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YouTube accused of aiming ads at kids after promising it wouldn't do that::Web giant comes out swinging, says allegations 'without merit'

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[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 104 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Brodude@lemmy.world 92 points 2 years ago

'We didn't sell our soul to the devil, we auctioned it'.

[–] bquintb@midwest.social 63 points 2 years ago

Are you telling me that multi-billion dollar companies don't give a fuck about people or their kids???? Who knew!

[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"I was just trying to watch some spider man dancing videos and somehow I wound up being fed Ben Shapiro and PragerU videos"

YouTube's algorithm sucks, it funnels everyone to far-right garbage, and so many of their "kid's" videos are videos that kids absolutely shouldn't be watching.

[–] grayman@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

My favorite are the videos of nannies playing with kids in some weird way and then they bend over or spread their legs. Quality garbage there. Thanks Google.

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Gotta indoctrinate them young to be model consumers.

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Youtube knows it makes money.

[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 years ago

they'll just pay yet another small fine for their bad behavior

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago
[–] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

If you tell a company to do something it ALWAYS has to be a thinly veiled threat that you will fuck their wallet if they don't comply. Otherwise it's all lip service and does nothing but waste our time

[–] Pectin8747@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Capitalism gonna capitalize...

do no evil

I mean I know it’s not in the charter any more… but honestly… 😬