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For me, almost every YouTube ad is a scam.

Medical supplements or plans that make claims that clearly aren’t real, financial scams (crypto or get-rich-quick schemes), or product scams (this new device that ‘they’ don’t want you to know about can heat/cool your house in minutes for pennies!).

I’m pretty sure none of this is legal, and Google obviously doesn’t care.

FWIW I have ad personalization off - perhaps it’s a bit better for those who don’t?

>>jrmg+(OP)
Quite a bit - I get ads for septic tanks because I have looked at them several times and tank companies continue to advertise for me because I might buy. I get ads for robot mowers because, again, I looked at them. I still see "the bottom of the barrel" ads occasionally, but it's very rare. Ad blitzes on the other hand ... (no, I don't want to build an app just-by-thinking-about-it) ...

>>jrmg+(OP)
I used to get SO MANY “heres how I make $6,000/day in passive income with chatGPT”. I reported am all, I know it never did anything

>>chamom+L
I wonder if reporting them gives them more engagement, since that would mean you watched it and paid enough attention.

>>svieir+H
At one point a few months ago, YouTube seems to have gotten the idea that I have some kind of bowel problem, and I'd constantly get ads about my "stuck poop." WTF? I'm watching a woodworking tutorial, I don't want to fucking hear about poop! Total bottom of the barrel.

>>ryandr+uB
Several months ago, my wife bought several bottles of pureed pumpkin babyfood, because small amounts added to catfood can treat some feline stomach issues.

Now, we're getting diaper commercials all over youtube. I assume we're flagged in some database as likely having a new child, but you can't ever know for sure.

>>yifanl+m5
From when I worked in the video ad industry, the industry standard was that an impression was binary and seeing a single frame of the ad counted. IDK if YouTube follows the Interactive Advertising Bureau guidelines, but they probably do. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xandr/industry-reference/i...

>>ryandr+uB
FWIW, those seem to be a current ‘trend’. I’m getting them with personalization switched off.

>>kbelde+p01
https://myadcenter.google.com/personalizationoff

You can look up your Google ad profile and see if "pregnant" is one of your account's attributes. Facebook has a similar page somewhere.