I refuse to believe this is real
I mean, that's literally the opposite of what I want
Submitted 1 day ago by Quicky@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Aeri@lemmy.world 14 hours 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!”
llii@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
At least they show what they think of women.
stinerman@midwest.social 1 day 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@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
‘Targeted advertising’ is shockingly untargetted. As the underpinnings of our digital economy, the value of online advertising is dangerously overinflated.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Could you imagine the carnage in tech stocks if corporations realized ads are dogshit?
Rooty@lemmy.world 8 hours 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.
Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 1 day 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
Uruanna@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 hours 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.
trolololol@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Well it’s an ad, so capitalism will get an edge
WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
“….without discriminating on the basis of political ideology.”
Isn’t discrimination like, the entire purpose of what Truth Social is about?
renzev@lemmy.world 3 hours 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.
viking@infosec.pub 3 hours 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.
ohlaph@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Shhh… They don’t want their feelings hurt.
Anti_Face_Weapon@lemmy.world 14 hours 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@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
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 feed their wind-tunnel.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Charge your phone
abbadon420@lemm.ee 18 hours ago
In stead of “ad free photo sharing” you get “photo free ad sharing”
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
Also truth free.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 day ago
can@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
What store is this?
rtxn@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Droid-ify client, which is an alternative client for F-Droid.
If you’ve never used F-droid, give it a go: 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).
HReflex@pawb.social 1 day ago
It looks like Droid-ify to me
Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
they’re not in the defult repo :/
Psythik@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
brb@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
I’m using AdAway for systemwide adblocking but it doesn’t block sponsored apps in Play Store. Can Adguard DNS block these?
QualifiedKitten@lemmy.world 1 day 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@lemmy.world 8 hours 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.
Amanduh@lemm.ee 18 hours ago
Same with googling things and clicking on the first few links because they’re advertisement links
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 1 day ago
I see this in Australia.
Quicky@lemmy.world 1 day ago
iOS vs Android, and region I expect. Although I’m in the UK, and I can’t imagine it’s that popular here.
finley@lemm.ee 1 day ago
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.
SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Yeah, I’ve just scrolled down the iOS App Store, I didn’t see anything for the fediverse.
thehatfox@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
You’re still getting an ad as the top result, just a different ad.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
Why would you want what you searched for when instead you could have ads and fascist propaganda?
proper@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I didn’t realize til now the logo looks just like polyend
Quicky@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh wow, they’re almost identical. That may come back to bite Dan on the ass.
can@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Eh, it’s different enough and they’re in different markets anyway. Theirs is rounded at the bottom but Pixelfed’s is straight.
fox2263@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Americas big tent
ohlaph@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
When I see an ad to that, I download it on an old device, then uninstall it and give it a 2 star review.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 day ago
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
Frostbeard@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
Also on iPhone, got Red Note ad instead. I wonder if it’s regional or if it’s kinda random?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
You’ve got mail! <3
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I get an ad for a crypto app! (Canada).
I do have my privacy settings locked down, so they are listing non-targeted ads.
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Same, also locked down all my settings.
Quicky@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I haven’t done that many Nazi-related things recently, so if it is targeted, there’s something off with Apple’s algorithm.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Well, I can say that if I dare use YouTube without an account, things spiral to the extreme right very quickly! It’s as if these companies are either purposely pushing this agenda, or they are being paid to from outside influences.
uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Coinbase?
finley@lemm.ee 1 day ago
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.
Quicky@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I hope that as is pay per view and not pay per click
Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 18 hours ago
Truth social is based on mastodon so its close enough
Horsey@lemmy.world 1 day ago
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
i got Rednote, which is the other opposite of what I want
sudoer777@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
people on Rednote are actually nice though, whereas Truth Social is full of MAGA Nazis
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
“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.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Had the same thing happen when searching for Bluesky
tpyo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
IHateReddit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
well that’s a different app store
Greg@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Well Truth Social a siloed Mastodon instance
stinerman@midwest.social 1 day ago
Pretty much. They’ve made some changes but it’s unclear if has changed enough to not be able to federate.
antiquity2038@reddthat.com 4 hours ago
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.
viking@infosec.pub 3 hours ago
Does it have a dark mode? I used the website mostly which is alright, but tried the app when they announced it a couple days ago, and that was my first issue.
antiquity2038@reddthat.com 3 hours ago
Pixelix and PixelDroid both have a dark mode.