To kick it up a notch, I get some of these same ads or same-style ads just trying to enjoy entertainment or music on YouTube. Evidently, yhe YouTube algorithm knows that I live in a very conservative part of the United States, and they feed me those kind of ads.

I mean, I'll be watching a video about a family yachting in the South Pacific, snorkeling and looking at sharks or something, and I'll get an ad about buying the perfect holster to conceal my gun in. Or not about buying the perfect investment opportunity that the government doesn't want me to know about. And just tons and tons and tons of snake-oil cure ads. Oh, and adds talking about how transgender people are destroying our nation.

It's almost enough to put me off watching the things I want to watch. Fortunately, I can usually dismiss the ads after only a few seconds, but not always.

I don't understand how some of the ads are legal. I guess the lawyers make sure they hew to the jot and tittle of the law in every little detail. Maybe they're careful not to make concrete claims. But the medical and investments ads especially are pushing broadly untruthful claims that managers at YouTube must recognize as untruthful.

With me consuming no conspiracy or conservative content on YouTube, I can only imagine what kind of ads actual conservative people are receiving.