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Re:Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appe... by spencerflem on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @12:10PM (#46515083)
And the worst part is, from a societal point of view - it doesnt matter if $companyA wins over $companyB, if the reason they won is that there was more Geico ads than Liberty ads etc.

We allow every space to be overrun with these things, wasting our time and infecting our brains and in the end its zero-sum for the companies and negative-sum for us. No value anywhere is created.

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Re:Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appe... by ksaj on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @12:51PM (#46515801)
The bigger problem is those fake "realistic robot dog" ads, and all the other ai-faked products.

Why YT and Google in general would want to be associated with such scammery, I do not know.

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Re:Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appe... by pixl97 on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:00PM (#46515955)
>Why YT and Google in general would want

They want the numbers to always go up. Scam ads pay just like non-scam ads.

Hence why companies have to be forced not to be assholes with legislation.

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Re:Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appe... by immibis on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:26PM (#46516379)
They get paid per ad. Whether the product actually works is not their problem, unless they get a lawsuit. IIRC Facebook did lose a lawsuit over scam ads, but continued doing the process it was sued for, because it's so profitable, and just added a check so those ads don't get shown to regulators.
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