The easiest way to block these ads is to stop using X.
X rolls out new ad format that can't be reported, blocked
Submitted 1 year ago by TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://mashable.com/article/twitter-x-new-clickbait-ad-format
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AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de 1 year ago
How much would it cost to show 2girls1cup as umskipable ad to musk fanboys? Asking for a friend…
Quereller@lemmy.one 1 year ago
That would be…
… priceles.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 year ago
the new ad format also doesn’t disclose … that it is even an advertisement at all.
Well, that’s clearly illegal in most places. Ads have to be somehow identifyable as ads, because of misinformation (ads lie, who thought?). Just wait for the court case.
HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Im starting to think that is their game, doing whatever is illegal until caught by a court of law, and then find ways to do it without getting caught.
derpgon@programming.dev 1 year ago
Or the fine is so small it’s just a “cost of doing business”
planish@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Well they clearly aren’t normal posts, so I guess they’re obviously ads?
Also Twitter is one man who hates laws now, so most places might need to see about enforcing that.
Pratai@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
It blows my mind that there are people dumb enough to remain on this shit platform. There’s no excuses. If you remain, you’re in support of that trash.
Fades@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Many people will cry about Musk ruining the only place on the internet to get news and stay current
Like give me a fucking break lol, that was never the case and it sure as hell ain’t the case now. These morons are so sure he bought it just to kill it, as if that’s some great loss.
Fucking losers, it’s a shit slice of social media, walk away ffs
baelem@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Where do I go for hyperlocal updates from advocates in my area in subjects I’m engaged in? How do I get the word out about the projects I’m working on in those subjects? Calling me a fucking loser for staying somewhere that’s the only place to do some things is not going to accomplish anything but make me think you don’t know what you’re talking about.
clanginator@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Twitter was absolutely special when it came out. It was the first (or at the very least first successful) social media designed for mobile use. It also had large effects on how people thought about and used social media, and had big impacts on the ways various companies and people interact on social media.
I’ve never particularly cared about twitter personally, I used it a handful of times here and there. But saying it was never special is a stretch at best.
You_Are_Breathing@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I used to use the excuse of using Twitter to get my news, but I gave up after the rebranding. Now I just go to the news organizations’ websites.
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
You preaching to the choir buddy.
sock@lemmy.world 1 year ago
that’s lemmys specialty
the linux bros have to talk to the choir nobody else wants to talk to them
Kevnyon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Literally cannot get hockey updates from any other platforms. Those journalists just simply have not moved to another platform.
Critical_Insight@feddit.uk 1 year ago
I’ve asked for a compelling reason to leave many times before, and so far people have failed to provide me one, but since you’re so smart, lets hear it it then.
Pohl@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The lax restrictions on nazi speech. It’s now part of the platform. The platform tacitly endorses hatred. Your attention legitimizes the platform and the nazis. It’s time to walk away, you have a moral obligation.
I get it you have an addiction to the website. We need to start talking about social media addiction without sneering. It’s a dopamine release machine and we are big stupid apes. I’m here on lemmy because it is like methadone to get me off Reddit.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 year ago
- it’s a failing platform run by one of the most chaotic people in existence; everything you make there will literally or figuratively go up in smoke, from the posts to the connections
- everything you make there is currently lining the pockets of a racist, lying nationalist
- it’s losing at an alarming rate while being beholden to the debt caused by the leveraged buyout that sold out to the aforementioned chaotic bro, meaning that they’re increasingly desperate to make money and will take more and more morally dubious deals in order to stay afloat
- the racism is a feature, not a bug, tacitly and overtly endorsed by the current owner
- the misinformation is a feature, not a bug, tacitly and overtly endorsed by the current owner
- the nationalism is a feature, not a bug, tacitly and overtly endorsed by the current owner
- they’re systematically stripping user control and transparency out of the platform, from ads and targeting to user blocking to outgoing links
- they’re absolutely going to keep putting every useful feature behind Twitter Blue or whatever they’re calling it these days
- uptime might be stable for now, but as soon as more bills become due it’s going to tank again
- a venerable and respected platform has been reduced to this in a matter of months because of one man’s ego and hubris
- the longer you delay in building a new platform and new habits only makes it harder for you to do so when all this finally does become too much for you
These are only eleven reasons. I have many more, some personal and some universal. If at all possible, get off of Twitter.
Pratai@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I’m just going to downvote you. There are TONS of compelling reasons to leave twitter. I’m not going to bother listing them as you have proven unworthy of the respect deserved of such a request.
Now kindly and quietly go fuck off somewhere. Your bad-faith rebuttal isn’t welcome here.
Jaysyn@kbin.social 1 year ago
ultratiem@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Elon investigated himself and said he found no evidence of wrongdoing tho!
/s
Uniquitous@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Easy enough, just add ‘*.twitter.com’ to your blocklist.
Hiccup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I’ve already filtered them out from searches. Might as well do this as well.
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Can’t see ads if you don’t use Twitter
Kase@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Can’t see ads on twitter :/
dutchkimble@lemy.lol 1 year ago
Don’ start nothin’ Won’t be nothin’
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Ads can either be identified and blocked, or they are so hidden that the FTC gets involved.
This is a no-win situation for Twitter.
tryptaminev@feddit.de 1 year ago
Also it sounds like a great way for malware distributors to be unidentifiable and Musks little shitshow to take the full criminal responsibility instead.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Why do people keep calling it “X” so cringe.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The Twitter brand was one of the only things of actual value at that company. If Elon wants to shoot himself in the dick, I’m not going to stop that moron. X it is. I will GLADLY not call this product Twitter.
SHITPOSTING_ACCOUNT@feddit.de 1 year ago
I’m not gonna risk my computer by turning off my ad blocker, but I wonder if that article comes with exactly the kind of chumbox ads that they’re rightfully criticizing.
Critical_Insight@feddit.uk 1 year ago
There’s 9 ads between the chapters of that article and one that follows you on the side of the screen as you scroll
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If it has a link it can be blocked. Just block by content instead of by node path.
brlemworld@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Isn’t this against Apple and Google app stores terms?
Asudox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
no? since when were they anti ad?
solidgrue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I should probably close my account over there, but then I’d have to log in.
Decisions, decisions.
ZeroCool@feddit.ch 1 year ago
[deleted]Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 1 year ago
The aerospace industry has a term: "Controlled flight into terrain."
I'm guessing the Saudis - who bankrolled Elon's purchase of Twitter - were upset about the Arab Spring, and helped Elon fly it into a goddamn mountain.
SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
That would mean he’s somewhat of a plan for the crash, this is uncontrolled
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah every day is a little too often for me to want to hear about Elon and Twitter, honestly. Even the schadenfreude isn’t that important to me.
NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 1 year ago
Have you met @AcidBurn yet?
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 1 year ago
Shit, now I'm mad I didn't get @CerealKiller
Furedadmins@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve blocked all Twitter ads since it got taken over by hate groups and will continue to successfully block them forever.
Borkingheck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How?
Furedadmins@lemmy.world 1 year ago
By deleting the app and never looking at the website.
guywithoutaname@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The FTC would like to have a word. At least they have a spine.
bignate@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
“can’t [yet] be blocked” This is the claim of every new advertiser platform. Looking forward to it being blocked (and not because I’m on X, just because I’m excited to see them burn).
vidarh@lemmy.stad.social 1 year ago
When they say “can’t be blocked” I presume they mean “can’t be blocked with the block function in X/Twitter”. They also say it can’t be liked or retweeted.
So far ads have been treated as sort-of regular posts that are just shown according to the ad rules rather than because they belong in the timeline under normal criteria, and you could like, retweet and block them just like any other post.
So this is basically them treating ads as a fully separate thing rather than just a different post type.
Though the article suggests they’ll still try to make them look mostly like posts, except without showing a handle etc. though, which is extra scummy
Zoidberg@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Can’t wait to have an AI based ads remover that rewrites the page HTML and removes all ads.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Well, now we know why they removed headlines from the article cards.
Borkingheck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ads have gotten way worse in quality. I keep seeing stuff that makes Temu look like top tier. Recently community notes jhave added context noting these adverts are for dropshipping services and there is no guarantee you will get the advertised product.
That and so many funking places wanting my email to send me top tips on life, money, crypto or w.e.
I’m genuinely glad when I see a normal funking advert for pizza or a charity or a film, there’s something happening with that dicaprio guy and scorsee director.
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Bold claim, that. Don’t underestimate my unwillingness to not watch ads
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Seems like Elon is trying to accelerate the collapse of his $44B boat anchor
uwe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s not collapsing fast enough. Bluesky and threads are both pretty dead. The userbase just doesn’t leave, no matter what happens.
…just like with this place… :P
ModsAreCopsACAB@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’m only really there for porn nowadays. Deleted my regular account.
papel@lemmyf.uk 1 year ago
How is it compared to just browsing booru-like sites, or video sites?
ModsAreCopsACAB@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I can follow specific people instead, so that’s a plus for me, as opposed to I assume having to pay for this function in most other websites. (Although if X starts asking for money with a subscription I will certainly drop it)
chrishazfun@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Existence on Twitter just feels like hell on earth at this point, like beyond the Facebook critical mass/“they won’t try anything else out”-esque line of reasoning staying there just comes across like some admission of masochism or something.
Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 year ago
Wonder what the ASA in the UK are goona do.
IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Who?
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Example 4489754 of the enshittification of the internet.
fat_stig@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Control Panel for Twitter users:
What’s a “For you Feed?”
thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Anyway
Rocha@lm.put.tf 1 year ago
Doesn’t Youtube do this, at least with shorts?
I’m tired of seeing ads on “how you can make 15$ watching one video and earning 20k in a month doing almost nothing”.
JPSound@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you use android, Youtube Vanced is your answer. I haven’t seen a single ad on youtube in years. It even skips the sponsorship segments if you want it to.
Rocha@lm.put.tf 1 year ago
I say this as I’m using Revanced. I only see ads on the shorts, though.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Circling the drain.
Heresy_generator@kbin.social 1 year ago
So on one hand they're cluttering user feeds with the spammiest ads they can and on the other hand they're rolling out paid subscriptions to remove ads.
athos77@kbin.social 1 year ago
Didn't they also remove some of the things that indicated a post was "sponsored" or whatever?
SevFTW@feddit.de 1 year ago
Pretty sure that’s illegal under EU law
Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Yes, though it was unclear if that was a feature or a bug. Since their dev team was decimated, the site has been struggling to even do basic maintenance and security updates.
NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The author of the article determined that these ads are coming from the trashy ad networks that brought you such classic clickbait ads as “Doctors hate this one weird trick” and “[Current President] has slashed auto insurance rates in [your state], here’s how” that you see at the bottom of low quality news articles. So, it’s not just that X has spam ads, but they aren’t even directly selling them, which the article summarizes is a sign of desperation to get any ads, no matter how shit in quality, no matter how low paying to X they are, on the platform. At least the low tier news sites have the decency to identify them as ads and label the ad networks that is putting them up.
SkyNTP@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I despise Twitter’s leadership as much as the rest, but increasing ads is not at all a “cause a problem” situation Twitter doesn’t owe you ad-free usage of their platform. So no, not a scam, just bad value.
And you don’t owe Twitter your patronage. So just move on from it.
morgan_423@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You do realize that the actual issue is that this is kind of thing is going to be normalized, so that it can spread like a plague across the entire corporate-touched internet, objectively making the entire thing as a whole objectively worse… right?
Because it sure doesn’t seem like it with that reply.
Hegar@kbin.social 1 year ago
Tech executives would disagree with you - creating a problem that users have to buy their way out of is one of the most popular business models going at the moment. The mobile gaming industry, for example, is basically $140B worth of intentionally created frustration.
There's been so much written about this obviously scummy practice. It's everywhere.
It's either naive or disingenuous to suggest they're not obviously trying to annoy cash out of people.
Uniquitous@lemmy.one 1 year ago
It’s my bandwidth. If I don’t want to use it to download ads, I don’t have to.
blargerer@kbin.social 1 year ago
They are allowed to try and monetize in various ways, but there are still ethical standards that are just consistently not followed in online advertising (like doing due-diligence to make sure the company advertising isn't some sort of transparent scam). But this change seems to be stepping away from one of the standards that is actually a legal mandate, properly labeling adverts and sponsored content as such.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Even if X wasn’t trying to make a profit. They still have cost to cover.
I don’t use it. Never have. Never saw any value in it.
I still have yet to understand Elon’s strategy with it but it’s his billions to waste.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well on our way to All-Despising Baby Skull