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 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
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.
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).
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.
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.
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!"
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Democrats have their problems. And they are many. Yet oddly bear little to no resemblance to all the bull the Republicans accuse them of.
As for me, I know I have no friends in Washington. So I couldn't possibly care any less about your pretty little list of bullshit from your previous comment...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I use Youtube without an account and I am blessed to not have experience this on any of my devices on my network. A lot of AI slop telling "inspirational" stories, but I have never seen Ben Shapiro/Jordan Peterson/Asmonroach being suggested.
I wonder what's actually going on under the hood. Maybe Youtube/Google think I can't be radicalized, or that I already am.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Yes but what were you watching??
It was on literally every third video, regardless of context.
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.
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).
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.
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.
In addition to what you already mentioned, I think there was also something if there is a donation button.
It looks like Droid-ify to me
they're not in the defult repo :/
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.
Aurora rules. (and doesn't track you)
If only someone finally forced iOS to be open for other stores
It is if you live in Europe.
How has that worked out? I have been curious how much Apples security depended on owning the only allowed app store.
Spoiler alert, it didn't. There's many ways to publish malware on any official store. Not straightforward, but always possible.
I found this list:
https://www.octalsoftware.com/blog/ios-app-store-alternatives
But no evidence of significant usage of 3rd part ios app stores yet.
You could just use something that isn't iOS
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
Droid-ify is also great.
WTF is that last search result though 🫣
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Same with googling things and clicking on the first few links because they're advertisement links
DuckDuckGo, my netizen. Google search is all AI slop and ads now.
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
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.
No thanks.
I'm using AdAway for systemwide adblocking but it doesn't block sponsored apps in Play Store. Can Adguard DNS block these?
Shhh... They don't want their feelings hurt.
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.
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.
Are you...still crying?
The Democrats have their problems. And they are many. Yet oddly bear little to no resemblance to all the bull the Republicans accuse them of.
As for me, I know I have no friends in Washington. So I couldn't possibly care any less about your pretty little list of bullshit from your previous comment...
The DNC and the RNC bear a remarkable resemblance on any subject that involves corporations, their biggest donors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism#Fascist_corporatism
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.
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.
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.
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.
I really don't think it would be an issue.
Edit: how many people know polyend?
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.
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
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.
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.
Pixelix and PixelDroid both have a dark mode.
Excellent, thanks!
No problem!
The official pixelfed app has a repo on f-droid, you can install it via the QR code in the download link on the pixelfed website
Does the F-Droid version not ship with Google AdMob?
Not sure how I'd go about checking that, it isn't listed as an anti-feature, but neither is anything else since there's no description on f-droid
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.
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.
I use Youtube without an account and I am blessed to not have experience this on any of my devices on my network. A lot of AI slop telling "inspirational" stories, but I have never seen Ben Shapiro/Jordan Peterson/Asmonroach being suggested.
I wonder what's actually going on under the hood. Maybe Youtube/Google think I can't be radicalized, or that I already am.
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.
-2 months later-
ooh is that the new iPhone?
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.
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 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
Why would you want what you searched for when instead you could have ads and fascist propaganda?
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
Had the same thing happen when searching for Bluesky
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
Apple thinks I’m a nerd (and they’re right) lol.
By “big tent” they must mean a circus tent.
Well it's an ad, so capitalism will get an edge
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.
Americas big tent
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
This was my result:
well that's a different app store
For now...
people on Rednote are actually nice though, whereas Truth Social is full of MAGA Nazis
Same thing happened to me. I went to download Pixelfed yesterday after deleting instagram finally. Truth Social came up first.
When I see an ad to that, I download it on an old device, then uninstall it and give it a 2 star review.
I appreciate your dedication
This is why we gotta ban TikTok!!!! \s
Charge your phone
Truth social is based on mastodon so its close enough