The Tumblr-clone I use for porn has been feeding me the same (rather gross) heterosexual ads for so long I finally added every available list to my PiHole so they're finally gone. Good job morons. Couldn't even figure out how to show a gay guy cock.
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2026
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Well no, wealth concentration works neatly, ads work, they sell you stuff or quietly form your opinion.
Yes, I know, I know, "doesn't work on me, I'm literally immune to ads", but it's really naive & actually stupid to pretend that the system that works above design expectations "doesn't work".
Ads work on all of us bcs they are made to work on human brains specifically. For huge teams of ppl that is the sole goal of their jobs. They aren't paid for nothing.
(Also yes, all them go into my dns sinkholes & ad blockers, but they do work on the vast majority of my fellow humans which in turn affect my life greatly on a lot of levels.)
The oligarchs are benefiting from this system because they’re being open about creating a police state with a dictator and a fuedal system
I still get ads on Youtube on my TV, and it's mindboggling how bad they are. Google literally has years of my search history (before I switched to DDG), and it still doesn't understand that I'm vegan and not interested in any products that are not vegan. Putting on my tinfoil hat, I think it's just a massive data collection ruse masked as "personalized ads".
They realized they had to become profitable somehow or else people wouldn't stand for the environmental impact of it, so they made AI.