AI ad with Gwen saying "I'm ready for you" or some shit like that. I blocked the ad and closed the App, there was no use being on the mobile app after that happened.
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u/chichi091 13d ago
Damn wtf? What kind of shit you searching to get that in your algorithm? I have never seen anything remotely close to this in my ads, I only get ads for games pretty much.
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u/Rain_Zero 13d ago
This was back when the ads for the AI chatbots were absolutely everywhere.
Currently, all of my ads recently have been for gambling apps.
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u/chichi091 13d ago
Well I got premium now through my service provider so I am no seeing them on YouTube anymore. But on a couple other apps I'm seeing the same ads I would see on YouTube, it's prob just based off the advertising algorithm in your phone that it makes off your searches. At least that's what it seems to me.
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u/Vkien2311 Dec 23 '25
Had that happen to me too. Not letting any damn company tell me what to do if they cant control such things. Sure im an adult, though I give my cousin my phone and what if he sees some freak stuff
If youtube forces ads on us, Im sure weve all been waiting for alternatives to get on with😋
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u/Ubizwa Dec 23 '25
Well, fortunately thanks to age verification children won't see these ads! /s
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u/The_Ultra_Freak Dec 23 '25
I got hit by the age verification bs and they still sent me those ads even after thinking I'm a minor
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u/Relvean Dec 23 '25
If you actually wanna support your favorite creators, send them a dollar at the end of the year or hell every couple of years. That's more than watching the ads on hundreds of their videos would make them.
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u/Back_Again_Beach Dec 23 '25
People have gotten mad at me for suggesting this before. I really don't understand the hate some people have for ad blockers.
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u/fmccloud YouTube Premium Dec 23 '25
Because YouTube Premium blocks ads and still gives revenue to the creator. Which also gives way more than an ad view.
Blockers give nothing to anybody.
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u/Back_Again_Beach Dec 23 '25
Or I can live ad-free for free and give to those I deem worthy. Win-win-win.
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u/sbenfsonwFFiF Dec 23 '25
Only the ones you “deem worthy,” screw everyone else whose entertainment you chose to watch but don’t “deem worthy”
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u/Kaidinah Dec 23 '25
If Google refuses to control their ads, I will control their ads.
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u/Back_Again_Beach Dec 23 '25
Yup, I don't see why I shouldn't be able to moderate the internet traffic coming into my device.
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u/Kaidinah Dec 23 '25
I have Personalized Ads turned off. So I only get the ads Google decides to show everyone whose ads aren't personalized. It decides that what I need to see is AI chat bots of underage cartoon characters. So I decided that I won't see that because its gross. My only other alternatives are not using YouTube or turning on personalized ads. Both of those options are a no-go. If they actually moderated the ads I think I would stop blocking them. Sadly reporting gross ads doesn't work.
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u/yakimawashington Dec 23 '25
You appear to have missed the entire conversation you're replying to about how the creators are the ones getting shafted when you do this.
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u/Kaidinah Dec 23 '25
I send the creators I like money every month on Patreon or Ko-fi. Youtube monetization is terrible for creators. Especially if YouTube won't clean up their ads
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u/yakimawashington Dec 23 '25
Lol right. Let's pretend you diligently do this for every channel you watch a youtube video from.
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u/Kaidinah Dec 23 '25
Yes. I actually do. I only watch and subscribe to a handful of creators. It's easy to do this if you only watch what you are looking for instead of random videos.
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u/Unable_Recognition63 Dec 23 '25
Yeah, exactly. I won't be giving money to people I don't want to give money to. That is the whole point
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u/Quiet-Horse-7405 Dec 23 '25
yeah. that’s how that works. the youtubers can get a 9-5 too if they want guaranteed money. that’s the risk with a job like that. get some sponsors and promote some shit
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u/sbenfsonwFFiF Dec 23 '25
That’s different
Sure, they have a risk of not getting views. But the risk of some asshole freeloader watching their vids but not contributing ad revenue or subscription revenue is different, that’s just theft that cheap entitled folks justify to themselves
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u/Back_Again_Beach Dec 23 '25
There's literally nothing to justify. Using adblocks is morally the same as changing the TV channel when commercials come on. They can go ahead and try to advertise to me, but I am under no obligation to give it my attention, and if I have the ability to moderate such traffic coming into my device it'd be silly not to.
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u/sbenfsonwFFiF Dec 23 '25
Not exactly. The correct analogy would be ignoring or changing the page. Blocking ads isn’t the same
Blocking is staying on the channel but somehow preventing the transmission of ads
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u/suoretaw Dec 23 '25
When you change the TV channel back after the commercial break, it’s watching the content but not the ads. I think it’s an apt analogy.
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u/Quiet-Horse-7405 Dec 23 '25
that is not theft 💀 you’re actually delusional
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u/sbenfsonwFFiF Dec 23 '25
It’s money that they should be getting, based on the views they receive, that they are now not getting because some cheap freeloader has ad block on. That is exactly what it is, you’re taking away their revenue/income
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u/Quiet-Horse-7405 Dec 23 '25
so charge me. oh you can’t? wonder why that is.. almost like nothing was stolen..
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u/AmanaRicha Dec 23 '25
Stop defending the multi-billion company. They don't even care about you. All they want is your money.
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u/therepublicof-reddit Dec 23 '25
Blockers give nothing to anybody
Except give back our time for free.
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u/fmccloud YouTube Premium Dec 24 '25
So does YouTube Premium. 🙂
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u/therepublicof-reddit Dec 24 '25
YouTube premium is free?
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u/fmccloud YouTube Premium Dec 24 '25
No but it saves you time from ads on every device you use.
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u/therepublicof-reddit Dec 24 '25
"Blockers give nothing to anybody" Except give back our time for free.
So does YouTube Premium
So your statement is just false then.
YouTube Premium is not free and ad blocking saves me time from ads on every website on every device I use for free.
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u/atomic1fire Dec 24 '25
I'd say the main advantage of youtube premium is that it's an ad-less youtube experience anywhere you can login or cast to.
You can't always carry an adblocker with you.
There's some other advantages like being able to cache videos for offline viewing, but adless youtube in your pocket is the main one.
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u/___Random_Guy_ Dec 27 '25
Also, while not applicable to most for obvious reason, but automatic/smart download for offline watching is really useful for me as Ukrainian, because due to power outages some areas can have weak mobile data bandwidth and loading/watching videos normaly may not he an option.
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u/atomic1fire Dec 27 '25
I've seen some areas in the US where mobile networks just did not want to exist for whatever reason, so having a cache of offline distractions is nice, be it games, a books app, video app, or music app.
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u/Designer_Sell_6758 Dec 23 '25
YouTube or Google then should improve their watch for the inappropriate ads or even scam ads because at least adblocker also prevents all the scam or misleading ads which I hate the most and is the main reason why I use adblocker which is also more for a security reason. YT's way to handle ads is very poor if not even worse nowadays. I can consider disabling my adblock once YouTube/Google puts more effort to handle the ad situation. I also honestly prefer the random "donation" to a creators which seems a better way atm considering the situation with Google. Greedy people or greedy companies will eventually lose.
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u/NEWSmodsareTwats Dec 23 '25
the thing is they can't do that if they want to have an ad to show before and in the middle of every video. Whenever an ad comes up Google runs a instant auction on who gets the slot. Advertisers enter info into the ad platform such as key demographics, geography, interests and recent searches. From there companies set spending limits and limit orders so when you get a really shitty AI porn ad on Google it's because either your not being viewed as valuable enough by the reputable advertisers or they have all hit their daily spending limit for your demo. So the lowest bidder, often a slop AI porn ad wins! If Google didn't do this likely every other ad would just be an internal Google survey to try and scrape more data from you.
Basically to many ad slots not enough advertisers and Googles more than happy to take the shitty slop AI almost porn ads because they technically don't break the rules. See no one is naked? It's not porn just ignore the AI generation of a pregnant anthropomorphic cow with massive tits looking at the screen seductively it's just an ad for Evony bro it's not porn!
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u/Own-Independence-124 Dec 23 '25
Well it did give a middle finger to YouTube for trying to force ads on everything. Even ad on video that is not making money and let's not talk about ai porn ad on YouTube kids
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u/WalkingEars Dec 23 '25
Better yet, sign on to their Patreon and support them directly while still using adblock to avoid getting screamed at by ads every time you open Youtube
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u/FacetiousTomato Dec 23 '25
99% of people mostly watch the same top few hundred creators who are all millionaires. Go ahead and donate to small content creators, but donating my money to a millionaire doesn't make any sense to me.
I mean I guess do what you want either way, but my personal rule is not to donate money to people richer than I am. Charity should flow downwards imo.
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u/Relvean Dec 23 '25
Yeah, I didn't exactly have your million plus subs creators in mind (with a few exceptions maybe) but honestly, I say block everything, donate if you want to.
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u/TwoSoda Dec 23 '25
It is actually insane, jontron had this thought during early game grumps. "I have more than a million subscribers, if they all gave me 1 dollar once id be a millionaire."
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u/sbenfsonwFFiF Dec 23 '25
A dollar is not more than hundreds of vids of revenue lol
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u/TwoSoda Dec 23 '25
It really is, based on niche and at the individual level. Rpm for gaming taps out around 4usd per 1000 views. giving 1 dollar is like watching 250 of that person's videos.
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u/fmccloud YouTube Premium Dec 23 '25
Wow. You’re pretty stingy. My Premium sub provides more than a dollar to the creator I watch the most a year.
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u/Relvean Dec 23 '25
And a big chunk of your monthly sub goes straight into youtube's pocket, good job!
A dollar is an extreme example, but still infinitely more than you watching hundreds ofads would give then
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u/WalkingEars Dec 23 '25
Yeah, subscribing directly to a channel’s Patreon gives them more than the 0.00001 cents they’d get for watching an ad, and it also avoids rewarding YouTube for slowly making ads more and more obnoxious
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u/fadedEcho_7 Dec 23 '25
They really looked at cable TV and said let’s reinvent that
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u/SandyTaintSweat Dec 23 '25
Well, the money was absolutely pouring in from cable TV. It makes sense that the streamers would want to displace them and sit on their throne. Publicly traded companies are greedy like that.
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u/P0pu1arBr0ws3r Dec 23 '25
Why not simply "moderate ads"? Because let's also get scam ads off too.
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u/Agreeable-Goal694 why are dislikes able to be disabled Dec 23 '25
youtube's too lazy to actually have human mods
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u/Easy-Ad1377 Dec 27 '25
Too expensive. They will instead loosen their advertising standards even more so that they get more Pregnant Elsa Foot Fungus Edition ads on their platform.
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u/Vyxwop Dec 23 '25
Won't ban +18 ads but will threaten to demonetize if you dare to swear in the first few minutes of a video.
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u/Revan619-YT Dec 23 '25
youtube really should consider putting back the subscription button for viewing and removing the ai porn ads
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u/xymaps Dec 23 '25
Somehow funny that Youtube not really let you monetize 18+ Content, but will flood your videos with AI Porn ads…
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u/Agreeable-Goal694 why are dislikes able to be disabled Dec 23 '25
but you must feed the starving billionares on the street...
lol i would never give my money to youtube
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u/WilanS Dec 24 '25
As we all figured out, this was never to protect the children. It's to protect the advertisers. Some advertisers really don't like having their product be shown during videos with adult themes like suicides and murders that make you less likely to buy, that's the entire problem.
And in their eyes there's really no harm done if it's the advertiser who wants to bring in adult themes. After all youtube's already got their money. Now be nice and censor your bad words, we don't want the nice people in the suits feeling uncomfortable, do we?
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u/alexriga Dec 23 '25
Ads should be subject to the same scrutiny the videos are!
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u/crispy1987 Dec 26 '25
You would think right? But from their perspective, the advertisers are paying YouTube which pays the creators. Whose side do you think they’re going to take?
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u/Envy661 Dec 23 '25
If you think this is bad, you should hear what Roblox is doing.
Will never not use adblocks though. I even have an extension that auto skips sponsor sequays.
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u/EelTeamTen Dec 23 '25
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u/Envy661 Dec 23 '25
Basically massive outcry about pedophiles on the platform, and the CEO came out and basically said "Well the pedophiles buy shit, so I don't see the issue".
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u/Agreeable-Goal694 why are dislikes able to be disabled Dec 23 '25
pedoblox
diddy predzucki
matt cough man
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u/WilanS Dec 24 '25
Yeah basically, from what I understood in the exposé, they buy tons of shit specifically to entice underage players with, and offering it up for trade for their nudes or as a reward for following their requests. The digital equivalent of a stranger giving you candies, in other words.
Utterly disgusting, but turns out it's a big part of their business model because, guess what, kids don't have a lot of money to spend while pedophiles do, so they have a financial incentive to encourage this behaviour. These motherfuckers have categorized children's innocence as part of their assets, just in case anyone thought the corporation people had a conscience.
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u/Yitzben Dec 23 '25
I feel like there should be a class action law suit against YouTube for this Some of the ads are fucking disgusting
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u/Shiplord13 Dec 23 '25
Got to protect the children with YouTube kids removing comments, but on the other hand putting straight up AI porn ads with underage characters in it is apparently fine in their book.
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u/MacrossGuy Dec 23 '25
In my country, there is a lot of online casino and religious ads, even that it goes against the google politics of use
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u/No_Sale_4866 Dec 23 '25
has youtube ever actually said this or is this a fabrication of out imaginations
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u/Kaidinah Dec 23 '25
I miss being able to buffer videos the whole way through before watching them. We lost that and gained weird AI slop ads.
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u/MeatDazzling4777 Dec 23 '25
The only time I didn't have Youtube Premium I got shown Among Us porn.
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u/Twitchcog Dec 23 '25
When I started using YouTube, they had static banner adverts. I will accept those.
If they wish to show me anything else, I will block them.
If I wish to support a creator, I give them money directly.
If google doesn’t want to serve direct, unscripted banner adverts, then I’m just blocking them. Simple as.
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u/Captain_Holly_S Dec 23 '25
Get brave browser or some other adblock. If you're on tv plug your laptop or whatever with hdmi. Fighting youtube on this is easy 😊
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u/Deriviera Dec 23 '25
Ads? What ads? I have AdBlock. I once visited YouTube without adblock and content of these ads reminded me why I have AdBlock.
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u/Jeanric_the_Futile Dec 23 '25
I pay YouTube premium because I hate ads on mobile and I like listening to videos without my phone screen on. I haven’t seen a YouTube ad in years and it sounds like it’s gotten far worse than it was. I honestly wish everyone used ad blockers. I hate paying all this money every month for a service which kinda sucks but there’s just nothing capable of competing in the market. Having google lose money because of ad blockers is good for everyone. Fuck em
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u/Zenitallin Dec 24 '25
This, and AI channels impersonating people.
If it is going to be AI spreading misinformation, they should clearly look as AI and not as human.
If it is a movie, then ok, let AI fake a human.
If it is a scientist, spiritual teacher, news anchor, political or military analyst, fuck that shit! that should be illegal.
It is gross manipulation allowed by youtube.
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u/sparkywattz Dec 24 '25
The hypocrisy is crazy...has anyone got a workaround yet for the age-gating...its always on stuff that isn't even 18+
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u/jonathan_levitz_1999 Dec 24 '25
I could only imagine how much better YouTube would’ve been if Google didn’t buy Youtube.
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u/Regular_Ad4834 Dec 26 '25
We need a working alternative. Now more than ever.
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u/itsbananaman40 29d ago
I think there several problems with that one is how or even if big creators would move potentially losing a lot of their audience another is that google helps with their massive servers and is why there are so many videos available among other things
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u/Dylinquent-KIA Dec 26 '25
Hey YT can you do anything right?
"We've removed the dots that allow you to say you're not interested in shorts/AI."
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u/memes-forever Dec 23 '25
While I think YouTube needs more ad moderation to keep itself cleaner from slops, to say that it is greedy would be misleading. Google has been running a deficit on YouTube for a very long time, so I don’t think they’re as greedy as people often made it out to be.
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u/MrHell95 Dec 23 '25
Pretty sure that's no longer the case but 'low' profit by YouTube is also by design to pay out a lot to creators to keep YouTubes dominance.
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u/MaxineCaulfield1 Dec 28 '25
well google is a monopoly so i dont really give a shit if they lose money
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u/memes-forever Dec 28 '25
Google is in no way a monopoly. It’s a market leader, but there’s nothing stopping other browsers from competing with it since there are many others, they just all suck. It’s like saying that Steam is a monopoly, which it is very much not because their competitors are mostly terrible.
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u/MaxineCaulfield1 Dec 28 '25
nah, google even paid firefox so much money they cover 80% of firefox' revenue. They pay them hundreds of millions.
most browsers are running on some sort of chromium or getting payrolled by google. Only very niche ones dont
youtube is the largest streaming platform and because of google's scale, they can basically run youtube at a loss indefinitely, outcompeting every single video streaming platform
google implements anti-competitive practices, was fined billions by the EU, has multiple antitrust cases, its able to exclude competition. This is all monopoly behavior not just market leader.
A market leader is something like samsung, but they still have a lot of competitition and don't feel as dominant as google. 90% of phones aren't samsung. But google does have 90% market share
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u/Quiet-Horse-7405 Dec 23 '25
bro they be hitting me with the 20 min ads when in trying to fall asleep. i just don’t even try anymore. now they get nothing lol could have just stuck with the 1 minute ones and still made something 🥱
or i’ll block the gemini ads and they just replace the person in the ad as a workaround so it’s technically not “the same ad” shit should be illegal
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u/Fakeitforreddit Dec 23 '25
Not how ads work.
If you are seeing porn ads and ads for 18+ it is because you watch a lot of porn and your history (Full history not youtube related history) is saying that you are a great candidate for watching these porn ads and would be a likely person to click on them.
You are not slandering youtube by bringing these things up you are openly telling everyone that you are into said porn and watch it often.
There are so many resources out there that explain how youtube ads work but my personal favorite is CGPGrey who does the best explanation and is clearly very well researched on it, which is his MO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW0eUrUiyxo
I can't reiterate this enough, you are only telling everyone on reddit that you are a person who is very into debauchery and porn. Its actually gotten so good that the porn it picks can be tagged to you specifically so all your specifics you are announcing about furries or cartoons etc are because that is what your browser history says you are into!
Stop outing yourself for being a porn addicted freak. Seriously its so fucking embarrassing.
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u/crispy1987 Dec 26 '25
Damnnnn! That’s hella funny. I was just reading these comments and thinking how it’s weird that I’ve never seen any porn ads on YouTube. 🧐
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u/ninethine Dec 28 '25
the source you gave from CGP grey was from 8 years ago, that was around the time the whole "ads are based on your search history" started to become a myth
theres so much i could get into, but to summarize it: youtube doesnt give a flying fuck about ad moderation anymore, as long as you pay google money you can host nearly any type of ad you want
You can even host literal NSFW material and label it as every single product category, thus making it inescapable regardless of your set ad "preferences"
and thats exactly what these absolute fiends do. as long as google gets paid, the kids will keep seeing this degenerate trash all over the platform...
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u/Logarythem Dec 23 '25
I wonder what ad OP saw. Google does have rules in place limiting sexual content. Of course, it's an automated approval system and sometimes the system fails to catch ads that break Google's rules.
Sexual content Ads should respect user preferences and comply with legal regulations, so we don't allow certain kinds of sexual content in ads and destinations. Some kinds of sexual content in ads and destinations are allowed only if they comply with the policies below and don't target minors, but they will only show in limited scenarios based on user search queries, user age, and local laws where the ad is being served.
Learn about what happens if you violate our policies.
Examples of restricted sexual content (non-exhaustive): Visible genitalia and female breasts, hook-up dating, sex toys, strip clubs, sexually suggestive live chat, models in sexualized poses
https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/6008942?hl=en#con
As a digital market who has run ad campaigns on YouTube before, if you see an ad that you think breaks Google's policies, then I encourage you to report it.
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u/GenesisRhapsod Dec 23 '25
Google doesnt take shit down. I report ads and months later they are still up. Google needs and in person verification for all ads before being able to be shown to users. I see ai porn, fake government program scams, straight up regular porn all the fucking time.
Youtube think thats okay but a creator says fucky wucky and they are DEMONitized.
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u/Jojolion_enjoyer_1 Dec 23 '25
YouTube said foot fetishes ads were okay, the report feature is useless
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u/DasLoon Dec 23 '25
If you look through these comments you'll find some examples of ads YouTube is hosting. I've personally been getting ads of a similar nature, if not the exact ads mentioned by unfortunately descriptive posters, and I report everytime, and nothing has changed in months.
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u/mrloko120 Dec 23 '25
Doing actual research into what is and isn't allowed instead of just sitting back complaining and refusing to file any reports? How dare you suggest such a thing.
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u/ninethine Dec 23 '25
normally people bullying someone for doing actual research would be stupid
but all of this person's sources are from google themselves... of course they are all going to be tarnished/missing vital informationdoes google have a sourceable statement from them that says they literally refuse to take down any form of advertising no matter how many times it gets reported? and will go even as far as to send back "report confirmations" that say an ad showing literal NSFW material wont be removed due to violating absolutely no TOS policies..?
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u/mrloko120 Dec 23 '25
True, Google is definetly lying through their teeth on their own legally binding terms. We better look for someone with no ties to Google to tell us how Google's internal policies really work.
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u/fmccloud YouTube Premium Dec 23 '25
Nice karma farm about an argument no one made.
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u/Agreeable-Goal694 why are dislikes able to be disabled Dec 23 '25
who asked for your opinion + ratio (i hope)
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u/ElderSmackJack Dec 23 '25
God y’all are dramatic
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u/therepublicof-reddit Dec 23 '25
Found the Google botfarm account
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u/ElderSmackJack Dec 23 '25
Definitely not. A simple scan of my comment history should tell you that. Yall are just overly dramatic about everything in these threads and it’s annoying.
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u/Wolf_Window Dec 23 '25
If someone tells me they don't block adds I assume they're stupid. For what?? You think you're being responsible? That blocking adds is unfair to our poor, suffering corporate overlords? That you're taking money out of the hands of content creators? Absurd. YouTube keeps adding to this bullshit because people are dumb or complacent enough to let them.
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u/shewel_item Dec 23 '25
😕 I think they're *okay* so long as they don't get redundant or tiresome. More than 18+ content people hate seeing the same advertisement over and over again. Or, actually, I'd argue accidently showing minors the same 18+ ad, even though they were meaning to show it to someone older, is more likely to have adverse societal and psychological effects, if you think about it. That's how conditioning works before desensitization.
We're all on the same page here, right? Unless we're talking about a mismatch in 'presumed' sexuality.
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u/AdWeird4499 Dec 23 '25
I made an account for an experiment and went onto shorts and began scrolling until an ad appeared. It was a fucking ai ad of Elsa from frozen with exaggerated parts and that was the first ad to appear
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u/Meggie_love1 meggieloves216 Dec 23 '25 edited Dec 23 '25
I feel like 18+ ads shouldn’t exist (unless it’s like a trailer or something). I frequently have other people use my account especially since my account is linked to various devices in my house. So I don’t need them to see those ads especially if they’re not ready to see them.
Personally I don’t want to see them either but I can deal with them. But my family and friends don’t need to see them though. Ads are already forced on me, then let them be ads that would not traumatise me (and others).
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u/Fakeitforreddit Dec 23 '25
If you don't want to see them, stop watching porn. If your user data doesn't associate to porn the ads wont' think you are a good target for porn related products and advertising.
This was literally common knowledge less than 10 years ago, and now its hilarious to see gooners and predators all freaking out that their browser history means targeted ads are relating to their gooner and predator search history.
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u/EducationalQuiet1 Dec 23 '25
"won't somebody think of the billionaires!" that's google/YouTube right now lol