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Re:Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface by dspillett on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @07:31AM (#26633357)
> but KYC-ing advertisers and screening/auditing ads for blatant and obvious scams or false marketing is many orders of magnitude less resource intensive

And very easy to automate. We know they can do it. But until there is sufficient threat of action if they don't then they are happy to let their users get fleeced in exchange for the advertising $.

There is an argument that "if they crack down on the easy to detect stuff, the scams will just get more clever" but that is not at all why they aren't making more effort.

One funny thing I've noticed with facebook, is that if you start responding to such adverts with comments along the lines of "this is obviously a scam because..." responses, they start showing you more and more of that sort of scam presumably because you have shown engagement with the previous ones.

Re:Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface by read_if_gay_ on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @08:24AM (#26633768)
For an extra dose of cynicism keep in mind Youtube is demonetizing countless videos supposedly because advertisers don’t want to be associated with such content. Garbage ads certainly aren’t exempt from that logic, yet there doesn’t seem to be as much of a crackdown on them.
Re:Ubiquiti starts serving ads in their management interface by furyg3 on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @05:18PM (#26640683)
The content creators aren't paying them, the advertisers are.