Who needs IBM anyway when you're still attracting advertisers of this calibre to your site?
👩🍳 Keep your fingers safe from sharp knives with the Stainless Steel Finger Protector!👸Get It Now👉 https://t.co/iViI1cx99C pic.twitter.com/LNY9BSbWd7— Pavevo (@pavevocom) November 5, 2023
― groovypanda, Friday, 17 November 2023 20:29 (five months ago) link
^^i definitely see more weird junk ads than anything these days, the big companies even if they haven't given it up totally certainly appear to have pulled back
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 November 2023 20:31 (five months ago) link
Why are you even all still looking at Twitter at this late date, who even posts anymore
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 17 November 2023 20:42 (five months ago) link
its still good for sports
― frogbs, Friday, 17 November 2023 20:48 (five months ago) link
xpost basically everyone who always has
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 17 November 2023 20:49 (five months ago) link
I saw one righteous defense, which was basically "I was here before you, asshole," and another funny defense, basically "the only reason I am still here is so that I can benefit financially from the inevitable class action suit."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 November 2023 20:57 (five months ago) link
xp i dont think that's remotely true, I'm barely on there myself unless it's to follow an NBA or NFL game I can't watch. when I go on otherwise it really does feel about half as active as it used to be
― frogbs, Friday, 17 November 2023 21:04 (five months ago) link
Hmm. I go on now and people are posting vids from the protests they’re at.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 17 November 2023 21:11 (five months ago) link
A lot of people I follow either have left or post much less frequently.
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 17 November 2023 21:13 (five months ago) link
people on blusky and masterdon not getting anywhere near the audience of Musk Ox's twitter
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 17 November 2023 21:24 (five months ago) link
today twitter tried to make me watch a 30-second ad before viewing a 19-second video
gtfo
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 November 2023 21:28 (five months ago) link
As someone constantly recovering from numerous self-inflicted cooking wounds, I very much like the look of that finger protector you're all being so disparaging about.
― I don't want to catastrophise but there's a catastrophe looming (Matt #2), Friday, 17 November 2023 21:31 (five months ago) link
My chrome extension still successfully keeps twitter cleaned up for me (and also keeps it called twitter). But the time has come to move on. My prob is actually the number of people I follow who *haven't* left yet. Reporters, writers, comedians. Or maybe they have and just moved somewhere other than Bluesky, but fuck scouring more than one of these sites at a time. That's like a distraction in search of a distraction. I think I'll just have to get back in the habit of getting the news *after* it happens rather than while it is happening.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 November 2023 21:38 (five months ago) link
Oh yeah, I wasn't implying that they haven't taken a big revenue hit, just more that all those big names backing away didn't do anything prevent the site as a whole from being driven directly into the fascist ditch.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 17 November 2023 21:38 (five months ago) link
A friend posted the other day "How much longer do news organizations have to say 'X (formerly known as Twitter)." It's a good question, but I think the answer is, a good long while. X is such a stupidly generic name that if you just drop it into a news story people who are not actually engaged with social media probably still don't know what it means (while they have definitely heard of Twitter).
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 17 November 2023 21:45 (five months ago) link
You can just say "the social media platform X"
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 17 November 2023 23:49 (five months ago) link
will be funny when someone else gets control of it and changes it back to twitter
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 November 2023 23:53 (five months ago) link
Elon would definitely insist on keeping his favorite domain name
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 17 November 2023 23:55 (five months ago) link
the coolest domain in the world
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 November 2023 23:56 (five months ago) link
wish i'd had the insight to see that one letter is the most badass of all
― Clay, Friday, 17 November 2023 23:58 (five months ago) link
x marks the spot, people will love it
― c u (crüt), Friday, 17 November 2023 23:59 (five months ago) link
the treasure? quite simply the most valuable thing in the world: posts
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 November 2023 00:05 (five months ago) link
i once believed that x was the most badass letter of them all
but now i ask y
― i really like that!! (z_tbd), Saturday, 18 November 2023 00:10 (five months ago) link
A friend posted the other day "How much longer do news organizations have to say 'X (formerly known as Twitter).Until the AP Stylebook changes its guidance
― jaymc, Saturday, 18 November 2023 01:30 (five months ago) link
The thing about those ads is that no ad has ever influenced me to buy an IBM or Apple, but I've definitely impulse-purchased cool, dumb gadgets that have shown up in my social media feeds.
― peace, man, Saturday, 18 November 2023 13:52 (five months ago) link
Ideally Musk and Trump will both just die and solve a bunch of problems big and small at once.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 18 November 2023 14:25 (five months ago) link
good piece https://maxread.substack.com/p/context-collapse-collapse
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 18 November 2023 20:56 (five months ago) link
Being reported that, go figure, Yaccarino's industry pals are strongly suggesting she jump ship.
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/20/linda-yaccarino-elon-musk-advertising-resign-x-twitter
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 20 November 2023 03:55 (five months ago) link
urged her to leave "before her reputation is damaged."
lol okay
― mookieproof, Monday, 20 November 2023 03:57 (five months ago) link
perfect for marketers to tell the media that theyve reached out to their friend
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 November 2023 04:05 (five months ago) link
Is there a chance that Linda Yaccarino is not real? That she's some sort of AI experiment?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 20 November 2023 17:27 (five months ago) link
Christ that would definitely explain her bizarrely on-point constant chirpy corpspeak.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 20 November 2023 21:09 (five months ago) link
A cynical inroad.Any ironical cad,Any racial id con....Coi (sic) Cali Ayn Rand?
Cloaca Dairy Inn!
Checks out.
― It is a disgusting... (Old Lunch), Monday, 20 November 2023 21:29 (five months ago) link
my adblocker seems to be not working on Twitter today, hopefully this'll correct itself quickly
― Tyler Perry's Cystitis (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 10:37 (five months ago) link
Same
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 12:23 (five months ago) link
Don't know about twitter, but my Adblock app started failing to block youtube ads recently. So I changed to UBlock which now works fine.
― Ste, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 12:56 (five months ago) link
I use ublock on Firefox, I think the forces of darkness are conspiring
― Tyler Perry's Cystitis (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 15:19 (five months ago) link
youtube refused to show me videos on chrome with ublock demande that i turn it off, so i switched to firefox with ublock which worked for a while but then youtube refused again, so i switched to brave which has a built in adblocker and so far thats working
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 15:29 (five months ago) link
yeah youtube is infuriating, they're very good about sniffing for any adblockers now which makes using youtube for anything long impossible. I'm not fucking paying for youtube.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 15:38 (five months ago) link
Yeah I noticed YouTube being dickish lately, thanks for the tip
― Tyler Perry's Cystitis (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 15:38 (five months ago) link
It's bad enough when the random history vids have adverts every 5 minutes
― Tyler Perry's Cystitis (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 15:39 (five months ago) link
youtube with ads is horrific
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 15:39 (five months ago) link
its interesting that adblockers work at all on youtube youd think that they could come up with a scheme where that wasnt so but maybe its just not worth their while
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 15:41 (five months ago) link
They have to encode the ads into the video streams on the fly so there wasn’t a separate request for your browser to key on
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 15:44 (five months ago) link
youtube is absolutely worth paying for if you have kids and/or ever watch youtube on something other than a computer with an ad blocker
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 15:45 (five months ago) link
what about just making the rest of the video unavailable until the length of the ad has elapsed so even if its blocked you still have to wait just to be annoying
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 15:47 (five months ago) link
i've been thinking about getting the sub that includes youtube music
― 龜, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 15:48 (five months ago) link
yeah i would prob pay for it if they foiled all my blocking schemes (switching browsers)
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 15:48 (five months ago) link
Both Firefox and Chrome UBlock work on youtube, you just need to keep your browser versions and extension/add-ons updated.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 15:48 (five months ago) link
i read somewhere that youtube is relying on fingerprinting too so you need to use a browser that has anti-fingerprinting built in like firefox or brave
youtube stopped threatening me tho so i'm still just using chrome/ublock
although relying on chrome has a whiff of 'the masters tools will never dismantle the masters house' haha
― 龜, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 15:50 (five months ago) link