Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

ads.x.com is the worst platform to run ads. not surprised

But it is one of the only places you can pay to have your message delivered next to messages from Hitler bots and coup plotters. So... there's that.

The lack of controls on anything related to ad running is astounding. How they make money at all blows my mind.

Why, By suing their advertisers, of course.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/01/nx-s1-5283271/elon-musk-lawsu...

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/x-twitter-ad-revenue-camp...

I curate a relatively tame Twitter feed, but X has been showing me animated advertisements of some fleshlight-like device going to town on a dildo. W. T. A. F.

It's started making me worried that I can't even use the app in a place where anyone else is, lest someone shoulder surf that and wonder WTF I'm looking at.

That's actually an ad for X Premium+. No embarrassing ads!

It continues to surprise me how much people insist on using this platform after everything that’s happened in the last couple of years.

It’s like having dinner at a restaurant that you know is owned by a mafia boss and then being surprised when you get robbed while you eat there.

People are literally addicted to it, this is like expecting smokers to stop smoking because it's bad for them.

Dumpster fires are unfortunately entertaining.

I totally get the point you're trying to make (and don't even disagree) but I think the analogy isn't quite right.

I'd actually be surprised if I got robbed at a mobbed-up restaurant; my naive understanding was that they actual put a lot of effort into keeping places like that above-board so they have legit businesses to attach their name/revenue/employees to, while still retaining muscle in case a rival tries something. It's arguably one of the last places I'd expected to get robbed outright.

It’s like when you’re having dinner at a restaurant owned by the mob and act surprised when the owner pays for your meal because “you look like such nice girls.”