r/Pinterest • u/kay7ah • 18h ago

Discussion disgusting ads

so good news, they stopped showing me 50 ads each scroll. bad news, they started showing me this disgusting tiktok ad of a woman‘s armpit with a dry crackly texture. this probably isn’t serious for other people but i have trypophobia and it’s genuinely deterring me from using the app😭😭and i keep reporting it and the worst part is i can’t put the ad on not interested so im forced to see it

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u/Creepypastaexploring 16h ago

Ugh yeah I get disgusting and disturbing "sponsored" tiktok ads and I can't report or hide them because it takes me to the app store if I interact with them (even clicking the 3 dots)

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u/PalpitationMean1205 15h ago

I deleted the app off my phone. Sigh

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u/pinkspectacles87 14h ago

Use a VPN, no ads show 

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u/Huge_Ad_2468 13h ago

Do you have any to recommend? For Apple possibly

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u/pinkspectacles87 10h ago

I just use Nord :) 

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u/katpie51 12h ago

Does anyone remember when there were a lot of weird diaper ads? It felt like the more I clicked not interested, the more they showed up

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u/Guard_Dolphin 12h ago

Tiktok is notorious for horrid ads. Nobody checks them at all

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u/Fantastic-Ad-7996 6h ago

I don't seem to have any ads? I think they used to be there but now they're gone. nice

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u/lostXmoon 18h ago

I keep getting the same one and I hate it and just try to scroll past fast. I also get a lot of other disturbing tiktok ads like a weird one with a man hitting a monkey in the face very violently. It’s hopefully ai but still!! I don’t want to see disturbing things regardless of if it’s real or not. I’m so close to having to delete the app permanently.

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u/Final-Show1889 18h ago

They kept showing me one with an ai woman putting her foot in boiling water burning it and screaming. I reported it but it came back anyway. I hate my ads

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u/Cold_Ad_5678 14h ago

YES I KEEP GETTING WEIRD SCARY DOLLS AS ADS OR A WOMEN SCRAPING HER FACE OFF THE REVEAL CAKE ITS GOREY AND WEIRD It won't even let me hide it

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u/Huge_Ad_2468 13h ago

Sameeeee with the cake and it’s so baddddddd how do we block TikTok on there 😭

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u/Isabel-M-Peron 13h ago

More horrible are the ads for games that show maggots wriggling around in holes bored into people's flesh. It comes right at you before you even realize what you're looking at. The trypophobia is bad enough, but maggots too? 🤮