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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I haven't read the article, but surely this is an accident? I have almost no faith left in our capitalistic society, but surely even Youtube understands that nobody is going to watch an hour long ad, right?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

The most mysterious one to me happened in 2015 or so. I was watching Zero Punctuation, and it served me an hour long computer networking lecture as an ad. Like, some Indian guy delivering a power point presentation. I was like, what's the monetization strategy here, guys? Did this dude pay you to serve his lectures as ads? What?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

A lot of people leave YouTube running in the background, so they might listen to it.