I don't see much spam or ads, thx to ad-blocking and most likely thx to a narrow selection of websites I allow myself to visit, and I never click on ads: this ad-filled version of the Internet only deserves my disdain, certainly not a second of my time.

It's been a while but I would do it via tor so the JS wouldn't fire and it usually would throw an error saying hackers have your PC or we have seen errors and run this tool to fix it.

I was scrolling Lemmy earlier and saw the porn Spam. Fucking disgusting, and then for some reason I got more than 100 DMs telling me to kill myself. I don't know if that counts but this is really not what I signed up for when joining Lemmy. I just want to scroll and see funny memes, maybe hear about or learn interesting stuff.

Yes, it's dumb shit that gets you to some onlyfanesque page or some paid premium porn page.

I mean, someone has to have, otherwise they wouldn't be doing it anymore.

I have out of curiosity (take precautions, use tor, etc etc), and they're usually either a fake "1337 Hax0rs have your data" or some weird masturbate on cam with someone (that's totally not a prerecorded video!) Type of thing.

Yeah. I entered a lifestyle beyond my wildest dreams

My father in law.