- YouTube displays ads with sexually explicit content
- He has been fighting with them since the end of last year
- Advertisers can bypass platform rules
YouTube has long since become an integral part of our lives. We listen to music, podcasts or watch movies through it, our children look for entertainment on it. Now imagine that your innocent child will be watching his favorite fairy tale and at the beginning of it, instead of a washing powder commercial, porn will jump out at him. Yes, that can happen too.
We expect ads containing sexually explicit scenes on portals with illegal copies of movies or adult websites. But we consider YouTube a safe place where nothing like this happens. But the opposite is true and YouTube is losing its own battle with NSFW ads. Every advertiser can display anything in them – even the established YouTube rules on prohibited content can be circumvented relatively easily. So anything can easily jump out at you from an ad.
Wtf is this @YouTube @YouTubeIndia literally the first fucking ad is this. Like these don’t even go through any ad review or approval. At this just let them post porn pic.twitter.com/1Y3Wvvlbme
— Anfz (@Anfz_dx) July 23, 2024
YouTube management is of course aware of the problem and is trying to solve it. Its spokesperson said that all such ads will be deleted immediately. But it is not so easy to detect them and sometimes they stay on the platform for a relatively long time before disappearing. In addition, advertisements are a huge source of revenue for YouTube and their regulation is not so simple. And tougher rules mean fewer advertisers.
At the same time, this type of ads with sexually explicit content first penetrated the platform at the end of last year, and YouTube immediately began to delete them. Now they started appearing again. And it’s not just a few annoying ads. According to a YouTube spokesperson, the company removed or blocked 5.5 billion ads in 2023 alone. AND 94.6 million of them had inappropriate content for adults.
Are you going to pay more attention to your kids watching YouTube now?
Resources: Android Police, Twitter, Pixabay
Source: www.svetandroida.cz
