This is why we gotta ban TikTok!!!! \s
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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.
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
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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 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.
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.
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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.
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.
I'm using AdAway for systemwide adblocking but it doesn't block sponsored apps in Play Store. Can Adguard DNS block these?
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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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.
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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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The ad on top is randomly generated, and it is a paid app for a social media site. If you run the search again, it will come up with a different app on top. It might be Snapchat, Instagram, or through social, or any other social media app.
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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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.
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 care me like that
Had the same thing happen when searching for Bluesky