• ohlaph@lemmy.world
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    5 months 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.

  • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
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    6 months 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.

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      5 months ago

      Also carnism is a crucial foundation of fascism. That’s definitely part of their plan to recruit rubes, sociopaths, etc.

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    5 months 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
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      5 months ago

      ‘Targeted advertising’ is shockingly untargetted. As the underpinnings of our digital economy, the value of online advertising is dangerously overinflated.

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        5 months 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.

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        5 months 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

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        5 months 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.

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        5 months 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.

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      5 months ago

      people on Rednote are actually nice though, whereas Truth Social is full of MAGA Nazis

    • Quicky@lemmy.worldOP
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      6 months 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.

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    5 months 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

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      5 months 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.

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        5 months 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.

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          5 months ago

          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.

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        5 months ago

        Same with googling things and clicking on the first few links because they’re advertisement links

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            5 months ago

            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

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          5 months ago

          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.

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    5 months ago

    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.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    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. 🤔