Any human looking at the advert for one second would have seen that it was an obvious scam but I had dozens of them in the past fortnight.
With those huge-ass platforms, they concern themselves more with algorithmic practices for filtration rather than any human-based interaction.The 'perceptions of scale' concept only applies when the model is trained sufficiently and unfortunately, it's much easier to outpace the current type of moderation that these larger sites are using, especially if you have any amount of creativity at all. Scammers run wild.
I really would have thought that there would have been at least some human verification at some point before the adverts go live just to make sure they're not advertising porn or, you know, blatant scams. This just seems like a massive hole that can easily be exploited by scammers and obviously is being done time after time. Saw another one yesterday with the Winklevi. I can't imagine it's cheap for the scammers to advertise though, especially with the amount of ads I've been seeing. Does anyone know what it costs roughly to do a pre-roll ad there? I guess it probably differs by content and creators but I still would be surprised if they made their money back, but it's obviously something the scammers are willing to gamble on.
Over the past week or two I've been seeing these double your bitcoin scam adverts before youtube videos. Elon Musk, Vitalik Buterin, the CEO of Sony and a couple of others have all been used to try get people to send bitcoins.
Let's look at it in another direction, only an avaricious person would fall for this scam. Anyone who is familiar with Bitcoin in the age and own a Bitcoin wallet should first know that doubling Bitcoin is a joke. Well I don't disagree with you there and you've got to be pretty stupid and greedy to fall for it, but regardless youtube shouldn't be promoting this stuff.
