YOUTUBE IS AN EVIL COMPANY!!!!
Youtube started more openly displaying that it values Profit over user safety trough their ads, regardless of morality and ethics. If I could give them zero stars, I would. Despite explicitly requesting to opt out of alcohol and gambling ads (I dont drink nor gamble!!!!!!), YouTube continues to push them onto your YouTube experience constantly if you're 18+. It is absolutely disgusting that a platform of this scale chooses to hyper-aggresively promote addictive behaviors like gambling and alcohol through deliberate aggressive ads generation restricted to predominantly the most harmful niches (Gambling and alcohol). The ''switch-off'' setting in the Youtube Centre, is nothing more than a look good/protect the company from being sued exercise (IT DOES NOTHING!! YOU STILL GET THE EXACT SAME AMOUNT OF HARMFUL ADS, JUST DIFFERENT GAMBLING AND ALCOHOL PROVIDERS) By forcing commercials for harmful, addictive services onto users, YouTube is actively contributing to severe financial and health problems. In other words: they dont mind the harm to people their health if it means they can profit of it! Their excuse/justification ? "ads help to keep YouTube free". Yeah Right, what a joke!!! because a multi- hundred billion dollar company still needs ads to keep its service free?? Right!!. The platform has truly sunk to the lowest depths of the barrel, showing its true colors as a corporate entity, that just like the other ''digital crooks'' care nothing for online safety or inflicting long term harm on people or its own community guidelines. YouTube is clearly willing to bend, deviate from, and completely reinvent the interpretation of its own policy guidelines whenever it suits their profit margins. Yet, when they need to protect their public image and reputation, they feed the public a complete lie about caring for user well-being. This is distasteful, disgraceful, and a total atrocity especially for vulnerable populations, individuals on low incomes, and those struggling with poverty, former/pre-existing addictions or recovery. Fix your ad-targeting system and stop exploiting your users for profit.