lucky 😮💨 all mine are weight loss scams and laptop deals
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I may or may not have acquired exactly the acid in those pics.
I definitely did not.
Or did I?
It looks identical actually and I’m willing to bet it came from the same place.
If I actually had it that is.
Where I live it’s largely the same though on facebook marketplace and not on instagram. Counterfeit money, weapons (which are almost completely illegal where I live, even basic non-lethal things like pepper spray and tasers) and more than anything prostitution. The thing is, these are “sponsored ads” which are all supposedly screened and approved manually. Also you can report them and Facebook won’t take them down.
Before someone suggests it cause I’ve seen this response a couple times in this thread already: No, I am not searching those things or related products on Facebook or elsewhere on the web.
Also Met’s estimate that only 1 out of every 2000 ads violates their policy is straight up laughable. There’s no way they themselves believe that. I would say at least 25% of the ads I see are of this nature. Literally dozens a day.
We thought they would use crime prediction for putting us to jail, but instead they just advertise
stop following rap/hip-hop artists
Well sir. Given that the algorhythm designed for procuring that content is literally the best at its job bar none. And having also had personal experience with this. One of two things or both is happening. #1 you like to partake in partying and you seek that out sometimes. And the software knows that. #2 you associate with drugs dealers who are in your social media circles.
Let’s be clear. This content isnt shown to you just because. Its being shown to you because you have displayed a pattern of seeking where these items come into play or you talk to people who regularly engage in this.
I’m a 28 year old man. I have never been shown a targeted advertisement for feminine hygiene products. Also I had never seen advertisements on social media for literal drugs and shit until I went thru a phase where I developed a pretty bad coke habit for a while and had a lot of dealers in my phone.
I’m sorry, but I don’t buy that 100%. To an extent maybe, but there are ads that get presented to me sometimes that is just wild out of the blue and I’m like what the fuck. I didn’t do anything to suggest. I might like this at all. So I can understand what this person saying
It could just be that they work in a kitchen.
You should read the article.
You assume that the algorithm works perfectly. It does not. Sometimes, the data points it connects on people is “male person living in Kansas” and just serve you ads with those keywords. Which means one day you see an ad for Cheerios, the next day you see an ad for your local crystal meth store.
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All my Twitter ads are just about AI images.
Which is especially funny, given the countdown until that’s no longer a market. It’s like using a refrigerator to sell ice.
ITT: People who are so quick to suggest ad blockers they miss the point of the conversation.
You sound like you love to see ads, otherwise why the fuck are you not blocking them using extensions?
You can’t block ads in a app. This should be common knowledge.
Instander.
Is that Homelander’s Instagram?
Hahahahaha, no lol. It’s a “fork” of instagram with some quality of life improvements (and no-ads)
You can just patch it
Joke is on you, stop using the app.
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You sound like you didn’t read the article. This not about seeing ads or not, it’s about large corporations allowing and making profits off advertising criminal activities.
allowing and making profits off advertising criminal activities.
You mean the same ones that could be easily blocked by extensions so none of us would be talking about it right now and giving them more clicks? you clearly missed the point.
I didn’t miss the point, the point is not about seeing ads or not. Expand your thought process a bit.
I don’t use Instagram altogether, this isn’t about me. The main audience of Instagram (and other Meta platforms) are teens, whom you should not expose to such advertisements. Some are not tech literate and are capable of blocking Meta’s ads on a DNS level or with some other trickery. Look at the broader audience, this isn’t a “Me” post.
No relation to Instagram, this is about the internet as a whole, no one ever should be online without at least 5 adblocking extensions.
Yes, ignore the root problem and instead cover it with a bandaid solution.
If someone had a cut on their leg that had turned black and smelled like rancid meat, would you just tell them that no one should go out in public without pants and deodorant?
Now here’s the exact problem with the so called “personalized” ads, that Google and Facebook serves what the advertisers think you want to see, instead of what you actually want to see.
This is the fundamental conflict of interest which the obvious conclusion is that online banner/video advertisements doesn’t work, and has never worked, because ultimately, no matter how many times you shove ads in people’s faces via a thoughtless machine, you can’t “trick” people into liking something. What people want is thoughtful, sincere recommendations by real people, which is why we have seen the rise of sassy brand Twitter accounts being so successful for a time: because there is a real person behind it.
(Of course, it’s really funny if you take blatant advertisment to its logical extreme, and even that seemed more effective.)
Of course, Google and Facebook will never admit that they’ve been lying to everyone and themselves for more than a decade, because to do so is to admit that their entire business of Web 2.0 was built on an absurd and illogical premise of again, if you show people ads for things they never asked for a thousand times, then you can brainwash them into liking something.
In other words, Google and Facebook’s entire advertisment business model, if you really think about it, is really no different than pick-up artist logic, and. They. Just. Won’t. Go. Away.
Pretty much every industry works by tricking people into liking things.
Like the razors with four+ blades on them, people buy them cause the commercials say “more blades is better”.
People wouldn’t seek out extra blades if they weren’t tricked into liking it. They are objectively worse than single blade razors.
Exactly. If it didn’t pay off these companies wouldn’t keep shoveling money to Facebook and Google to show their ads time and time again. Marketing is expensive. If it didn’t at least break even then nobody would be doing it anymore by now. Obviously it works, otherwise I wouldn’t ever know what the fuck a squarespace or a goddamn raid shadow legends is.
Turns out though you can absolutely trick them into believing conspiracy theories with social media ads.
Learn the TRUTH about this thing you’re already primed for by your bias!
click
Holy crap! He’s a alien! U cud tell frum the eyez! 👁️👁️👀👽
You can absolutely trick people into liking drugs too
Fuuuuuuck the Sacklers.
The ads that I mind the least and the ones I find the most effective are sponsors for creators that I like. Short sponsor segments really don’t annoy me as much and I have actually tried a couple products that have advertised that way.
That said, almost all of them sucked in the end but that’s another subject entirely.
I’m trying to kick an opiate habit and seeing that I can buy them on Instagram is not helping
If it helps, there’s a 99.9% chance they just take your money and not send any drugs
That’s exactly why I’ve never actually tried one of these things. I had someone on Reddit message me once and give me a dude’s telegraph info and it was so obviously a scam.
The dude asked what I wanted and I said something really vague and he immediately said “okay how many” without clarifying. Then when I didn’t respond, he sent a screenshot of allll his notifications from messages he was getting from “happy customers”
Preamble to the shitty internet bills that will get passed on a holiday weekend at 2am?
Wtf does their browser history look like to be getting those sorts of ads?!
In the article he states that he kept clicking on those ads on purpose, in order to see how deep the rabbit hole goes.
I would be very curious to see the algorithm adapting to that:
User: click on shrooms ad
AI: Oh he likes shrooms with his cocaine! Let’s try a marijuana to snort with his cocaine.
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I saw that double post ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
These are probably the “random” ads iPhone users get because of the “Ask not to track” feature.
Asking tech giants to start policing people sounds like it can get bad really quickly…but at the same time letting them do nothing also sounds terrible
How the fuck is vetting the ads on their platform “policing” people?
That’s an interesting take.
These companies are accepting money from criminal enterprises to advertise criminal enterprises.
You don’t need them to police people, you need them to stop being overt criminals themselves.
Exactly. Meta is an accomplice to all these crimes! Why do so many of the folks in this thread and elsewhere fail to realize that?!
I don’t see a problem. Shroom time babey
You don’t see a problem when Instagram’s target market is teens and young people?
Did you miss the part where the ads were offering things like stolen credit card info and unregistered firearms, too?
