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    539 points donohoe | 11 comments | | HN request time: 1.204s | source | bottom
    1. nikolayasdf123 ◴[] No.44520146[source]
    ads.x.com is the worst platform to run ads. not surprised
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    2. daveguy ◴[] No.44520688[source]
    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.
    3. froggertoaster ◴[] No.44520725[source]
    The lack of controls on anything related to ad running is astounding. How they make money at all blows my mind.
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    4. CaptainZapp ◴[] No.44520980[source]
    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...

    5. CydeWeys ◴[] No.44521459[source]
    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.

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    6. mucha ◴[] No.44521839[source]
    That's actually an ad for X Premium+. No embarrassing ads!
    7. fourside ◴[] No.44521980[source]
    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.

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    8. duped ◴[] No.44522703{3}[source]
    People are literally addicted to it, this is like expecting smokers to stop smoking because it's bad for them.
    9. some-guy ◴[] No.44522887{3}[source]
    Dumpster fires are unfortunately entertaining.
    10. qchris ◴[] No.44523780{3}[source]
    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.

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    11. mildzebrataste ◴[] No.44523976{4}[source]
    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.”