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There is a new trick a lot of them are using on YT. Basically it will be a person doing a 'vlog'. But it is mostly just kind of feel good stuff. But in the middle they will mention some product that made whatever they are blathering about feel better with the coinvent link in the description. Then they finish the video.

I have seen a bunch of these. It is a wildly subtle way to get referral points. As the AI part is making it supper easy to mill these things out.

The most wild one I have seen is the 'ai scott adams'. The tone is in the right ballpark. Still a little odd but looking better after their first few attempts. I expect soon it will drop random adverts here and there. With the long con being getting people to watch it, then farm them.

by api12 hours ago|

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The best are the one trick doctors don’t tell you or the thing THEY don’t want you to know about.

A lot of scams and cons are deliberately stupid looking and absurd to pre-select for gullible marks.

It’s also why goofy conspiritainment shows are loaded with ads for quack medicines. Anyone who thinks we didn’t go to the moon will probably buy herbal dick pills.

by Sharlin11 hours ago|

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I was always a bit confused by the "doctors don't want you to know about" line until I understood that it's in a rather US-centric cultural context where doctors are seen as just wanting your money. Though there's probably also the idea that practitioners of mainstream Western medicine are hostile to "alternative" remedies and don't want you to try the latter even assuming that they're actually effective.

I suppose that, ironically, well-intentioned doctors would indeed prefer that people not know about these "tricks" and other medical scams.

by hn-acct11 hours ago|

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I tried clicking one of those just to see and it didn’t even go to the alleged product but instead a landing page with even more of those ads! Shocking, I know :)

by api10 hours ago|

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I wonder how many of them are basically click fraud to get money from ad networks.