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YouTube Premium Is Not Ad-Free as Advertised, Class Action Lawsuit Claims (www.classaction.org)

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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Technically the "often skipped" section is the sponsored content.
But I suspect this is fed through user behaviour and not content detection

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[–] Akrenion@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

It's also not mandatory labeling of ads. Which YouTube could force on their creating users and should for consumer protection.

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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

And they have tools available to mark the video as "sponsored"

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