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On FB I’m getting ads for drugs. It used to be subtle, now it’s just “we have the purest cocaine” with photos and everything. It seems like filtering ads in gen

by brap 3y ago

On FB I’m getting ads for drugs. It used to be subtle, now it’s just “we have the purest cocaine” with photos and everything. It seems like filtering ads in general is a difficult problem.

JshWright 3y ago
I think it's less a case of it being difficult and more a case of there being little to no incentive (in the short term, anyway) to do a good job of it. Fake/illegal ads pay the same as real ads
- moolcool 3y ago
  > I think it's less a case of it being difficult Pff, you can moderate content of people who are paying you money. Surely each of these is getting reported like crazy as well.
  - JshWright 3y ago
    I’m sure they are, and I suspect any specific instance gets removed eventually, but every extra hour that takes is extra impressions the advertiser is paying for.
bryanrasmussen 3y ago
It is difficult to get Google to fix something when their income depends on it remaining broken.
- brap 3y ago
  Their income depends on the platform being popular, which means they should (and they do) try to keep it clean
  - Nextgrid 3y ago
    They have a monopoly so they don't have to care about keeping it clean.
ballenf 3y ago
I'm sure Zuckerberg will get the same sentence as Ulbricht.