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Those ads don’t even look like they’re useful to anyone, they’re like the “He figured out how to download a car. Doctors hate him!” ads from a decade ago
just why
Bots advertising to bots, like Facebook
But Elon hates bots! That’s why he bought twitter in the first place!
He hates bots*
*that don’t agree with his fascism, or don’t make him money
How can they report the unreportable?
- shiveyarbles ( @shiveyarbles@beehaw.org ) 4•9 months ago
Please do the needful and revert
My solution works fine on Android
- Delete the Twitter app.
- Open the site in Firefox Mobile
- Open the Firefox menu and choose Install
- Install uBlock Origin into Firefox
Now you have a launcher icon for Twitter that opens in Firefox and has all the ads stripped out. I believe there is even a “Twitter Control Panel” add on that will remove a lot of the remaining clickbait from the page too - what’s trending etc.
But then I’d have that terrible X logo on my phone instead of the much-less-terrible bird logo.
I have yet to update to any version of the app that uses that logo.
Orrr, another solution is… what, class?
Use Mastadon or some other social media platform. Not always a choice and if you’re stuck with Twitter you might as well ensure you’re not enriching the platform.
The article linked also has ads I can’t block or report. This is just more “rocket man bad” crap.
Rocket man is bad. Are you implying he isn’t? Two things can be bad at once.
Bad at what. I’m not quick to be so black and white in a gray world, and at the same time I don’t really care one way or the other. But it’s annoying to constantly hear complaints about things related to him when everyone else does the same shit.
He’s a billionaire, he’s a conservative, and he’s spouted falsehoods about covid.
I disliked him when he was less rich and more liberal after he called that dude a pedo because he didn’t like Musk’s idea for saving those trapped kids. He’s a child.
Yeah the pedo comment was nasty. He was just spouting off because he got his feelings hurt, I can relate to that. He is human and followed up with an apology.
I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. That is my mistake. I will correct it.
I have no clue the story with spreading covid lies. So much covid info was and still is very unknown. I’ve seen unintentional lies spread from big names on both sides on that.
I’m not saying the man is a saint, but hot damn I’d personally go after any politician for being a shitty human before I went after Elon.
X, formerly known as Twitter, is one of the largest social media platforms. To not report on a change like this that injects ads that you’d see on “news” websites with clickbaity articles would be silly.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Mashable reports that users on X, formerly known as Twitter, have seen unlabeled ads in their feeds while scrolling through the company’s mobile apps.
When users tap them, they’re taken to other websites, with no way to block or report them.
Unlike normal ads that are just posts from company X accounts and have an “Ad” label, these new ones have no account associated with them.
If you’re just scrolling, the embedded image and clickbait-style text might make you think it’s just another post.
A “profile” picture made from the embedded image completes the illusion.
Neither I nor my colleagues at The Verge have seen the new ads in our own feeds.
The original article contains 152 words, the summary contains 112 words. Saved 26%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
I only kept the app on my phone for the rare occasion I wanted to read a full post from one linked here. Those have evaporated so it lost its last little bit of usefulness.
