I have seen so many ads on YouTube and so far it was either scam or propaganda.
And I don't think any of these are nearly as bad as the ones trying to sell you on some purported absurdly large arbitrage on crypto markets. I've also seen some for supposedly super-advanced data storage devices that I'm quite confident are scams; and bogus scam ultra-high-capacity USB keys are already all over the place to the point where they'd be a huge problem even if never advertised.
(I usually don't care as much about first-party ads like this because at least the advertiser isn't serving me custom JavaScript. And I do sometimes let these things play if I have the video on in the background.)
It's also really noticeable how you'll keep seeing the same ads for the same few things, regardless of what your "algorithm" is currently doing. I really have to wonder how much YouTube makes off those cutting board guys.
Oh yes, that's true it has been happening to me as well. Israel/Palestine propaganda fight were biggest offenders. Every 10 minutes one or the other sometimes sprinkled with a scam mobile game ad. And I don't even play mobile games...
Btw cutting on titanium cutting board is the fastest way to have dull knives. So we moved from scam to deception.
I would have thought so. But the ad explicitly claims that this helps keep them sharp, IIRC. So there might be a legal case there too....
Aren't they really just confined plasma torches though, lore-wise?
Either that or they meant "torch" as in "flashlight", which I've seen shitty lightsabers be.