Need your input: When will Meta start Policing their Advertisers?

[Webzcas]

Ok so being the wrong side of 50 I have a Facebook account, in its second incarnation no less. This time around I only have around 50 close friends and family on it, posting in the main pics and videos of my dog and music vids.

Anyhow on my main machine, which in the main allows all cookies, I know Facebook provides very targeted ads. Well I just had this one pop up in my feed!

Now the banner at the top of the ad flashes on and off. In the image above it is not showing. So I will post it directly below:

This is I am afraid completely unacceptable. Meta obviously do not give a $%$% who and what their advertisers are and do.

Thoughts?

 

[maxd]

"Meta obviously do not give a $%$% who and what their advertisers are and do.”

+1 to that. For a good many years they’ve been utterly neligent when it comes to any kind of filtering on their advertisers, especially when it comes to gambling: fake casinos, bogus Telegram accounts, absolute bottom-feeder pirate casinos, fly-by-night sweepstakes sites, etc etc. In fact it got so bad that we simply had to change our Complaints (PAB) Rules to exclude cases related to anything on Facebook. Totally amoral IMHO. Never had much use for FB and I doubt I ever will.

- Max

 

[itsme123]

Get plenty similar on my feed and when I report the ad they basically do sweet FA, reply to me that the ad didn’t breach their standards and wouldn’t be removed.
Meta don’t care all they want is a few quid from the advertising.

 

[SYPlayer95]

Should be illegal for meta to advertise not on gamstop casinos to UK audiences.

 

[ternur]

They don't care. Lawsuits and fines are just a cost of doing business. It's a similar deal with large banks and money laundering. If you get caught, just pay a fine and rinse and repeat.

Meta is certainly aware of this. They're an ad company and will do anything to harvest as much data as possible from their users (and others) so they can maximize their ad revenue. It doesn't matter who buys the ads -- as long as they pay.

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[itsme123]

I had ads for Legionbet popping on my feeds over the last week or so, reported it each time to Meta and the response each time was that it doesnt go against standards, I appealed each time and the same response.
Meta obviously dont mind unlicensed casinos punting for UK customers.