Really raises the question of how profitable these scam ads have become.

It does, doesn’t it?

If Meta is literally making billions from ads, how much are the scammers buying them making?

People keep coming back to these obviously booby-trapped websites to claw at a thin veneer of simulated friendship because they’ve got nothing better to do with their lives.

Eh, part of it is FOMO. I can’t blame older folks if all their friends and kids and grandkids are on (say) Facebook, and that’s the most advanced means they have of communicating with them that they’re capable of using. What are they supposed to do?