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  • @KommandoGZD@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    Lmao what the hell. I was just watching a video on the Ukraine situation by a ‘Pro-Russian’ account and one of the ad-breaks was a spot by the BBC on Russian atrocities in Kharkov region and Ukraine’s massive success there. I wasn’t really watching the video, but just listening to it, so in the middle of the video it just switched and a British commentator started talking about these supposed massacres. Super weird.

    I swear this is the first time this happened. Is this something new?

    • @Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
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      132 years ago

      Could be good ol’ TsIPSO. Back when SMO had started, we here in Russia constantly got Ukrainian propaganda in ads. Want to play game on your smartphone? Here’s Zelensky calling for the hostilities to stop. Watching YouTube without AdBlock? Here’s some footage of a bombed out building and a soulful voice asking if this is what you support.

    • commet-alt-w
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      42 years ago

      this gets worse with mobile devices and systems like alexa which are ALWAYS listening. talk about something oitloud, get ads about it. technology is an arm of the national security state. /your phone is a cop/. this is why i really appreciated some of cyberpunk culture which was about repurposing technology, and solarpunk messaging which was about reclaiming technology.

      this type of micro targeting has been a cia wet dream for a while