This is top level enshittification. You're showing the user an ad that is, as OP says, the opposite of what they want, and then charging Truth Social for the impression. Magnificent!
'Targeted advertising' is shockingly untargeted. As the underpinning of our digital economy, the value of online advertising is dangerously overinflated.
I occasionally buy tools, and damn right I research them until I know they're "buy it for life" quality
Then I spend the next few weeks getting bombarded by ads for a tool I will never ever buy
Could you imagine the carnage in tech stocks if corporations realized ads are dogshit?
The only time I ever click on an ad for anything is because I want to see exactly how much they are charging for whatever clearly ridiculous thing they're advertising. Meaning I was never planning on buying it. Thankfully, that is rare.
See also every single sponsored ad on my Instagram.
I like how they expertly hide the fact that it's nazi propaganda and the photos are like "uh, here's some pictures of plants! It's uh, people share uh, gardening tips yeah!"
At least they show what they think of women.
I see this in Australia.
iOS vs Android, and region I expect. Although I’m in the UK, and I can’t imagine it’s that popular here.
Yeah, I’ve just scrolled down the iOS App Store, I didn’t see anything for the fediverse.
I’m also using iOS in the UK. I just tried searching for Pixelfed in the App Store and the ad was for some sort of golf tutoring app.
The top search result was the Pixelfed app and the others all other Fediverse apps.
You’re still getting an ad as the top result, just a different ad.
Yeah but he's getting a relevant ad. I'm sure Tim is pushing the Truth Social ad for free as a way to donate another million to Trump.
Don't know if it works on iOS, but in Android you can block ads systemwide by setting your DNS server to dns.adguard-dns.com.
Note that this may occasionally interfere with things. I was having trouble with in-flight WiFi last time I flew, and I once I switched the Private DNS setting back to Automatic, it suddenly worked.
I'm using AdAway for systemwide adblocking but it doesn't block sponsored apps in Play Store. Can Adguard DNS block these?
“….without discriminating on the basis of political ideology.”
Isn’t discrimination like, the entire purpose of what Truth Social is about?
The type of people that truth social is designed for (conservatives, rightists, fascists) are often shunned for discriminating against minorities. Here they're trying to pull a "no u", to say that akshually we're the ones who are discriminated against in mainstream media, and we're gonna build our own platform with no discrimination, making us more virtuous than you. They don't believe they actually have less discrimination, to them "discrimination" is a playing token in the game of morals. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that it doesn't matter whether or not they believe they have less discrimination, because having less discrimination was never the goal. The card says moops.
They should be taken down for false advertisement etc. You don't get to claim not to discriminate on political ideology if you also censor and delist posts that you disagree with.
In stead of "ad free photo sharing" you get "photo free ad sharing"
Also truth free.
By the way, the official Pixelfed app on the Play Store seems to have Google AdMob integrated if you care about that kind of thing. I'd recommend installing Pixelix or PixelDroid from the official F-Droid repositories instead.
Maybe it's because I block most ads on my network, but I don't see any ad when searching for this app on android.
Neither do I. I only have Fdroid and the Aurora Store App. Got that MicroG so the Play Store would not even work on my phone. Using CalyxOS
I get an ad for a crypto app! (Canada).
I do have my privacy settings locked down, so they are listing non-targeted ads.
Same, also locked down all my settings.
I haven’t done that many Nazi-related things recently, so if it is targeted, there’s something off with Apple’s algorithm.
Coinbase?
Apple is probably pushing that Ad free of charge. Considering how quickly Tim preemptively bent the knee just on the chance it would benefit him and the shareholders is obscene. I've always known Tim only cared about money. After all, that's the only thing he did better than Steve Jobs. Now I know for sure that he's a worthless selfish waste of a human being.
Now I know for sure that he's a worthless selfish waste of a human being.
-2 months later-
ooh is that the new iPhone?
I love how they have to advertise exactly what that social media (TS) isn't, a big tent social media platform. I'm sure the rubes eat it up.
There's a 99.9% chance those screenshots of the app in the App Store listing are fake considering there's no antisemitism in those posts at all. 🤔
I mean the woman posting there identifies herself as a follower, seems on brand for the platform
I hope that AD is pay per view and not pay per click
Fuck. For a second there I thought it was an ad in Lemmy, and was enraged that this shit was pushed. Don't scare me like that
Why would you want what you searched for when instead you could have ads and fascist propaganda?
I refuse to believe this is real
Still there mate
This is what I get. Not as bad but still bad lol
It's literally an ad? You can choose which search terms your ad appears for
Well Truth Social a siloed Mastodon instance
Pretty much. They've made some changes but it's unclear if has changed enough to not be able to federate.
"Simplicity is key, a good cut of beef, salt, pepper and olive oil". Ironically I suspect that, despite it being steak and being posted by a woman talking about cooking, such a post would still cop a lot of flack and trigger a lot of the type of people that would choose to use Truth Social because of the mention of seed oil over animal fat.
Also carnism is a crucial foundation of fascism. That's definitely part of their plan to recruit rubes, sociopaths, etc.
Also on iPhone, got Red Note ad instead. I wonder if it’s regional or if it’s kinda random?
Edit: I refreshed and now it’s Snapchat.
Edit: refreshed, it’s now AOL hahaha
You’ve got mail! <3
By “big tent” they must mean a circus tent.
Apple thinks I’m a nerd (and they’re right) lol.
Anybody whose been plant-based and/or vegan for some time can vouch that targeted ads very frequently are not about what's actually relevant to the user, but more what their favorite corporate partners can try to gaslight you into believing is relevant. On both Facebook and YouTube I would get so many more ads and video results for animal products after making the switch, despite seeking out solely pb/vegan content and actively blocking and suppressing animal abuse content.
This was my result:
well that's a different app store
For now...
Americas big tent
Well it's an ad, so capitalism will get an edge
I'm in the US and when I search the Play store for "pixelfed" I get Pixelfed as the first result; Truth Social is nowhere on the list of results for me
Even better, use F-droid
Same thing happened to me. I went to download Pixelfed yesterday after deleting instagram finally. Truth Social came up first.
Truth social is based on mastodon so its close enough
This is why we gotta ban TikTok!!!! \s
