They cry about not being able to serve ads while serving ads that are straight malware and scams. It’s especially funny when a platform goes out of their way to censor (suppress ad revenue) on videos which have even a chance of being misinformation and then proceed to play back to back ads of somebody selling their get rich quick webinar.

[–] frankgrimeszz@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

On YouTube, AI Musk has been telling me every other day about some amazing get rich quick scheme. I report it and days later YouTube emails me saying “Our investigation concluded that this is not a scam or spam”. As if.

[–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

Also if they were just less intrusive, a little static banner ad is fine

[–] Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The best part is that more ethical ads are harder to block, because trackers are one of the easiest ways to identify ads.

Hell, the adblocker I use (adnauseam) doesn't block ethical ads by default.

[–] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What are ethical ads?

[–] Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In general: non-intrusive, non-tracking ads, with robust verification (i.e. not scams or lies), such as the ones you find on https://modrinth.com, or duckduckgo

With adnauseam: https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/FAQ#what-is-the-effs-do-not-track-standard-and-how-it-is-supported-in-adnauseam

[–] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 months ago

I just visited Modrinth and yeah, the ads even match the theme of the website!