I’m 60 years old and I’m tired of seeing ads for boner pills and bras on social media. To protect children and anyone else who is tired of this content, social media should be forced to categorize advertising content on a scale similar to Movie Ratings or the way movies used to be rated. Family, PG-13, PG, R, X with anything related to boner pills and half-naked people modeling bras and underwear given an R rating. Then force companies to allow users to filter out ads based on the rating system. This would allow people to easily remove this content from their feeds. I’ve tried removing the ads and the advertisers, but every time you get rid of one company, 3 more appear.
In addition, it would be even better if users were allowed to rate ads and posts. For example, if I get an ad for a boner pill, I could flag it as being R or X information. If an ad gets 10 or more flags, it gets re-catorgized to a more accurate category.
Opt-out means if you do nothing you will still get them. Opt-IN means you need to do something to get them. With Opt-IN if you do nothing you will not get them. Opt-IN is the better choice.
I agree dirty ads are a problem, and probably the FCC should do something about it. Fortunately, you can mitigate them now without government intervention.
Either use Brave browser or Firefox with Ublock Origin. If you’re feeling especially nasty, use AdNauseam; it blocks ads but reports that you clicked on everything, thereby wasting advertiser money. If enough people do that, it’ll break the ad-supported internet model.
A lot of times I’ll follow someone who posts funny videos only to find they switch it up suddenly and I see full on adult content in my FB stories. It’s insane