There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

fne8w2ah ,

Even more enshittification of the Internet ffs!?

xantoxis ,

why the fuck they need to show you an ad. you’re already there buying chicken

UFO64 ,

Why make money if you can make MORE money?

hitmyspot ,

They probably aren’t showing you ads. They are probably inserting trackers to tag you as a person, a purchaser, who likes chicken and is willing to pay for food, for delivery etc. the size of your order may hint at demographics, like family, kids. The address.gives useful data, the type of credit card. What kind of software and hardware loaded the site? Etc etc.

bartolomeo ,
@bartolomeo@suppo.fi avatar

Secret? My god, the sense of entitlement of capital.

Just to be clear, is the implication here that people should use ad blockers in secret and that the “right” thing to do is to consume whatever media (and expose open tabs, history, etc) corporate wants you to see?

LavaPlanet ,

They’re kinda telling on themselves, ‘no secrets’ what does watching an add have to do with secrets, unless they want you to have no secrets from them, and give you all a your data. Then that sentence makes sense. That sentence has some real twist / projection / gaslighty vibes. Why do corporations feel like my abusive ex.

ExfilBravo ,

Because they are. They need you financially but they hate your guts too.

bartolomeo ,
@bartolomeo@suppo.fi avatar

Exactly!

dangblingus ,

What ads are even on a Pepsico website? Why would Pepsi need 3rd party advertising on their own website?

morrowind ,
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

Probably telemetry, which most ad blockers also block. I think you meant kfc instead of pepsi

Captainvaqina ,

KFC is under the PepsiCo monopoly

morrowind ,
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

TIL. Damn it

Sendbeer ,

Not anymore though. They spun kfc, taco bell, and pizza hut years ago and they are under the yum brand now. They still have exclusive contracts regarding fountain. Not sure what other connections are left.

CosmicTurtle ,

Yeah…

Hate to break it to you but our world is owned by like 11 companies

thedirtyknapkin ,

no it isn’t, it’s owned by yum brands, a Chinese restaurant conglomerate. not better, but not pepsico either.

droans ,

A Chinese conglomerate publicly traded on the NYSE who reports in USD and files with the SEC? A Chinese conglomerate with their headquarters in Kentucky whose majority investors are institutional? A Chinese conglomerate with most shares owned by people or companies in America and whose executives are all American?

slurpeesoforion ,

They could be owned by sewer rats. But that wouldn’t matter 'cause I don’t eat the mother fucker anyway.

Cris_Color ,
@Cris_Color@lemmy.world avatar

Yum! Brands, Inc. (sometimes called simply Yum!), formerly Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc., is an American multinational fast food corporation listed on the Fortune 1000. Yum! operates the brands KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and The Habit Burger Grill, except in China, where the brands are operated by a separate company, Yum China. Yum! previously also owned Long John Silver’s and A&W Restaurants. The company was created as a spin-off of PepsiCo in 1997.

I went and looked up the Wikipedia page out of curiosity when someone disagreed that they’re a Chinese conglomerate and thought I’d share for anyone else reading the thread.

Short answer: not a Chinese conglomerate.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yum!_Brands?wprov=sfla1

thedirtyknapkin ,

well shit, i didn’t look that close. i just knew it wasn’t PepsiCo.

Cris_Color ,
@Cris_Color@lemmy.world avatar

Glad I could provide additional context :)

Hope you have a good one!

droans ,

Yum (KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut) split from Pepsi a couple decades ago back in 1997.

GhostFence ,

You order online for delivery to avoid COVID only to catch a computer virus from an ad. I used to watch my relatives browse to a news page and IMMEDIATELY get hit with a “MICROSOFT ERROR CALL xxx-xxx-xxxx TO FIX IT”. Then I put ublock origin on their PC aaaaaaand good game ads!

yokonzo ,

If there’s no secrets then there shouldn’t be any problem with ad blocking

Cethin ,

I interpret this as a pretty clear “you aren’t allowed to have secrets” message. The only secrets allowed are theirs, not yours. They’re going to track everything you do.

meliodas_100 ,

Why are you using edge bro use firefox or librefox.

dangblingus ,

They’re using firefox…

Blisterexe ,

What? They’re using firefox

superfes ,

I love how you could literally be trying to give a company money and they still want more…

Maeve ,

And act like they’re doing youthe favor, to allow you to politely hand them your hard-earned peasant pennies.

frezik ,

They don’t want some of the money. They want all of the money.

leaky_shower_thought ,

the secret sauce is in the double dip.

possiblylinux127 ,

What? Why is this this a think.

Anyway use ublock origin with updated block lists and this likely won’t happen.

MonkderZweite ,

They didn’t understand what an adblocker is for? Their privacy vs. your privacy.

FartsWithAnAccent ,
@FartsWithAnAccent@kbin.social avatar

Sorry, best I can do is never visit your shitty website again. Guess I'll order fried chicken from somewhere else, or, better yet, make a superior version at home!

cyberpunk007 ,

I just close these types of sites and do something different out of spite.

Maeve ,

Out of more love for myself, than greedy megacorporations.

Demonmariner ,

The ad blocker fight is getting really strange. I don’t use a blocker, but this morning I couldn’t read an article on google news without disabling my ad blocker which I don’t have.

Vash63 ,

Maybe your browser is blocking tracking or other cookies that adblockers also target.

Demonmariner ,

It’s not on a browser as such. I use the Google News app on my phone. I can’t believe it would block anything at all.

droans ,

The most common one I’ve seen on Google News uses DNS checking, too. If it can’t resolve an ad domain, it assumes you’re using an ad blocker.

ConstipatedWatson ,

Well, I’m sure you can buy delicious fried chicken elsewhere at a local joint (those people won’t block your ads)!

moon ,

Nice, they’re worried about losing ad money and analytics over losing more money by selling what their whole business is about.

Showroom7561 ,

Are they making money selling food or selling ad spots? Stupid businesses don’t deserve to stay in business.

Daxtron2 ,

Soda is a big money maker actually

benhum ,

They are tracking you so they can sell you more chicken. Remarketing.

eltrain123 ,

So they can sell your browsing habits to other advertising firms and, ultimately, other manufacturers or service providers… so they can badger you with more targeted ads…

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