These scammers using Mr Beasts popularity, generosity, and (mostly) deep fake AI to scam people into downloading malware, somehow do not go against Instagrams community guidelines.
After trying to submit a request to review these denied claims, it appears I have been shadow banned in some way or another as only an error message pops up.
Instagram is allowing these to run on their platform. Intentional or not, this is ridiculous and Instagram should be held accountable for allowing malicious websites to advertise their scam on their platform.
For a platform of this scale, this is completely unacceptable. They are blatant and I have no idea how Instagrams report bots/staff are missing these.
@Zaderade The internet is flooded with AI generated ads, it is crazy, I was using my sister’s phone for a moment and inside an app an ad pops up, it was a obviously AI generated image of a singer with the lyrics of the song, nothing compared to a scam, but still. Another example is my mother, she was using youtube shorts and her feed was flooded with AI generated videos, the “person”, voice, background, everything.
Then they ask why people are using ad blocking and alternative clients to consume content.
P.S: I have installed alternative clients, adblocks and all to their phones, I have told them and teach them how to avoid all of this crap, they don’t see to care, they love ads and all this crap. (It’s more of an habit thing I would say, but yeah)
I grew up with the internet and find it wild how other people navigate it. I was at a friends house and he used the computer there. The computer was a maleware infested piece of shit. If it was a horse, it would’ve been shot. He was buying concert tickets but it was so slow, it reminded me of my first computer with a 56kb modem. While the site was loading he was clicking on ads to play pool and other mini games, like it’s completely normal.
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My mother will click on anything that pops up on a screen and then go “ooh why did that happen”. She also has about 9,000 tabs open at any one time 8,300 of which are the same website.
Meanwhile on the other end of the scale my dad refuses to click anything so when he goes on a site on his phone, he will view the site to the tiny sliver that is visible under the cookie warning because he won’t click any button ever, he won’t even click reject he just refuses to press buttons.