>>159615424chan's servers are kept afloat by federal funding because the CIA/FBI use it as a "honeypot". It's not a good honeypot because the only people posting CP there are third worlders that have governments that don't care about this at all. 4chan management has to run ads to actually earn money, which makes the headache of running the dump worth their time. The problem is that nobody openly wants to advertise on 4chan because of its bad reputation. The answer is to fill the boards with ads under the cover of marketers and bots posing as regular people. This is affordable to the companies because desperate third worlders will accept the role for $1.75 an hour. This is also a huge reason why 4chan has a massive third worlder problem, and it's actually encouraged because the people marketing on the website are also casually posting on the website, which further boosts the PPH and makes advertising on it more valuable, making them more money.
>>15961547You will never guess why YouTubers have to specifically, clearly state they are promoting a product in their video, and why inline ads on forums have to be clearly labeled as advertisements, and why people always get banned on other websites for promoting products while pretending to be a regular person with honest and financially uncompromised opinions. Advertisements legally have to be clearly labeled as advertisements.