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RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
Wed Aug 26, 2020, 10:10 PM Aug 2020

The number of Trump ads and Biden bashing ads I'm getting on youtube on Roku on the TV

is incredible. Just about anytime I do a youtube video you're forced to watch a Trump ad. Now, you can't even stop them, and then they are followed by a Biden bashing ad. The GOP must have given Google a real bundle of money.

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The number of Trump ads and Biden bashing ads I'm getting on youtube on Roku on the TV (Original Post) RKP5637 Aug 2020 OP
I'm getting Biden ads. Also a bunch for the DSCC. nycbos Aug 2020 #1
Hardly anything here for the dems at all. And these are all "fear" ads. ... many showing Biden RKP5637 Aug 2020 #2
Yes, YouTube is swamped with them captain queeg Aug 2020 #3
That algorithm is fucking weird. Codeine Aug 2020 #4
Yeah, it is, that algorithm is all over the place. n/t RKP5637 Aug 2020 #8
What do you expect? calguy Aug 2020 #5
Millions in rubles passed through the NRA again? keithbvadu2 Aug 2020 #6
Where ever he got it, he's got boatloads of cash. calguy Aug 2020 #7

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
2. Hardly anything here for the dems at all. And these are all "fear" ads. ... many showing Biden
Wed Aug 26, 2020, 10:14 PM
Aug 2020

looking like an idiot/doctored ... and then supposedly a gallant tRump.

 

Codeine

(25,586 posts)
4. That algorithm is fucking weird.
Wed Aug 26, 2020, 10:28 PM
Aug 2020

I get no political ads at all except an occasional Prager U ad, and those have dropped off a lot. OTOH, I get car ads all day, which means YouTube clearly doesn’t know my bank balance.

My queer 16 year old daughter gets a MILLION Trump ads, even though she can’t vote and she hates Republicans with a terrifying intensity.

Makes no sense.

calguy

(5,325 posts)
5. What do you expect?
Wed Aug 26, 2020, 10:28 PM
Aug 2020

This is campaign season. Trump has boatloads of cash. He's going to spend it. A lot of it on ads. Get used to it. It ends on Nov November Third.

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