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About 30% of the ads I see are that crypto scam. I’m sure I’ve seen it over 100 times. There are several variants with different people. I don’t understand how that scam is paying for the massive volume of ad time they’re getting. It must cost a fortune.

I also get tons of French ads and I don’t speak French.

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You would think Google having all this amazing AI could moderate their YouTube ads....

But those crypto scams make them money.

Google definitely moderates their ads. It's hard to not see them as an accomplish.

In the last two weeks I already seen three adverts of a terribly made AI Musk trying to sell me crypto.

They're tailored to your habits somehow. It's not like those videos are served to housewives who watch and search for completely different segments of reality. They'll be getting the gutworm RFK lotus seed ads.

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