I have gotten actual unabashed, uncensored, pornography as ads on youtube, meanwhile content creators have to juggle not saying "fuck" too much cause otherwise it's adult content and they can't get paid, but they also have to say it enough times for it not to be kids content which also means they can't get paid

Youtube has ads? ;)

"ads are based on your activity" they say. I like biology and I am frequently engaging in biology related topics on the internet, yet they keep spamming me with gambling ads, israel army recruitment ads (yes these are a thing!), and occasionally the hot girl mobile games, all ads I literally did not ask for. Everything is thrown at me, most being harmful and completely unrelated to my interests, except biology.

An ad about what? Is this real? Creators of true crime documentaries can't say "rape" or "murder" for fear of being demonetized but they show ads like this?

I watched a YouTube ad once that was almost a full-length reading of a porn comic wherein a teenage boy is helping his stepmother move into his home, and he's like "Why does she have so many vegetables??" (Boxes of phallic produce.) It only ended right before they actually fucked.

Since SmartTube was compromised I uninstalled it and factory reset my tv, then I tried the official YouTube app. I didn't even finish one video before installing ST again. I rather have hackers than ads.

My favorite but of specific criticism was how they demonetized firearm-related channels because advertisers didn't want to be associated with guns, but they didn't stop running ads on those channels.

Did they remove channel blocking recently? Something very undesirable appeared on my recommendations this week, and when I went to the channel to block it it the button wasn’t there, and worse still me going to the channel auto played more of its shit. So now YouTube think I want more.

You joke but YouTube unironically shows ads like that. And more often than not, they're AI generated copyright theft, too.

These are just a few that I've seen in the last few months. It's an epidemic.

spoiler

current day youtube reminds me of current day nintendo switch eshop. (its also full of adult anime games - largely with neural-network-generated images)

tell you who that product is for.