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!
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'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.
Yeah, I’ve just scrolled down the iOS App Store, I didn’t see anything for the fediverse.
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You’re still getting an ad as the top result, just a different ad.
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?
Shhh... They don't want their feelings hurt.
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.
In stead of "ad free photo sharing" you get "photo free ad sharing"
Also truth free.
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.
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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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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. 🤔
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Why would you want what you searched for when instead you could have ads and fascist propaganda?
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.
Had the same thing happen when searching for Bluesky
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
By “big tent” they must mean a circus tent.
Apple thinks I’m a nerd (and they’re right) lol.
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