Comment by strickinato

4 days ago

Actually - BOTH videos in the screenshot are ads - so there are zero videos on the homescreen already

I don't think so? The "I Skied Down Mount Everest" is from the Red Bull channel. It may be a commercial channel, but it's not an ad, i.e. they didn't pay for placement (doesn't say "Sponsored" like the other one).

  • and they are often good videos (if you like watching extreme sports related things), given the partial second video this seems likely for the account who made the screenshot

    but given that half a video is not a full video this still means we are at one single full video

    and an AD which is deceptively pretending to be a video

    I still think regulators should ban deceptive ads and require ads to to clearly different from the main content _on the first take/glance_. They way YT, Google and co handle ads is IMHO deceptive to a point its reasonable to say they try to deceive the user into clicking on the ad when they wouldn't have done so if they new it was an ad.

    And "systematically deceiving a user/customer to their detriment (wasting time) and your profit" isn't just shitty but on a gray line to outright fraud.

    • I dont particularly enjoy red bulls drinks, but their ads are often cool enough to be considered content.

      It's probably the only company with ads that are more enjoyable than their product.

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