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I’ve seen 4 site on FB (I know I know) all offering the same exact item (a mag safe adjustable phone stand that can clip to things or has a tripod and adjusts). They are literally all the same thing for the same price. I would assume they’re from the same manufacturer. So how can I find out which is the real source, or does it matter and just pick one.

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[-] Zero22xx 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Lol so is this just a thing with Facebook advertising these days? Last time I went on a couple of months ago, it kept advertising the exact same cardigans to me over and over but from different 'shops'. There were even two with completely different shop names that had the same sob story about a "going out of business sale", complete with crying face reactions as if life long fans of this shop were sad about the news.

I find it kinda funny in a way. Here's the social media powerhouse Meta making advertising central to their business but they can't even bother doing a little quality checking and not letting it be flooded with obvious fake shops that can't even do deception and trickery right.

[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

It’s not just Facebook, I’ve seen it a lot in ads on mobile games and a lot of them look like they’re made for social, Tik Tok and similar. A lot of them claim to be going out of business, and the one that really makes me laugh is the one that’s obviously an AI-generated old man talking about having to shut down his decades-old business making hand-crafted leather goods. If the leather goods they sell are hand-crafted I’m sure it’s coming from a sweatshop in China or somewhere even cheaper, not an artisanal workshop from a single craftsman.

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