The canonical example of SkyMall equivalence for me is wish.com ads. They're odd enough that they're frequently clipped and commented on - https://www.google.com/search?q=wish+ads
Instagram Has Become SkyMall
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#102I would just like to take this opportunity to post these screenshots I took over the past 2 days: https://imgur.com/a/SLrJaUJ I am surprised by just how many ads for drugs I get. They know their audience. But still. Lots of ads for testosterone, growth hormone, and now ketamine.
I only use insta in the browser on my phone, which is quite a nice watered down experience that doesn't show ads (even without an ad blocker) or annoying account suggestions.
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Are you using the app or browser? I just use Safari on iOS and I only follow my two kids and I just go back years of posts and there’s nothing from strangers on there.
I’m using the app on iOS if that makes a difference…
It does! The native apps show a plethora of ads while the web app shows nothing. Crazy interesting but I imagine most users use the app.
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#104One day, someone will have the courage to build a paid-for social media platform and we can put all this nonsense behind us.
Re: Instagram Has Become SkyMall
#105I would just like to take this opportunity to post these screenshots I took over the past 2 days: https://imgur.com/a/SLrJaUJ I am surprised by just how many ads for drugs I get. They know their audience. But still. Lots of ads for testosterone, growth hormone, and now ketamine.
IG is a gateway drug
To?
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Similar to endisneigh I take as many steps as I possibly can to avoid letting advertising influence me. I block ads wherever possible, and anything that slips through goes on a shit-list of companies that I will avoid buying from unless I have no other choice.
So if you see an ad about something, you never recommend it. Sounds like you let advertising influence you quite a bit.
Sure, if you're going to insist on an overly literal reading of my words.
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Why can't you block them?
Presumably using the app? The thing I hate most is if I click on search it starts autoplaying some random thing that has no relevance to my social circles, until I start typing my search query (usually just trying to find a friend or an account I already follow).
Yep, the explore page always turns up some barely clad women.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you using the app or browser? I just use Safari on iOS and I only follow my two kids and I just go back years of posts and there’s nothing from strangers on there.
I’m using the app on iOS if that makes a difference…
You might be using one of those tabs that I never go to. The leftmost tab with the home icon only shows posts from people you follow (and ads).
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#109Before I completely dropped social media, I had a f—k the algorithm attitude towards the ads. I made a point of clicking through everything that was completely uninteresting to me. That road led to a non-stop flood of class-action lawyer ads.
It's interesting how this exposes the dynamics of ad-space.
Advertisements as points in a metric space A. Clicking ads as a contractive mapping C:A->A. Class-action lawsuit ads as a fixed point in A when iterating C.
This must imply something interesting about human psychology or ad economics, or both. Why does the fixed point end up as class action suits and not something else? It's not what I would have expected.
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#110The ads, like on YouTube, are getting unbearable. And this time you can’t even block them
Why can't you block them?
Some time ago YT and other majors started serving ads from the same domains as content, so it's become much more difficult to reliably block them.
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