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30mag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Ozymati@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I went on Edge, logged into Facebook, then proceeded to google various horse related things and visit the resulting websits. Now my ads are all about horses. I don’t own a horse, never been especially into them. But they’re nice and inoffensive in my feed.

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  • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    LifeProTip

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  • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Have you tried adblocker?

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    • Ozymati@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Using umatrix. Difficulty is these are the ads presented as part of the feed so they’re difficult to block. Like the promoted posts on reddit.

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• ineedaunion@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Dang I need some of those mushrooms and ketamine microdosing.

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  • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mushroom spores are legal. The ketamine shit might, in some cases, be legit but won’t be covered by insurance.

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    • ineedaunion@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah I’ve looked into the ketamine treatments. $2800

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  • 30mag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mindbloom advertises ketamine microdosing. I can’t imagine that it isn’t either a scam or a honeypot.

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    • EnderWi99in@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It's not a honeypot. It's a genuine company. I am not sure if what they do is actually helping anyone but to my knowledge the treatments are pretty expensive.

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• EnderWi99in@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah I get a lot of those as well. Anxiety, ADHD, and autism stuff mostly. I keep shooting down the ads as I suffer from none of these things. No idea why it keeps pushing that crap.

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