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!”
“….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.
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.
Americas big tent
Aurora rules. (and doesn’t track you)
If only someone finally forced iOS to be open for other stores
In stead of “ad free photo sharing” you get “photo free ad sharing”
Also truth free.
Why would you want what you searched for when instead you could have ads and fascist propaganda?
Truth social is based on mastodon so its close enough
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?
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
I hope that AD is pay per view and not pay per click
Apple thinks I’m a nerd (and they’re right) lol.
This was my result:
well that’s a different app store
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.
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.
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.
I don’t think “hates Trump” is a metric that Apple tracks, but I get your point.
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.
You’re still getting an ad as the top result, just a different ad.
