Trump ads have been on top of my YouTube feed for the last week, if not longer

[GusFring]

How much did they pay for this?

[TheBlackAdder]

1. FireFox w/NoScript, uBlock, DuckDuckGo's Privacy Essentials & EFF's Badger cuts all ads/tracking out

.

Then get the Enhancer for YouTube plugin. You won't know how you watched YouTube without it.

Their ad campaigns are probably based on clicks and not impressions. No one clicks on them, but people see the ads pop up. Click on them and make the campaign pay between $2-5. You can only do this once every 24 hours because software resolves multiple clicks to prevent a person from draining a campaign's daily fund allotment.

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[smirkymonkey]

6. Good to know! I am seeing them everywhere as well!

I'll start draining them with the next add I recieve!

[Squinch]

8. Also AdBlockPlus does a pretty good job. I have that and Firefox and I use DuckDuckGo.

[hibbing]

2. notice that myself n/t

[bamagal62]

3. They showed up on my Facebook feed in the past week.

[TheBlackAdder]

7. See my FireFox post above. Use Facebook Container to stop tracking & AdGuard AdBlocker for ads.

[RockRaven]

4. YouTube, aka Alphabet, aka Google, will promote anyone who pays them...

If they can get away with it.

So you either sit there and take it, or you don't. Most people are going for the latter.


I suppose there IS a third option. One could target or boycott other youtube/alphabet/google advertisement buyers, but then you'd have to inform both them and youtube/alphabet/google about your boycott in order to properly convey the message.

[unblock]

5. There were some articles about this a week ago. Massive digital ad buy

During both conventions.

He's really good at pissing away money. Especially if it doesn't come from his own bank account.


ETA: $10 million last week and another $10 million this week according to: https://www.axios.com/trump-campaign-digital-ads-gop-convention-63a44dc4-19ff-4b72-bcb2-52d2a3955af5.html

[honest.abe]

9. Yep.. all negative Biden stuff.

Its sickening and could have an impact on low info voters. The DNC needs to counter this somehow.

[Mike 03]

10. The RNC made a huge buy about two weeks ago to wallpaper social

media during the two conventions. But I was on YouTube a lot last week and saw Biden ads too.

It was really bad on the Washington Post last week. It was ridiculous. There was no escape.