For the same effort I put into my blog, I could make 5 of those sites, borrow the 10 grand to plaster them on every search engine, and be retired this time next year. It’s not easy having scruples lol.
And — read carefully now — no offense meant to people with conservative political beliefs.
I see credulous people at the edges all around the political circle being scammed by crap advertisers.
The pointer above to the Breitbart ads is just one example.
The ripoff of customers on the conservative side got well nailed by The Baffler in The Long Con.
But don’t freak out if you read that and you’re conservative and feel insulted. It’s only describing one side of a broad ripoff, because it’s a big visible target.
You can find comparable wackywoo bullshit at Huffington and worse the further out you get in either extreme. But they’re smaller, less lucrative targets.
Lots of little publications out there serve narrower, more focused true believers.
Each of them attracts a plethora of advertising aimed at finding people easily fooled by inflated claims and bogus promises.
The advertisers know damn well what populations they’re aiming for.
There are more scammers advertising in conservative publications because those subscribers have more money, they’re older, and more trusting perhaps.
That’s one reason it’s hard sometimes to convince people they’re being scammed.
The ads are in the publications that tell them what they believe is right — and the ads tell them to believe the ads.
Frustrating, when you want to tell people they can do a whole lot better than that.
What’s funny is that it was a similar ad that landed me on this forum!! I clicked the bait and then started reading the comments. In the comments someone from this forum was calling them out and posted a link and I followed them back to here. And the rest is history!! Now I spend way too much money on “budget flashlights” LOL
Obama has 15% approval among the military and veterans according to CNN.
MSN, Breitbart, the far left Democratic Underground, and others (all) show this ad for a flashlight that claims to be a military flashlight.
I was Airborne also, these lefties are politicizing this thread.
Erm, you all do know that ads pop up based on what info they have on you, what links you click on, what you search for and where you have been right?…
I tend to get lots of banggood flashlight ads myself. I’d never been to “democratic underground” or “brietbart” on this computer (or anywhere in a long time), I tried to see what would come up, and when I go there, I dont get those links…I get Jeep ads and Banggood. Whatever either side thought it proves about the other “them”, it has more to do with your unique data they collected…on you
All the above sites do appear to be pretty badly biased sites, light on the facts and heavy on the fluff and guided opinion…