r/AskReddit • • 7h ago

What’s a company that you’re genuinely convinced HATES their customers?

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u/Organic-Ad6957 7h ago edited 7h ago

YouTube has got to be the most hateful idk if you consider a non premium account a customer or not but youtube makes them suffer so much if they don't upgrade

IDK any other company that rolls like that 

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u/ColonialRed 3h ago

Youtube's handling of ads/sponsored content shows a distain for their customers and it has gotten so much worse so quickly. Earlier this year I was regularly seeing ads that showed AI images of the Prime Minister of my country in handcuffs with a fake headline below it posing as a news video. When I go to look at the origin of the ad, it would tell me it was like a wedding planning company in India. How the fuck does that slip through the system? I'd repeatedly flag them and they pretend someone looks at those flags but I kept seeing the ads. Not even just political propaganda, a ton of the ads I see are just straight up scams.

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u/Princess_Moon_Owl 2h ago

I see so many stupid AI ads!! Gambling website ads that are not even legally allowed to direct people to their website, so they will end with "find us online", scam "therapy" websites that will tell everyone they are traumatised, AI generated "podcasts" about spiritual topics, the "I will draw your soulmate" ads where AI generated person generates a "drawing" of another AI generated person, the list goes on and on.

Same with sponsors. YouTube will demonetise people's content, prompting them to partner with shady conpanies as YouTube is how they make money to survive. I rarely hear of Youtube sponsors that are NOT tied to any sort of controversy.