Pay up or suffer.

Aye up me ducks, here's another moan. 

Don't you just get sick of all kinds of unwanted rubbish popping up on your screen while navigating facefuck, ooops sorry, didn't mean to swear. I include adverts, scams, and AI crap in the mix, which I have no interest in. How do you get rid of it. Let's have a go. Here's the menu, we'll see what happens. So I click on hide this ad. 

OK. Now they are asking me to tell them why I want to hide the Boots advert. So I click on irrelevant. 

Then they tell me the Ad is hidden. Shouldn't that be the end of it? I click Done. 

Then it tells me all ads from Boots are hidden. There will be no more. Good. 

Now comes the trick. Another box opens. Two choices. I can choose to continue to use their products, whatever that means, for free, with ads. Or I can subscribe to use it without ads, from £2.99 per month. Sneaky eh! 

Nope, I am not paying. So there you are. It doesn't make a bit of difference which options you click on. They might say they snooze an advert for 30 days, but you can bet your bottom dollar that it will come back. 30 days, not enough. I want it gone forever. Sorry, you've got to pay for that. 

So now I scroll through the dross faster than ever. 

It's the same with other social media platforms. Pay if you don't want to see adverts on yoootoob. Twitter / X upgrade your membership to give you a better experience. Nope, not doing that. They reel you in, then pester you with adverts, scams, and AI and hope you will cave in and pay a subscription. That's how they control you. 

I don't do instagram or tickytock, or any of the other chat boxes. No sireee. 

Moan over. As you were. Thanks for popping in. Toodle pip.   ilona