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this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2025
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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?
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.
I worked in advertising for over 10 years before a career change. I saw how much money was wasted on programmatic digital advertising. I'd recommend checking out the book, The Subprime Attention Crisis
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What store is this?
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).
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It looks like Droid-ify to me
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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!"
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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.
The ad on top is selected from a pool of ads from companies that paid for their placement up there. If you run the search again, it will probably show an ad for Snapchat or Instagram or something.
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.
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Yeah, I’ve just scrolled down the iOS App Store, I didn’t see anything for the fediverse.
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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.
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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?
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.
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I didn’t realize til now the logo looks just like polyend
Oh wow, they’re almost identical. That may come back to bite Dan on the ass.
Eh, it's different enough and they're in different markets anyway. Theirs is rounded at the bottom but Pixelfed's is straight.
Pixelfed's is straight
Not the way I use it
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.
Honestly, what it would probably come down to is a court ruling, and if poly Fed really wanted to spend the money on lawyers to push it that far. Honestly, it could probably go either way.
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.
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In stead of "ad free photo sharing" you get "photo free ad sharing"
Also truth free.
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.
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I get an ad for a crypto app! (Canada).
I do have my privacy settings locked down, so they are listing non-targeted ads.
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The ad on top is randomly generated, and it is a paid app for a social media site. If you run the search again, it will come up with a different app on top. It might be Snapchat, Instagram, or through social, or any other social media app.
Yeah as I say, I know why it’s there, and that you will see different ones. It just caught my eye because of the likely wildly different ideals of the two apps’ customers.
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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.
I hope that AD is pay per view and not pay per click
Why would you want what you searched for when instead you could have ads and fascist propaganda?
Fuck. For a second there I thought it was an ad in Lemmy, and was enraged that this shit was pushed. Don't care me like that
Had the same thing happen when searching for Bluesky
"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.
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Apple thinks I’m a nerd (and they’re right) lol.
