Despite committing to dismantling systemic racism, YouTube blocks advertisers from using many racial justice and cultural identity terms to target videos for ads
It’s too bad Google didn’t comment. It could be a complicated policy (as opposed to implementation) that in part would involve preventing attackers from identifying minority targets via invasive GA categorisation algos. They are facing this challenge right now with w3c privacy reviews of FLoC.
For this investigation, we sought to learn whether advertisers could use Google Ads to find social justice videos on which to advertise.
It’s too bad Google didn’t comment. It could be a complicated policy (as opposed to implementation) that in part would involve preventing attackers from identifying minority targets via invasive GA categorisation algos. They are facing this challenge right now with w3c privacy reviews of FLoC.