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Meta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female Politicians (www.wired.com)
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[โ€“] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Ads are basically how all the bad things on the internet propagate. I do not understand the people that are technically savvy but do not run ad blockers in 2026. I wish the companies showing the ads were actually held accountable for what the ads showed so maybe they would care about shit like this.

[โ€“] eldebryn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You have no idea how convoluted and over engineered the ad serving tech is on Facebook/Meta. It's basically an arms race against ad blockers.

Unless I'm mistaken, Ublock Origin recently admitted that they basically just can't allocate resource trying to fight Facebook's ad system.