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YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it (mashable.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Considering how prevalent scams and actively malicious content posing as ads are across ad services in general, having an ad blocker is just basic online safety at this point.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I still see fake download button ads distributed via Google's own ad infrastructure to this day. I even reported a few that were taken down.

For all the AI prowess Google likes to brag about, why can't they make a simple "does this look like a download button?" detector? The scams are not that clever, most of them follow one of a small number of specific patterns.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

Malicious ad money is ad money

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

It's not that they can't, its that they won't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Why would they? They would lose money if they did that