Constant porn adverts on facebook *TW*

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So disgusted. The past week I’ve been targeted by almost every other advert on Facebook being erotic fiction. It’s often a ‘company’ with multiple accounts so when I block them as an advertiser I get the same thing with another number and same picture (Lovestory03 type thing). Some of these insinuate fictional child abuse (cartoons of man holding baby with gross writing underneath).
When I click to report the adverts it also gives the option to ‘unsafe’ the adverts… except I haven’t saved any of them.

I’ve tried to report ads to Facebook for sexual nature but it doesn’t get removed, and there’s multiple companies now advertising to me despite blocking them all and changing my ad preferences. What else can I do? AIBU to contact police re the insinuating child abuse?!

I’ve attached a picture of a more blatant one this morning

I had a period of getting these too, plus ones from another weird "publishing company." Facebook don't want to do anything about it. I just kept reporting, and blocking.

Go into your 'saved', delete everything that's there and keep reporting

@girlmom21 I save A LOT of stuff on Facebook (mainly to read in the future like a little reading magpie and never get round to it!) but I could go through and check none have changed to this sort of thing

@veronicagoldberg Reassuring to know I’m not the only one. Did they just disappear one day?

I don’t know where it is exactly, but in settings you can see and edit what Facebook has set as your ‘interests’. They’re generated based on your activities and used for advertising. For example, I get loads of car ads because Facebook thinks I’m interested in cars. No idea why. Anyway, if you can find them, you can delete any weird looking ones which might help.

The best thing to do when you see these ads is to not interact with them by stopping scrolling or clicking to see more of the text. FB just thinks you’re interested and want to see more of them.

@lapasion Yes I think that’s the best bet, it’s so hard to know how the targeted adverts work (these ones say it’s because I’m female 30+ and married when I click on ‘why am I being shown this?’)…

So not police worthy?

Uhh you're aware Facebook tailor ads to your history/search terms?

I've got these atm and I can assure you I have not been searching for anything similar. I can only assume that my interest in sex not gender has made fb think I'm interested.
Fb are quick enough to ban me for stating a biological fact they should be able to ban them.

So not police worthy?

Of course it's not police worthy. It's literature. Poor literature, granted, but literature nonetheless.

@Dinosauria

I've got these atm and I can assure you I have not been searching for anything similar. I can only assume that my interest in sex not gender has made fb think I'm interested. Fb are quick enough to ban me for stating a biological fact they should be able to ban them.

Sorry but it's kind of hilarious if you are seeing porn ads because you can't contain your obsession with sex

Uhh you're aware Facebook tailor ads to your history/search terms?

It really isn't as simple as that. There are zillion other factors that determine the kind of adverts you see, and it also depends on the kind of reach the advertiser has paid for. That advertiser has probably literally just paid for an advert targeting women in a specific age category or women who like reading. I used to get loads of adverts for catheter systems for severely disabled people because I liked a page for a very well-known disability-related charity.

I can only assume that my interest in sex not gender has made fb think I'm interested.

Nope, it's not that either. You're reading way too much into this.

So not police worthy?

FFS, of course it's not police worthy. It's a picture of two people on a park bench with a couple of entirely legal lines of text. Don't waste their time.

@10HailMarys

Uhh you're aware Facebook tailor ads to your history/search terms?

It really isn't as simple as that. There are zillion other factors that determine the kind of adverts you see, and it also depends on the kind of reach the advertiser has paid for. That advertiser has probably literally just paid for an advert targeting women in a specific age category or women who like reading. I used to get loads of adverts for catheter systems for severely disabled people because I liked a page for a very well-known disability-related charity.

I can only assume that my interest in sex not gender has made fb think I'm interested.

Nope, it's not that either. You're reading way too much into this.

Really, you don't think there's a connection between someone posting a load of "sex not gender" GC stuff and Facebook assuming you have an interest in sex?

I don’t get anything like that. Mine are mostly about cats 🐈 I also though ads were related to what you search for...🤷‍♀️

@AHungryCaterpillar

I don’t get anything like that. Mine are mostly about cats 🐈 I also though ads were related to what you search for...🤷‍♀️

Just don't start typing in pussy cats whatever you do

🤣 I might start getting these types of ads if I do!

@SevenWaystoLeave

Uhh you're aware Facebook tailor ads to your history/search terms?

Unless someone is sneaking on to my devices and searching for menswear, specifically designed for body builders and playing weird SIMS like games, I can assure you it's not that simple.

Facebook is absolutely shit in how it deems things appropriate or inappropriate.

Really, you don't think there's a connection between someone posting a load of "sex not gender" GC stuff and Facebook assuming you have an interest in sex?

No, because I get those types of ads too, and I'm not gender-critical and don't discuss sex/gender online. When I first started getting them I mentioned it to a group of friends because it was driving me bonkers and several of them were getting them too. Including one whose only profile is set up in the persona of her dog.

*Unless someone is sneaking on to my devices and searching for menswear, specifically designed for body builders and playing weird SIMS like games, I can assure you it's not that simple.

Facebook is absolutely shit in how it deems things appropriate or inappropriate.*

But it is a fact it tailors ads based on your usage. That may not be the only factor but it's a significant one. So yes if you're searching for sex, clicking on articles about sex, posting about sex, even if you mean it in a different sense, it is going to draw some inferences from that.

At some point you have looked and clicked on one of these ads. Based on that fb will keep putting up similar ads. Keep going to the 3 dots and put in you don't want to see it because it's too sensitive. Keep doing it and don't click on any of them. Eventually they stop.

I had the same because I looked at reborn dolls and it was constant. If I look at shoes all I get is shoe ads.

I get those ads too and also haven't been looking for anything similar, only go on FB to wish family happy birthday and comment on my grandma's photo posts.

@SevenWaystoLeave

*Unless someone is sneaking on to my devices and searching for menswear, specifically designed for body builders and playing weird SIMS like games, I can assure you it's not that simple.

Facebook is absolutely shit in how it deems things appropriate or inappropriate.*

But it is a fact it tailors ads based on your usage. That may not be the only factor but it's a significant one. So yes if you're searching for sex, clicking on articles about sex, posting about sex, even if you mean it in a different sense, it is going to draw some inferences from that.

What's your obsession? These ads aren't actually video porn. They're targeted at women, people who read, people who click on the ads.