Perfectly fitting ad from the Politico article
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2024
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Wow the ads. I assumed everyone was already using some sort of ad blocker.
They probably should, ads are super annoying.
And malicious, they spy on you, infect you with malware, and amount to about half of web traffic, causing insane emissions, 20 times that of crypto.
Tucker Carlson is not strictly speaking considered an ad, although he probably should
It's the in-app browser. Otherwise I do.
You can switch it to default to your browser (hopefully with ad blocking) of choice.
These are the exact kind of targeted ads I see when I disable my adblock. I'm a white male in rural Kentucky so I guess advertisers assume I watch Tucker Carlson and buy trucks (as if I could even afford one).
It's at least an assurance that I've been successful at protecting my privacy enough that advertisers don't know specifics beyond my surface-level demographics.
In other news, the sky is blue.
This fact is obvious to anyone with basic critical thinking skills. The problem is that there's a huge portion of the US population that's been lied to by a group of corporate media as a reaction to the public backlash over Watergate that resulted in Nixon's resignation. A portion of the media has been utilizing Amygdala Hijacking to force emotional reactions via fear responses to misinformation for 40+ years. People are scared about threats that doesn't actually exist and are actively working against their own self-interest due to those non-existent threats, regardless of any counter proof. They weren't reasoned into being fearful of the thing, so reason can't get them back out of it.
I really hope Trump goes and gets bombed by a Russian drone or something