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Submission + - Is Google/YouTube ripping off advertisers? 1

Anne Thwacks writes: I have been on YouTube since it started, and I have never clicked on an advert. Not once. I was taught by my grandmother "if they need to pay for advertising, what they are selling must be terrible!" (OK, this was in the 1950's when food, clothing and everything else was rationed — but hunger is hard to forget).

However, If I go on YouTube, I am literally pounded with adverts, even though YouTube know I won't click. I am a pensioner — I can't afford to pay for the stuff, even if I did want it. But advertisers are paying for it — and I know its not cheap — my employers used to buy Google Ads.

Google Ads are pocketing the money — knowing it won't ever sell anything. How is this not theft?

Submission + - Does AI really exist? If so, is it in charge of YouTube? 1

Anne Thwacks writes: Today I watched a video about WW2 in which the the battle of the Atlantic was being fought by Yu-Bots!
I know some people have accents that are a little hard to understand, but the YouTube process for generating captions is about 20 years behind the rest of the planet — particularly in failing to recognise the context of videos and adapting its dictionary accordingly — you would thing that Russian and Ukrainian names and places would be recognised in videos about ware in Ukraine, even (especially) if not in British football chants.
I was led to believe there was a thing called AI — I can believe the Artificial part, but Intelligence? Not to much!

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