# Political propaganda on Youtube.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-propaganda-on-youtube/689206>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 24, 2014, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-propaganda-on-youtube/689206 "2014-05-24T20:18:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2014, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-propaganda-on-youtube/689206/1 "2014-05-24T20:18:36Z")

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Wooh! Before a video on youtube, I saw a 10 minutes long add. But not a regular add. Ten minutes of speech by Putin justifying the reunion of Crimea and Russia. Never had seen something like that.

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-propaganda-on-youtube/689206/2 "2014-05-25T00:18:45Z")

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So what? Scott Walker’s campaign has been running Youtube ads for months trashing a woman who’s probably his next opponent for governor.

I saw it just about every fucking day, leading me to think that they might be triggered by my demographics (a Wisconsin resident). I haven’t seen the Putin ad, so maybe he’s trying harder to convince Europeans, or the French in particular.

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**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-propaganda-on-youtube/689206/3 "2014-05-25T02:27:11Z")

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> [@clairobscur](#):
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> Wooh! Before a video on youtube, I saw a 10 minutes long add.

Was there a way to leave the ad after the first 30 seconds or so?

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**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/political-propaganda-on-youtube/689206/4 "2014-05-25T02:46:15Z")

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> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> So what? Scott Walker’s campaign has been running Youtube ads for months trashing a woman who’s probably his next opponent for governor.

I had never seen any kind of political add on youtube, only for cars, games, insurances, or whatever. Let alone a foreign propaganda add. I found this extremely weird.

> [@Telemark](#):
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> Was there a way to leave the ad after the first 30 seconds or so?

I’m certain there was. I listened it to the end, though.