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I rarely ever go on Facebook but found myself scrolling on a friends’ timeline a few days ago. One of the ads I saw, mixed among her posts as I scrolled, was fo

by kbos87 3y ago

I rarely ever go on Facebook but found myself scrolling on a friends’ timeline a few days ago. One of the ads I saw, mixed among her posts as I scrolled, was for cotton candy flavored nitrous oxide delivered to your door. This isn’t just an X/Twitter problem.

dingnuts 3y ago
yes, a family member sent me a screenshot of a Facebook ad a few days ago for "magic mushroom gummies" that contained delta-8 THC and amanita muscaria lol O.o I'm not sure amanita muscaria is actually psychoactive when taken orally (although delta-8 THC certainly is) but it was still wild to see that advertised so.. brazenly
- I_Am_Nous 3y ago
  Back in the day, I ordered some A. Muscaria mushrooms online and they weren't magical at all. I drooled a lot, took a strange mostly conscious nap, and my vision was a little blurry. Just eat Cubensis or another psylocin containing strain as Muscaria contains none of it.
- torstenvl 3y ago
  What's brazen about advertising legal products?
  - arp242 3y ago
    In many locations, even where it's legal, it's not actually legal to advertise, or can only advertise with restrictions.
hotpotamus 3y ago
Given the person-millenia years that Meta has presumably put into their ad-targeting, maybe you should give the nitrous a try; maybe they know something you don't. Or maybe they're just whores for anyone who would give them a buck, same as they ever were.
SenAnder 3y ago
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- dang 3y ago
  Can you please stop posting flamewar comments? You've been doing it a lot, unfortunately, plus it looks like you've been using HN primarily for ideological battle, which is a line at which we ban accounts (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=primarily%20test%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...). We already asked you about this twice. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: I took a closer look and your account has so clearly been using HN primarily for ideological battle that I've banned it. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.
mnd999 3y ago
I’ve had ads for drugs, cloned credit cards and devices for stealing cars with keyless entry all in the last month on a major social network. Reported, but they don’t seem to care.
- kbos87 3y ago
  I don’t know if your experience was on a Meta property, but it is interesting to think about the amount of blowback Twitter/X has received from advertisers who supposedly don’t want their ads shown next to unpalatable user generated content. But unpalatable ads next to a users posts? Sorry, no discussion about it and no recourse. Just another effect of being the product when using a free service I guess.
tharne 3y ago
What's the name of this company selling this cotton candy flavored nitrous oxide? Asking for a friend.
- llamaInSouth 3y ago
  https://creamn2o.com/ https://creamn2o.com/
  - kbos87 3y ago
    That’s the one
addicted 3y ago
Facebook isn’t a flattering comparable to any platform. It’s basically a zombie platform at this point with people only using it, minimally, out of inertia. It’s not surprising Facebook also has bottom of the barrel ads. Any decent advertiser (unless they’re advertising to old people) would probably choose Instagram for their Meta ad buys instead.

by kbos87 3y ago

dingnuts 3y ago

yes, a family member sent me a screenshot of a Facebook ad a few days ago for "magic mushroom gummies" that contained delta-8 THC and amanita muscaria lol O.o I'm not sure amanita muscaria is actually psychoactive when taken orally (although delta-8 THC certainly is) but it was still wild to see that advertised so.. brazenly

I_Am_Nous 3y ago
Back in the day, I ordered some A. Muscaria mushrooms online and they weren't magical at all. I drooled a lot, took a strange mostly conscious nap, and my vision was a little blurry. Just eat Cubensis or another psylocin containing strain as Muscaria contains none of it.
torstenvl 3y ago
What's brazen about advertising legal products?
- arp242 3y ago
  In many locations, even where it's legal, it's not actually legal to advertise, or can only advertise with restrictions.

hotpotamus 3y ago

Given the person-millenia years that Meta has presumably put into their ad-targeting, maybe you should give the nitrous a try; maybe they know something you don't. Or maybe they're just whores for anyone who would give them a buck, same as they ever were.

SenAnder 3y ago

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dang 3y ago
Can you please stop posting flamewar comments? You've been doing it a lot, unfortunately, plus it looks like you've been using HN primarily for ideological battle, which is a line at which we ban accounts (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=primarily%20test%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...). We already asked you about this twice. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: I took a closer look and your account has so clearly been using HN primarily for ideological battle that I've banned it. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

mnd999 3y ago

I’ve had ads for drugs, cloned credit cards and devices for stealing cars with keyless entry all in the last month on a major social network. Reported, but they don’t seem to care.

kbos87 3y ago
I don’t know if your experience was on a Meta property, but it is interesting to think about the amount of blowback Twitter/X has received from advertisers who supposedly don’t want their ads shown next to unpalatable user generated content. But unpalatable ads next to a users posts? Sorry, no discussion about it and no recourse. Just another effect of being the product when using a free service I guess.

tharne 3y ago

What's the name of this company selling this cotton candy flavored nitrous oxide? Asking for a friend.

llamaInSouth 3y ago
https://creamn2o.com/ https://creamn2o.com/
- kbos87 3y ago
  That’s the one

addicted 3y ago

Facebook isn’t a flattering comparable to any platform. It’s basically a zombie platform at this point with people only using it, minimally, out of inertia. It’s not surprising Facebook also has bottom of the barrel ads. Any decent advertiser (unless they’re advertising to old people) would probably choose Instagram for their Meta ad buys instead.