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Lidl recalls Paw Patrol snacks after website on packaging displayed porn (techcrunch.com)

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[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 73 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"huh, ad revenue is up a bit this month"

-- some guy in China

"oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck I'm so fired"

-- some IT guy at paw patrol hq

[-] blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

!NotTheOnion

http://www.appykidsco.com/ - was the site. No porn sadly. Just a chinese landing page.

[-] ilmagico@lemmy.world 51 points 11 months ago

Open it from a mobile device. Definitely lots of porn ads...

[-] rich@feddit.uk 18 points 11 months ago

Yep it's porn

And it's strangely nostalgic, those little GIFs....takes me right back to the 56k days.

[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago

Yup same here. Definitely porn

[-] Byereddithellolemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

So many APKs..

[-] Meho_Nohome@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

It's a lot of Chinese writing and porn gifs. I had to close it immediately because there were about 30 gifs all over my screen.

[-] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Apparently it was a holding page, could they just not have bought the domain?

[-] rostby@lemmy.fmhy.net 10 points 11 months ago

What kinda porn 🤨

[-] TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Just regular porn. I took the plunge and checked it out.

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 10 points 11 months ago

That was my first thought, too - that they'd used Paw Patrol "fan art" as marketing materials, but no... it sounds like it was just improperly vetted adult ads displaying on their site. I am more than a little disappointed.

[-] ares35@kbin.social 14 points 11 months ago

not even that exciting. the company that made the snacks apparently went out of business a year ago, so the domain lapsed.. and this is what can happen.

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

When they went out a year ago, why do they recall something now?

[-] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Supermarket is recalling it, not the manufacturer

[-] db2@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 months ago

Mmm, year old stale snacks, just what every kid wants.

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

At least a year old. Seems like this is blown way out of proportion.

[-] GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

Woof.

[-] Hotdogman@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Yiff

Is what you meant to say.

[-] kuneho@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

awoo

[-] cybirdman@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

It's ridiculous that they would rather throw out all this product instead of just buying the domain back and serve a simple website. Goes to show how little the brand controls about their business.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Maybe they didn't want to sell?

https://website.informer.com/email/muskseo1971@gmail.com

They seem to enjoy collecting expired domains and advertising on them, that might be the more profitable route that trying to find a new buyer.

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