• stinerman
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    11824 days ago

    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!

    • CurlyWurlies4All
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      ‘Targeted advertising’ is shockingly untargeted. As the underpinning of our digital economy, the value of online advertising is dangerously overinflated.

      • @[email protected]
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        1824 days ago

        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

      • @Gradually_Adjusting
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        724 days ago

        Could you imagine the carnage in tech stocks if corporations realized ads are dogshit?

      • @Uruanna
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        424 days ago

        It’s targeting what they want to sell you depending on what target group you are, it’s never been what might actually interest you personally.

      • @Rooty
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        223 days ago

        When I watched youtube on my phone, logged into my google profile, I got generic TV ads for women’s hair care products.

        I am a bald man.

      • Flying Squid
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        -124 days ago

        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.

      • @rtxn
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        4324 days ago

        Droid-ify client, which is an alternative client for F-Droid.

        If you’ve never used F-droid, give it a go: https://f-droid.org/en/about/. It’s a FOSS package manager for Android and nothing more. All it does is host, install, update, and manage applications. No ads, no sponsored suggestions, no ranking. It has strict submission requirements, only serves FOSS apps, and prominently lists apps’ “anti-features” (tracking, reliance on third-party services, things you may not like).

        • @[email protected]
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          Not a negative review, that was something positive but I don’t remember it exactly:
          They are not 1:1 the same versions as in the playstore. As soon as in-app purchases are available. This means that you can only update the app via the same store and the other would require a new installation due to a different signature.

          • @[email protected]
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            424 days ago

            Sometimes F-Droid versions are missing stuff because they’re done by proprietary means on the Play Store versions. Push-notifications for example might be missing.

            Sometimes you get more stuff. Play Store version of OsmAnd+ is paid while on F-Droid it’s free.

            • @[email protected]
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              224 days ago

              In addition to what you already mentioned, I think there was also something if there is a donation button.

  • @Aeri
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    4424 days ago

    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!”

    • Luffy
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      1124 days ago

      If only someone finally forced iOS to be open for other stores

      • ultimate
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        523 days ago

        It is if you live in Europe.

        • MathiasTCK
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          123 days ago

          How has that worked out? I have been curious how much Apples security depended on owning the only allowed app store.

        • Luffy
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          023 days ago

          Louis Rossmann made a good Video about this. TL;Dr: when some company does something shitty, instead of just fleeing to the next big company and hoping that they will not do the same and blaming everyone who is still using their stuff of the old company, you need to actually fight back against the company doing it. Privacy oriented people are few and far beetween, so the „Voting with you wallet” thing will not even make a .01 mark on their revenue

    • zqps
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      223 days ago

      Droid-ify is also great.

      WTF is that last search result though 🫣

    • QuickyOP
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      2825 days ago

      iOS vs Android, and region I expect. Although I’m in the UK, and I can’t imagine it’s that popular here.

        • QuickyOP
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          825 days ago

          Yeah I understand why it’s there, and that you will see different ones. Just posting here because its target demographics are likely comically different from those that are interested in Pixelfed.

            • QuickyOP
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              324 days ago

              Ha probably not, but you never know. I bet they can determine my ideologies from the publications I’ve blocked on Apple News +, but who knows what they use to build up a profile.

      • @[email protected]
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        525 days ago

        Yeah, I’ve just scrolled down the iOS App Store, I didn’t see anything for the fediverse.

      • @thehatfox
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        124 days ago

        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.

      • @[email protected]
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        123 days ago

        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.

  • @Psythik
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    2624 days ago

    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.

    • @QualifiedKitten
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      1224 days ago

      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.

      • @Psythik
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        523 days ago

        True. Public wifi doesn’t like it when you use your own DNS servers cause it makes it slightly harder for them to spy on you and inject ads into web pages.

        Thankfully all you gotta to is switch the DNS setting to Off (or Automatic), then re-enable it when you’re home. Takes 10 seconds.

        • @QualifiedKitten
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          223 days ago

          The main reason I mention it is that it’s super easy to set up, even for someone not very techy, but since it’s hidden in the settings, the non-techy person is probably going to completely forget about it and have no clue what to do when the public WiFi doesn’t work.

      • @[email protected]
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        324 days ago

        Same with googling things and clicking on the first few links because they’re advertisement links

        • @Xanthobilly
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          DuckDuckGo, my netizen. Google search is all AI slop and ads now.

          • @[email protected]
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            324 days ago

            The point wasn’t about how cool the search engine was. It was to highlight another maybe unexpected side effect of blocking the dns. Begone

        • @QualifiedKitten
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          023 days ago

          Oh yeah, I definitely forgot about that since I’ve had that “problem” for as long as I can remember due to using AdAway (via root), which I would never recommend to someone who wasnt already somewhat technically inclined.

    • @[email protected]
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      123 days ago

      I’m using AdAway for systemwide adblocking but it doesn’t block sponsored apps in Play Store. Can Adguard DNS block these?

  • @WrenFeathers
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    “….without discriminating on the basis of political ideology.”

    Isn’t discrimination like, the entire purpose of what Truth Social is about?

    • @ohlaph
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      723 days ago

      Shhh… They don’t want their feelings hurt.

    • @renzev
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      523 days ago

      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.

    • Anti-Face Weapon
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      524 days ago

      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.

      • @WrenFeathers
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        The democrats lacked the tenacity to ever have done it, and the criminal enterprise that currently infest our government would never cease the hardworking blowhards that fervently feed their wind-tunnel.

          • @[email protected]
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            223 days ago

            Oh wow, cry harder. Only reason you hear about conservatives wanting to taste liberal tears is because they’re tied of the taste of their own.

          • @WrenFeathers
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            Subjectively, I meant- use their authority to take them (Truth Social) down.

    • @[email protected]
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      323 days ago

      If you read the reviews on the play store, it seems like people get banned left and right for posting factual truth. So much for “freedom of speech”. Not like anyone expected that in the first place from a fascist echo chamber, but hey.

  • @proper
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    2025 days ago

    I didn’t realize til now the logo looks just like polyend

    • QuickyOP
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      1825 days ago

      Oh wow, they’re almost identical. That may come back to bite Dan on the ass.

      • @[email protected]
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        1724 days ago

        Eh, it’s different enough and they’re in different markets anyway. Theirs is rounded at the bottom but Pixelfed’s is straight.

        • @mipadaitu
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          1724 days ago

          Pixelfed’s is straight

          Not the way I use it

        • QuickyOP
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          IANAL but I reckon there’s enough similarity for Polyend to consider chatting to their legal team. The Pixelfed logo is also actually (inverse) black on the apps, similar to the point where they’re just about the same if you squint.

            • QuickyOP
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              Yeah no doubt. If I were Dan though, I’d just change it before it got to that point. Pixelfed has only actually had this redesigned logo for a few months, and the app has only just been pushed out of beta, so it’s not like it’s an established recognisable brand to lose.