The bigger problem is those fake "realistic robot dog" ads, and all the other ai-faked products.

Why YT and Google in general would want to be associated with such scammery, I do not know.

They get paid per ad. Whether the product actually works is not their problem, unless they get a lawsuit. IIRC Facebook did lose a lawsuit over scam ads, but continued doing the process it was sued for, because it's so profitable, and just added a check so those ads don't get shown to regulators.

>Why YT and Google in general would want

They want the numbers to always go up. Scam ads pay just like non-scam ads.

Hence why companies have to be forced not to be assholes with legislation.

Most of the YT ads are AI rubbish. I can't imagine those fake "realistic puppy" ads generate any sales whatsoever. Same for the monocular that can zoom into a book title from a mountain range away. And nearly all the other YT and news feed ads one typically sees.

Frankly, they should be illegal. If a physical store did that in Canada, it certainly would be. I'm surprised Canada hasn't reacted to these overabundant fake-product ads.

With YT, it might be an account-specific metric. Ie: flagged as a frequent sleeper. This would not surprise me, since they track just about every other metric possible against your account.

You can have multiple YT accounts on a single gmail acct, but I don't think that'll fool them. They know where you initially logged in from. So you will likely need multiple gmail accounts to do this kind of experiment.

Good shout.

They don't have SIMs, they'll be connected to a VPN router, and I'll create new Gmail accounts for each device, from each device.

Some "news" sites are so annoying about their ads, I just close the tab and google for someone else's version of the story. I block sites that show up in my news feed often but display more nag than content.

I'm sure in their mind, they don't care about me leaving. Apparently more than enough people put up with it to keep the site viable.

lite.cnn.com is the best lightweight news site I know of, though it is still CNN and probably more US-focused.

There is also https://text.npr.org

impressive... let's see the page source

Pretty wild. Mine (Chromium on Raspberry Pi) was 52mb, bumped up to 58mb to write this response.

I don't call AI slop. I call people uploading things with obvious errors in it slop.

If you're taking the easy route by having an AI narrator, for example, please have the decency to listen to it, and respell words that get mispronounced. "Kay Em Ess" is not a distance measurement. "Cee Dee Ess" is not an antiquated media format. etc.

Those mispronunciations and misreads are absolute slop, because other AIs end up training on it. They will just become more and more "normalized" if people don't put at least a little care into their AI output.

This is gonna be some interesting trivia over breakfast tomorrow morning. "Hey, Did you know your yogurt parfait is generating antimatter? Right now?"

Which seems to leave the Orange Pi, Odroid, Tinker, etc.

It's never a good idea to ban by brand popularity.

My pet peeve is lazy "documentaries" where the uploader doesn't even bother to edit their input text. This results in a lot of weird verbal errors that you'd never hear from an actual human speaker. They instantly distract listeners from the content, so why even bother?

There are quite a few links to this kind of content every day on HN.

They're pulling this exact thing with Ghislaine Maxwell, but with the opposite outcome.