[NotOscarWilde]

It reminds me of the fact that the "Fake Mr Beast giveaway" ads that even raised some attention here on Hacker News [1] a while ago are still around. In fact, I have seen one yesterday. Those must have been flagged as impersonation and scam thousands of times by many people, including me personally, and Youtube finds them perfectly fine.

After that episode, where I tried myself to get rid of them, I am much more convinced that Youtube is fine with all but the worst scammers, and don't buy any of the "they're just low on manpower" arguments anymore.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34943047

[coffeebeqn]

I’m sure big budget scams pay great CPM! You’re thinking too customer friendly

[jareklupinski]

> thinking too customer friendly

gentle reminder that 'customer' for youtube _is_ MrBeast / CPM scammers / et al

you and me (users) are the 'product'

[Waterluvian]

Last year for weeks I was seeing these fake Mario games on YouTube ads. And it wasn’t a Mario feel-like. They called it “Super Mario” and had whole asset rips in the graphics.

Nintendo lawyers were surely all over that. I’m shocked it took so long to get them removed.

[leobg]

YouTube should be indicted for fraud. They are publishing this stuff, knowing it and sharing in the profits.

Same goes for X, btw.