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The Harms of Targeted Weight Loss Ads

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Is There Something Insidious Going on With Weight Loss Ads?

The engagement with these adds is just so much more higher when somebody is vulnerable. Our participants even described this akin to some kind of like digital self harm. We don't have any concrete evidence that i can point to, just because there's such a deep ack of transparency in how these odds are created and targeted. The effects on the individual person are pretty deep when they have that vulnerable history.

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