Facebook are showing me adverts, annoying, and whilst skipping over them, this caught my eye.

I have not looked in more detail - pretty much on principle as I don't like the damn adverts.

But it caught my eye, not because it actually looks like a nice battery+solar pack, but because of the claim.

I mean WTAF?

I mean, we are talking one of those lego model villages, right?

Why does FB allow such adverts?

Why does anyone fall for them?

@revk They just forgot to add "very very briefly"

@revk “why does FB allow such adverts?” because they like money and as such take money first and ask questions later (see also: malvertising everywhere). also there’s plenty of shady dropshipping operations running out of countries like vietnam which compromise facebook accounts (which are already approved to buy advertising) via various methods and buy advertising fraudulently using them

@revk Perhaps it can power a whole village where they currently have no power at all so don't have anything that needs it?

@revk

There are no advertisement standards anymore. They tell me Amazon and eBay are full of shit too; I know for a fact that MercadoLibre (Argentina) lets scammers alone.

@revk ...a really small village, where they've lived without electricity for centuries so they're not dependent on it at all?

@FenTiger Ah, an Amish village maybe?

@revk@toot.me.uk Presumably a small third-world village where the only electrical loads are a few LED lights and phone chargers.

@etchedpixels @revk Fb is full of obvious scam. It does not look like they really care :-(. That's why I started exploring fediverse...

@revk @FenTiger A village that uses no more than 600 W, according to the text on the side panel. Of course, there's no way a solar panel that size (I'm estimating less than 0.5 m²) can provide even that amount of power. The battery quite possibly can, though.