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The biggest media corporations are allowed to advertise literal crime. Meanwhile saying the word cigarette on tv will get you jail time.

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Smoke

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Are you smoking yet?

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I am smoking. Inside.

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I don’t see a problem. Shroom time babey

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You don’t see a problem when Instagram’s target market is teens and young people?

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Did you miss the part where the ads were offering things like stolen credit card info and unregistered firearms, too?

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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

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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.

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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?!

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How the fuck is vetting the ads on their platform “policing” people?

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How does that do anything for the problem the author writes about, though? They’re not complaining about their own feed being spammed with this stuff, they’re complaining that it’s so rampant in the first place and that Meta does little to nothing to prevent it.

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How does that do anything for the problem the author writes about?

Nothing, but hopefully it’s helpful for anyone that reads it

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How would Revanced help with IG ads? (Sincere question - I’m occasionally on IG and the ads are obnoxious. )

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I tried that. Got it installed with default settings and looked no different. Half my feed is suggested bullshit.

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After all, you are using Instagram… Just without promoted ads

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Wtf does their browser history look like to be getting those sorts of ads?!

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In the article he states that he kept clicking on those ads on purpose, in order to see how deep the rabbit hole goes.

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I saw that double post ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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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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