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   Dave Rahardja (drahardja@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 11:07:59 JST Dave Rahardja

   I think I’ve stopped using #Facebook hard enough (I still use it to visit Groups) that I’ve now fallen firmly into “generic user” category for ads.

   And the majority of ads I receive are…guns and gun-related paraphernalia, Christian nationalist-adjacent jewelry, and pro-Trump-branded products.

   Whenever I click on “why am I seeing this ad?” the only criteria they ever display is “18+ and living in the US”. So I guess that’s what most US Facebook customers see these days, by default.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 10-May-2025 11:09:00 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @drahardja
     Years ago, I spent 15 minutes clicking on the 3rd or 4th Facebook ad, over and over.

     Not the first. Just a few ads down. “Hey, algorithm, you don’t •quite• have me pegged!”

     And…yeah, it went all guns alarmingly fast.