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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've also noticed some sites displaying totally unrelated videos above their news articles. Extremely weird

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Google got in trouble recently for running ads on these videos. Advertisers would pay for a YouTube ad and it would only run on these random videos in the corner of the screen on click bait websites.