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This is a bit silly. Are there any ads that people do trust?
Now ads are just scams
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Then what do i move to? No linux laptop feels as good to touch as the aluminum macbooks, and in terms of phones it can't get any worse than the ads-and-trackers shitshow that is android...
my goodness we lived with plastic thinkpads for decades and many of us still happily do. this fetish for "premium" hardware to be replaced every two years by the newest hottest thing (if that's not you: great, the planet thanks you) is just plain weird from the outside.
It’s hard to explain but it is like some subconscious filtering that occurs on a preRecognise hook or something. Weird.
Why would Apple enshittify their News app in this way when there are so many legitimate advertisers out there? It seems obviously damaging to their brand, so it makes no sense to me.
I own multiple personal Mac computers, an iPhone, an Apple Watch, iPad Pro, a few HomePods, and a few Apple TV devices. I’ve already proven that I’m willing to pay for a product even when there are cheaper alternatives. Why they decided to make News a paid subscription with ads — especially low-quality ads is beyond me.
I’ve gotten to the point where I’ve deleted the News, Stocks, and Weather apps, and will just remove any additional apps they decide to chuck in. It’s a real shame their aggressive pursuit of services revenue is destroying what is a great hardware ecosystem.
Nice - Another post shaming Apple for a problem which the entire internet faces. I'll load up Facebook right now and get the same things. Google? The same. And to no surprise, ads like these break Apple's ad content guidelines[1]. OP should figuratively put down the video camera and go perform CPR. Report the Ad. Make the internet a better place. [1]: https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/adguide/apd527d891a8/1...
I love how, on the "I am retiring page", the image of the old woman even has artifacts of the Gemini logo on the bottom right - someone very probably manually tried to blur them with a tool that was not meant for blurring. Somehow, he or she was still convinced and put it up.
Because the sets of people who would give money to this and people who notice the Gemini logo are disjoint.
I would imagine it might be the same with those ads.
Nice - Another post shaming Apple for a problem which the entire internet faces. I'll load up Facebook right now and get the same things. Google? The same. And to no surprise, ads like these break Apple's ad content guidelines[1]. OP should figuratively put down the video camera and go perform CPR. Report the Ad. Make the internet a better place. [1]: https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/adguide/apd527d891a8/1...
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Then what do i move to? No linux laptop feels as good to touch as the aluminum macbooks, and in terms of phones it can't get any worse than the ads-and-trackers shitshow that is android...
my goodness we lived with plastic thinkpads for decades and many of us still happily do. this fetish for "premium" hardware to be replaced every two years by the newest hottest thing (if that's not you: great, the planet thanks you) is just plain weird from the outside.
Nice - Another post shaming Apple for a problem which the entire internet faces. I'll load up Facebook right now and get the same things. Google? The same. And to no surprise, ads like these break Apple's ad content guidelines[1]. OP should figuratively put down the video camera and go perform CPR. Report the Ad. Make the internet a better place. [1]: https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/adguide/apd527d891a8/1...
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Where does the author claim or even remotely suggest that?
They only NOW assume all ads are scams. Suggests they didn't make that assumption before, doesn't it?
Most of the time, when people realize something, it happens NOW. Also, AI isn't even mentioned in the headline at all, and not even in the first part of the article. It's just used as one hint that it might be scam, then followed up with further evidence.