Originally published at: Stoner shocked when he disables his ad blocker | Boing Boing
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Guy who wants to buy a internet company acts shocked about targeted ads
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Was he so high that he forgot which deal he’s trying to weasel out of, or is he trying to tank Youtube stock before a big buy-up? There is only one lens for Elon tweets now.
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It’s troll all the way down, isn’t it? ISN’T IT?!?
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Richest man in the world can’t pay $10 for youtube premium?
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He’s not liquid enough
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Does he realize those ads are targeted at him? I don’t see that many scam ads on Youtube. Time to think about your viewing habits Elon.
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To be fair, i am surprised by the actual, literal scam ads on YouTube. Google doesn’t really do any leg work to see if an ad is for something legit or not. I’ve seen a number of video ads for stuff like getting free unlimited game currency for popular video games, fake mobile versions of games that don’t actually have a mobile version, totally fake apps, questionable/fake products, etc.
Also sending in flags for these ads is really difficult. I tried once a while back and gave up
PS: i get these ads when in the official phone app since i can’t block the ads there
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It’s been this way for decades. I blocked the google text ads way way back when it was all ridiculous scams.
“Get your free PS3 here” - IIRC, it wasn’t even ANNOUNCED at that point.
“Download Star Wars Episode I here” - It was still in theaters.
You can’t bother with the obvious scams, I can’t bother with your ads.
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So at some point, my ad blocker stopped working, and I had to find a new one. But before that, I saw some youtube ads, including an ad for Slavic women that was so misogynist that I thought for a minute this was satire. 
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When my YT adblocker wasn’t working, most of the ads I saw were for Liberty Mutual Insurance.
Which is certainly a scam, but…
Perhaps he’ll do us a favor and buy YouTube and clean it up. Heh.
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I don’t think Google (er… “Alphabet”) has any interest in selling Youtube.
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Elon probably paid for half the bots on YouTube and the twitters.
Then feigns shock.
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There must have been a Tesla ad touting full self driving.
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Did “One trick of a flat belly” finally go away? That was everywhere for the longest time. (And always with the same appalling grammar.)
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“Doctors say to never eat this weird fruit!!”
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The “these are the most beautiful twins” chumbox item always squicks me out.
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Youtube is riddled with doubled up ads that are only sometimes skippable, in a pattern that seems designed to inspire the maximum amount of rage. Ads that play before, during, and after videos. I have seen double 15 second ads in front of one minute videos.
Fuck Youtube ads, for real though.
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