so are all the #Hollywood celebrities hawking #techbro #spyware and #crypto scams, fascist collaborators or nah?

So if you thought that surveillance based ads couldn't get any worse... Meta: Hold my beer!

#Facebook #Meta #surveillance #AI #LLM #Ads

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/07/mark-zuckerbergs-ai-ad-tool-sounds-like-a-social-media-nightmare/?utm_campaign=social&utm_source=threads&utm_medium=organic

in a civilized society, hospitals wouldn't feel obligated to have #tv #ads nor #marketing budgets

WTAF? DID I HEAR THIS RIGHT? CAPITALISTS ARE ACTUALLY PEDDLING A “PRETIREMENT”?!? ARE THESE FUCKERS MOVING THE GOALPOSTS AGAIN?!?

and yes, am that yellie

UPDATE: yup. this is a thing. the ad basically made it sound like if you didn’t have an investment portfolio by now, you would never be able to retire. don’t know if it was a company peddling services or part of this ad Council industry ad.

https://thisispretirement.org/

Came across this 1990s #Honda Civic Del Sol commercial and it’s absolutely incredible. Watch closely at how the “beach towel” car morphs into a 3D car. Look at the woman’s legs as she swivels them under the windshield, or how the man operates the trunk as the kid bounces the beachball on the hood.

this is why i watch various sportsballs: the OPEC mafia have basically coopted most US sports leagues. they also are pumping up most of the AI and crypto scams.

so when you watch professional sports leagues, pay attention to the #ads :

the lastest scam being peddled on #NBA games is that trading imbalances and tariffs make the dollar weak, so put your money into #bitcoin

now you know who has been paying Trump for his #tariffs s̶c̶a̶m̶ policy. after all, he ―illegally― has his own coin.

"How to disable ACR on your TV (and why it makes such a big difference for privacy)" by @ZDNet - Automatic Content Recognition ACR runs on smart TVs to analyze screenshots of what you're watching and sell the data to advertisers without your permission. https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/home-entertainment/how-to-disable-acr-on-your-tv-and-why-it-makes-such-a-big-difference-for-privacy/ #privacy #surveillance #ads #electronics #entertainment #tech

Does anyone know how to make good looking videos out of screenshots and screen recordings? I need help and I don't know what software to use. Maybe canva but it doesn't feel right for videos

“…in 2017 The Australian alleged that the company had crafted a pitch deck for advertisers bragging that it could exploit ‘moments of psychological vulnerability’ in its users by targeting terms like ‘worthless,’ ‘insecure,’ ‘stressed,’ ‘defeated,’ " ‘anxious,’ ‘stupid,’ ‘useless,’ and ‘like a failure.’

The social media company likewise tracked when adolescent girls deleted selfies, ‘so it can serve a beauty ad to them at that moment,’ according to Wynn-Williams.”

https://futurism.com/facebook-beauty-targeted-ads

Google now displays #Ads in third-party AI Just when you thought #Google ads couldn't get more annoying, it did

Learn how to s top the ads here https://tuta.com/blog/block-gmail-ads

"Usually, AdSense ads appear in search results and are scattered around websites. Google ran a small test of chatbot ads late last year, partnering with select AI startups, including AI search apps iAsk and Liner.

The testing must have gone well because Google is now allowing more chatbot makers to sign up for AdSense. "AdSense for Search is available for websites that want to show relevant ads in their conversational AI experiences," said a Google spokesperson.

If people continue shifting to using AI chatbots to find information, this expansion of AdSense could help prop up profits. There's no hint of advertising in Google's own Gemini chatbot or AI Mode search, but the day may be coming when you won't get the clean, ad-free experience at no cost."

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/google-is-quietly-testing-ads-in-ai-chatbots/

WTF is going on with Will Ferrell’s face?

i was not prepared to see an aged Michael Cera

#Perplexity #CEO says its #browser, #Comet, will track everything users do online to sell #ads

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perplexity-ceo-says-its-browser-will-track-everything-users-do-online-to-sell-hyper-personalized-ads/

Stuff a #Pihole in your #router because your #browser is about to betray you
You could be forgiven for feeling #webbrowser suppliers are actively working to make us trust them less.
#Mozilla bought an #ad company; this month, removed its promise not to sell your info.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/08/pi_hole_6_flyby/
Mozilla sells #ads, #Google limits blocking-time for stricter measures
Pi-hole takes over as your network name server, and silently redirects all web requests to known ad-server addresses to a #DNS sinkhole.

Threads launched ads. Bluesky next?

We all know THE place to be without tracking or ads.

News: TechCrunch | Meta’s Threads opens up ads to global advertisers

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/23/metas-threads-opens-up-ads-to-global-advertisers/

"Meta on Wednesday announced that its Instagram #Threads app would now expand #ads to all advertisers worldwide. The expansion will allow eligible advertisers to reach Threads’ over 320 million monthly active users... the new ad placement within the Threads feed will be switched on by default"