Why would you want what you searched for when instead you could have ads and fascist propaganda?
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
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
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.
Well Truth Social a siloed Mastodon instance
I refuse to believe this is real
Still there mate
Had the same thing happen when searching for Bluesky
“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.
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!
Charge your phone
Americas big tent
By “big tent” they must mean a circus tent.
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.
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
Could you imagine the carnage in tech stocks if corporations realized ads are dogshit?
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.
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.
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
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
