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Re:YouTube suspended my channel for a video with disclosed i... by usr1106 on Friday January 14, 2022 @08:46AM (#29934337)
I don't think that I have ever seen a single ad for Grammarly on Youtube. Well, Google proably knows that I don't live in an English speaking country.

I do see Grammarly ads if I search things like "practice or practise" because I write English every work day.

Well, I use Firefox account containers and auto cookie delete everywhere. So Youtube knows little about me writing English.

Many people outside the English-speaking world will never see those adds. Your search bubble is not others.

Despite that, even in the search bubbles containing Grammarly I doubt closing an account with 3 videos will do any significant PR damage to anyone.

So what where the videos about? Grammarly storing everything the user writes??? Selling it to others???

Re:YouTube suspended my channel for a video with disclosed i... by inglor_cz on Friday January 14, 2022 @09:00AM (#29934462)
"Many people outside the English-speaking world will never see those adds. Your search bubble is not others."

I am a Czech and I see them all the damn time. Maybe because I consume a lot of English content.

Re:YouTube suspended my channel for a video with disclosed i... by usr1106 on Friday January 14, 2022 @09:06AM (#29934511)
I generally don't use Youtube a lot and because I never log in they have no profile for me. So they show me random household ads based on location. Very poorly targeted, 90% completely uninteresting stuff. They even don't know my mother tongue :)
Re:YouTube suspended my channel for a video with disclosed i... by whatch on Friday January 14, 2022 @09:13AM (#29934592)
> because I never log in they have no profile for me

Oh I wish this was true

Re:YouTube suspended my channel for a video with disclosed i... by slantyyz on Friday January 14, 2022 @09:14AM (#29934614)
What I find funny is that YouTube knows who I am and where I live (English-speaking Canada), but every now and then I go through a short time period (a few days) where most of the ads are in French (for Canada).