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.
This was my result:
well that’s a different app store
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 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
Apple thinks I’m a nerd (and they’re right) lol.
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
I hope that AD is pay per view and not pay per click
i got Rednote, which is the other opposite of what I want
people on Rednote are actually nice though, whereas Truth Social is full of MAGA Nazis
they’re not in the defult repo :/
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).
Not a negative review, that was something positive but I don’t remember it exactly:
They are not 1:1 the same versions as in the playstore. As soon as in-app purchases are available. This means that you can only update the app via the same store and the other would require a new installation due to a different signature.
It looks like Droid-ify to me
“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 “big tent” they must mean a circus tent.
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.
I’m also using iOS in the UK. I just tried searching for Pixelfed in the App Store and the ad was for some sort of golf tutoring app.
The top search result was the Pixelfed app and the others all other Fediverse apps.
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.
I don’t think “hates Trump” is a metric that Apple tracks, but I get your point.
Ha probably not, but you never know. I bet they can determine my ideologies from the publications I’ve blocked on Apple News +, but who knows what they use to build up a profile.
Yeah, I’ve just scrolled down the iOS App Store, I didn’t see anything for the fediverse.
You’re still getting an ad as the top result, just a different ad.
Had the same thing happen when searching for Bluesky
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.
Neither do I. I only have Fdroid and the Aurora Store App. Got that MicroG so the Play Store would not even work on my phone. Using CalyxOS
I get an ad for a crypto app! (Canada).
I do have my privacy settings locked down, so they are listing non-targeted ads.
Coinbase?
Same, also locked down all my settings.
I haven’t done that many Nazi-related things recently, so if it is targeted, there’s something off with Apple’s algorithm.
Well, I can say that if I dare use YouTube without an account, things spiral to the extreme right very quickly! It’s as if these companies are either purposely pushing this agenda, or they are being paid to from outside influences.
I use Youtube without an account and I am blessed to not have experience this on any of my devices on my network. A lot of AI slop telling “inspirational” stories, but I have never seen Ben Shapiro/Jordan Peterson/Asmonroach being suggested.
I wonder what’s actually going on under the hood. Maybe Youtube/Google think I can’t be radicalized, or that I already am.
