Elon Musk's X drops headlines from articles, as new report details its bleeding ad revenue
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Elon Musk's X revamped its look to eliminate headlines on article links Wednesday, the same day that Reuters reported the platform has seen massive monthly...

X drops headlines from articles, as new report details its bleeding ad revenue::Elon Musk’s X revamped its look to eliminate headlines on article links Wednesday, the same day that Reuters reported the platform has seen massive monthly…

  • ArghZombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1913·
    9 months ago

    For people still using Twitter, if you view it in a browser like Brave it will hide all the ads for you. Even better, you can save the webpage view as a Web App in your phone and access it that way and you barely even notice it’s the web version you’re using and not the app. I’ve not seen an ad on Twitter in months since doing that.

    • NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      53·
      9 months ago

      Considering they dismantled every control they had to prevent disinformation, and it was already a cesspool to begin with… Why are people still using Twitter?

      • ArghZombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
        194·
        9 months ago

        Sadly these still a lot of folks on there that haven’t moved elsewhere. If you curate your follower lists and don’t venture into the replies of big/ trending accounts then it’s still manageable. Mostly I just use to to read people I follow rather than post anything new myself these days.

        Also, I’ve feeds of decent journalists that I’ve built up over many years that don’t post elsewhere. There’s still that immediacy that you just don’t get elsewhere.

    • BlinkerFluid@lemmy.oneEnglish
      534·
      9 months ago

      Don’t use Brave, they push crypto incentives. Use Firefox and ublock origin, that and BAT’s chart is crap.

      but Blink, you trade crypto

      I guess I’d know, then.

      edit: fuck plebbit too

    • seaQueue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      9 months ago

      Before I dropped twatter like a bad habit I had it running nicely through Adguard and TwiFucker on Android which blocked ads as well as sponsored twats. Highly recommend if anyone is stuck using that terrible platform for some reason.