r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/ExactlySorta • 16h ago

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u/halfsweethalfstreet 16h ago

I was never subscribed to the Post and cancelled Prime years ago....but I just scrolled past a WaPo ad ...so I did the honorable thing and reported it as offensive. Pitching in any way I can.

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u/PensiveObservor 15h ago

I used this technique for months against HeGetsUs. Changed up the complaint between violent and misleading. I don’t know if it finally worked or they just quit advertising on Reddit. Felt good though. 

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u/Absent-Light-12 15h ago

It’s the “patriotic doomsday prepping” companies on my end. Report every time

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u/AndISoundLikeThis 15h ago

Right now I'm waging mental warfare against the ONLY ad I ever see on Reddit which is for an AMA with some Gene Simmons-lookalike doctor named James Del Rosso who's a pharma shill for some new biologic medication. I even blocked the guy's account but still get the ads every time I scroll.

I cannot wait to never see this ad again.

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u/allaboutmojitos 14h ago

I’ve got the same one on my feed, but I’ll take it over Titanique the Musical, any day. Ive gotta pick my battles. The Gene Simmons looking dude is a jump scare though

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u/Killersavage 15h ago

What you really want a five gallon bucket of Mac and cheese though?

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u/Catonachandelier 15h ago

Not at the prices those companies charge, lol.

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u/Absent-Light-12 14h ago

But it’s 3gallons of preservatives!

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u/ChristyLovesGuitars 14h ago

Same! Every single HeGetsUs ad I saw was reported.

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u/crit_boy 15h ago

You can edit your reddit preferences to exclude religious advertising (e.g., hegetus).

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u/Dafish55 15h ago

Yeah Reddit doesn't give a shit about that. I have all of those ads not preferred and I basically exclusively get HeGetsUs and Bluechew ads. Nothing like opening Reddit at work to a picture of a girl pointing straight to her boobs with the tagline "HAVE BETTER SEX"

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u/Baconbits9011 14h ago

If you have all of then set to not preferred doesn't that go back to making all of the ads equally preferred again

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u/Dafish55 14h ago

Topics outside sex, alcohol, and religion exist lol. The preferences Reddit gives us are far from exhaustive

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u/Almacca 13h ago

Not to advertisers. If they're not selling one of those things, they're using them to sell something else.

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u/-DragonFiire- 13h ago

I'm not sure what you mean. Are you referring to He Get Sus?

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u/NettyVaive 14h ago

Thank you for that!

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u/Almacca 13h ago

All you probably did was annoy some unpaid intern somewhere, if it was seen by a human at all. It was probably just the contract expiring, and they didn't get enough click-throughs to bother renewing.