#junkads
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #junkads from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #junkads
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-07-27 13:42 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-07-27 13:42 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #junkads.
Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-07-27 13:42 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 2 public posts (spanning ~64 hours).
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Languages: English (2)
Avg boosts / post: 1
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No co-used tags in the sample.
Top of the latest posts
A combination of self-preferencing (upranking Amazon's knock-offs), pay-for-placement (ads), other forms of payola (whether a merchant pays for Prime), and #JunkAds (that don't match your search) turn Amazon's search-ordering into a rigged
But *everyone* loses in this "two-sided market." Amazon used #JunkAds to juice its ad-revenue: these are ads that are objectively bad matches for your search, like showing you a Seattle Seahawks jersey in response to a search for LA Lakers
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/junkads