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by Traubenfuchs 1591 days ago
You do realize that serious mental illness would make you think that you really confirmed with friends that those ads are real even when they are not?

They sound so outlandish and insane (poems using your name) that I am sceptic.

You should screenshot and compile those ads in form of a blogpost or on twitter.

I am rather mentally ill and all I get are ads for those useless chatbot apps and meditation apps.

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Sure, I mean anything's possible. If I was that out of it though I would expect consequences to arise - feedback from family/doctors, arguments, alienated relationships. In any case that wouldn't be something HN could help with, and I am taking the strong antipsychotics that are supposed to quell stuff like that.

It's been months since I saw the poetry specifically and I don't have pics of that, but here are a few ad pics I did save:

https://imgur.com/thmf8hU https://imgur.com/rbRRxmk

Aren’t those recommended posts from your instagram feed?

Hovering over those and examining and studying them in anger/fear/horror is still engaging with the ad. Won’t the algo serve more similar content if you are spending time looking at it?

Like I explained with the initial post, 99% of the time I try to avoid exactly that - averting my eyes, scrolling and using peripheral vision to see when the ad's gone. Not taking screenshots or pausing because that's engagement. I've tried both tactics of pausing to click "Hide ad - irrelevant", or just scrolling past as fast as possible.

I did, twice apparently, stop and take screenshots because my therapist wanted proof. If I get an ad for pistachios or moisturizer these days I do the opposite - pause, click the ad.

Those are confessions that those responsible for these messages are targeting you. You haven't provided irrefutable proof they are real, but I chose to believe them.

They want to provoke you to claim there's a conspiracy, because in this cultural context that claim is never treated with respect, and forfeits the few real protections society provides against this.

Conspiracies abound, it's not remarkable. The Bible is full of them. History is full of them. Courts deal with them on a daily basis.

Just think, how many sports people carry out alone, and how many are team sports? In the same way, how many forms of harm can be carried out alone, and how many can be carried out in a group?

Read up on the law in this regard, it's a totally different story if you say "there's a conspiracy" or "they're out to get me" (never ever say that, that always backfires), or if you say "I found evidence of meeting of the minds" or "I'm seeing messages that are gloating that they are harming me". That's a totally different story. And you need to have higher status first, society won't help you with this normally. So work on your presentation as much as you can. I see your sentences are grammatical and the development of the logic is linear; this is good.

I actually would get off social networks, or limit it to the max. Try to get offline as much as possible. It's just really hard. But for instance you can start using well-litigated forms of communication, like land lines and the mail, and just paying what it costs for long-distance phone calls. Read an actual newspaper instead of news aggregators, not a whole lot of javascript and cookies on the print edition. All that encryption shit, like hey there's this great new app that covers the exact vulnerability you have, that sucks because then you're trusting the dude who made the app, too, and who knows what bugs he left in his code. Only the absolute best can be trusted, and not completely.

This stuff is expensive. It is all expensive. It's the cheapest thing to get everything for free and give up your data, basically (and especially in your case, I think you'll get a little laugh out of this despite your suffering if you follow my dark humor) you're selling your soul, lol.

One thing you can do that's cheap is when you're online, mislead. Don't always click on links you're actually interested in, search for things you don't give a shit about, be dishonest in your browsing basically.

It also sounds like your case isn't hardcore. It's persistent, and it's everywhere online, but it's just some guy or guys doing cheap, easy stuff that anyone can do with like four dollars of targeted ad spending, and two dollars of data bought off a broker. It looks like they're just measuring how well their psy-ops work by seeing how you react. They're not actually going to send someone to come get you where you live, that's expensive and dangerous and you're not that important to them.

I do some of this stuff as a hobby, I just have fun with security. You can claim the same thing, that you're just doing it as a passion.