Depends on location, platform, and whether or not you have an ad-blocker enabled.

The other day my roommate wanted to show me a video on their phone and got 3 ads before the video played. Alcohol, gambling, then alcohol again.

Fun fact: you CAN win money because they operate in a legal gray area calling themselves “prediction markets”.

Basically you buy percentage shares in an outcome and if that outcome happens all of those that bought the shares get a payout. At least that’s my understanding of it.

Do I do it? Fuck no.

Do I know more than a few people that do? Literally more than half of my coworkers do and a few people in my friend group do.

Bonus “fun” fact: they’re not limited to just gambling. If you managed to miss it, not too long ago people were gambling on events in the Iran War.

If it wasn’t obvious I’m very much against this practice. Shit’s fucked.

I can’t be the only one that immediately thought of The Blues Brothers, right?

Never connect them to the internet

You want your favorite streaming service on there? Get an older (used office) PC, load it up with (your prefered flavor of) Linux, get a bluetooth keyboard mouse combo, hook it up to your HDMI port, and go ham.

Some TVs even let you turn them on directly to a specific HDMI port for a bonus fun time of never having to see the TVs menu.

Bad photoshop my ass, that’s some fine photoshop work!

I must agree though, I’d rather see some bad photoshop memes than AI slop.

Unironically yes

Any blob can be rat or cat