This was from around 3 weeks ago. I pretty religiously (pun intended) blocked and reported ads from the “hegetsus” fundie christian bs group for probably 6-8 months. Naively I thought it actually started making a difference.

Then I just get served an ad from them with a little note that this was “Posted from a blocked account”.

“Blocked”… you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means…

  • CaptObvious@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Same here. I always reported for hate speech or porn, depending on my mood at the time. Still got their crap. Yet another reason to feel good about nuking Reddit.

    • eramseth@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I actually tried to play by the rules and just reported it as spam every time and also blocked the account.

  • DreamySweet@vlemmy.netEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    It’s not just ads. They used to hide posts made by blocked users but they stopped doing that a while ago. Blocking doesn’t do anything anymore. There is also a limit to how many accounts you can block, which is easy to reach just by blocking bots.