X users report unlabeled clickbait ads that you can’t block or report
3 years ago by mrmanager to c/technology
He hates bots*
*that don't agree with his fascism, or don't make him money
Three only people who will pay to advertise to neo-nazis.
The thing is, neo-Nazis are ignorant, so they're exactly the people to advertise your scam to.
Maybe it’s a kind of dummy content for the test phase? Pretty sure too many people blocked ads and this is their solution
Yep, we're about six months away from Elon Musk personally hawking snake-oil diet supplements and survivalist gear to doomsday preppers a lá Alex Jones. Heck, once Alex Jones' bankruptcy proceedings are finished, Elon can just buy out his stock, cross out Info and sell them as "ElonWars Supplements."
Yes but the question is why would anyone pay for ads like that? How is that investment going to make any sense?
For some people, it's because not enough of a particular community has moved... somehow
Some academic / research / medical communities for example. For others it's the journalists that have yet to move
Because there are sadly a lot of Musk Cucks.
And still too many artists instead of pages like deviantart, artstation or pixiv.
vTubers of various agencies and indied also using it as a main communication platform. Youtube communities usually as a 2nd platform.
What when? I just use it for rainmeter skins to be fair.
I can't speak for all, but: porn. I have a bunch of people I follow, it's literally the only reason I still have an account. Waiting on a bluesky invite but not all have signaled migration to another platform so... I just want to see twinks in kink gear sigh
The ability/button to message you is disabled in Thunder, but you can hit me up with any public contact method I have, just check my site (username + .com).
Edit: got one :)
You're 'grossed out' by a natural desire shared with all humanity? I just go where the source is. If I told you that I was grossed out because you take private transportation to a corporate-run supermarket and support them by making purchases there, while that store sells items made by some of the worst companies in the world... what is your rebuttal exactly?
There's many hills to die on, with much bigger impact on the world right now. Using Twitter/X to get (some of) my porn is pretty damn low on that list.
Edit: lots of people seem to be very concerned about my porn, which says volumes about themselves~
Because there's no viable replacement.
Before you or someone else mentions Mastodon (and probably compare it to the Reddit migration to Lemmy; I've been through this conversation before): Both Twitter and Mastodon are built on the concept of following people. If those people don't migrate to another platform, then the people following them won't migrate, either.
But Reddit and Lemmy are built on the concept of following ideas. It doesn't matter if one person who, for example, enjoys anime, only stays on Reddit. Others who who enjoy anime may move to Lemmy and become part of one or more of the anime communities on Lemmy instead.
Basically, the comparison isn't 1-to-1.
Mastodon
Or, if you must use something corporate, Threads or Bluesky.
Porn. The porn side of Twitter is still intact and really quite... okay I was gonna say "wholesome" but maybe I should say "holesome"? Ehh? Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh?
...anyway.
That said, a lot of adult content creators have been creating accounts on bsky once they get invites. If bsky opens up more there could actually be an exodus.
Only three of my Twitter porn creators are on bs so far (out of ~100), but one of those is very... important (?) to me. He's a lanky tall hung uncut sub and nudist. Whenever I check Twitter, I'd always go to his page first.
We only need a few creators like that to tip the scale heavily, imo. Good content, large audience, regular updates, just nudging their viewers a bit.
It annoys me more than it should every time I read that. Like one person gets to sit down every day and make some proclamation, and now everyone else has to go along with it.
I'm not sure what is better, but even something like "X/Twitter" might be easier than repeatedly saying "X, formerly known as Twitter"
...if they're reporting the unreportable, how is it unreportable?
Report reported, reporter.
Or block the unblockable
Row row fight the powah!
You talk like a book 😘
I wasn’t sure if we were quoting Evil Activities’ Invincible!
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.
Orrr, another solution is... what, class?
I almost feel sorry for the mindless twits still using that platform.
And yet they still are. And yet you still complain that they still are. And yet you whinge that they aren't elsewhere.
If twitter is dead then why are you still talking about it?
Downvote Musk spam.
The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring him and his businesses stay in the headlines every day. Don’t be a useful idiot.
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.
Yes. Scroll to the bottom of the article. The ads all look like related stories (“sponsored content” section on verge). That’s how most sites do it too, and actually most are way worse and look more like related news without any sponsored content indication.
It’s nothing new. It’s as normal as google putting sponsored ads as the first page of results, which look like search results and also can’t be blocked or reported.
These were blocked successfully by blokada (didn't even need pihole for them). Unfortunately it's a subscription on iOS, but it's still free on android!
These look to be the culprit: z.moatads.com, cdn.concert.io, api.parsely.com, ak.sail-horizon.com, static.narrativ.com, syndication.twitter.com, www.googletagmanager.com
Those were blocked by my current lists, and no weird ads appeared on that page; I hope this helps!
Any idea how to block ads in the Twitter Android app? Or, rather, which sites to block? I'm using AdGuard to block ads on all apps, but it doesn't seem to affect the Twitter app. Either the Twitter app runs ads differently or the ads aren't part of any of the blocklists.
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.
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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
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