• Otter@lemmy.ca
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    Those ads don’t even look like they’re useful to anyone, they’re like the “He figured out how to download a car. Doctors hate him!” ads from a decade ago

    just why

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      Bots advertising to bots, like Facebook

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      Maybe it’s a kind of dummy content for the test phase? Pretty sure too many people blocked ads and this is their solution

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        No real brand wants to advertise on his platform anymore, so he’s serving dogshit ads like this now, to the first people who pay. It’s not a conspiracy

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          Yep, we’re about six months away from Elon Musk personally hawking snake-oil diet supplements and survivalist gear to doomsday preppers a lá Alex Jones. Heck, once Alex Jones’ bankruptcy proceedings are finished, Elon can just buy out his stock, cross out Info and sell them as “ElonWars Supplements.

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          Yes but the question is why would anyone pay for ads like that? How is that investment going to make any sense?