~~YouTube~~ Google ads and its advertisers have been a plague upon Video essay creators.
I didn't know you could get arrested for possessing a half ounce of blur, but here we are in 2026.
It is an interesting use case to monitor because there are obvious need for something like crypto, but so that has not come close to taking hold.
Because on both TikTok and Instagram people don't actively choose(most of the time) what they want to watch. The algorithm chooses for them. So if you're a content creator and you self censor yourself then you're making it more likely the algorithm will pick you, because they can show ads around your content. They will say they aren't censoring because the other videos are not technically banned, but no content creator wants to be skipped by the algorithm.
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w24452/w244...
It takes a lot to get your own attrocites page on Wikipedia
the advertising industry in general is a plague on a great many things, in the current instance of late stage capitalism we exist in.