advertisers can say anything, but your content must follow the rules

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Blåhaj Lemmy - Choose Your Interface

“ads are based on your activity” they say. I like biology and I am frequently engaging in biology related topics on the internet, yet they keep spamming me with gambling ads, israel army recruitment ads (yes these are a thing!), and occasionally the hot girl mobile games, all ads I literally did not ask for. Everything except biology.
Sanity check: are you sure you didn’t turn off ad personalization at some point and these are just the standard issue ads that get shown to most people?

I know this sounds crazy but I’m pretty sure those that go through the effort of blocking personalized ads are statistically higher to be consumers of anime thirst traps and gambling if ever interacting with them.

My accounts that have tracking enabled I get “normal” ads but if I have any kind of privacy on the device it defaults to enticing the lowest common denominator. Which makes sense from an engagement standpoint.