Promoted
Week from Monday 19th June 2023 - Like everybody else I 'speak to', my HOBBY at the moment is letting Twitter know how I feel about those "PROMOTED" adverts by blocking or muting them, and/or clicking "I don't like this ad" for EVERY SINGLE ONE. I doubt it will deter Elmo from trying to make our timelines look like old copies of "EXCHANGE & MART", but it's quite satisfying in itself. I'm sure there might be 'algorithms' involved somewhere along the way, but at the moment it's like they're flailing around trying different things.
As usual.
One day, all the adverts are for 'shops' selling silly gadgets and doodads. The next day there's a run on BETTING sites... Today, I notice that it's mostly incomprehensible bollox about BITCOIN. All are dismissed accordingly...
Interestingly, if I log-in on FIREFOX on m'laptop, there aren't ANY of these ads visible. uBLOCK ORIGIN seems to be doing its job. Hoorah! for uBlock Origin, says I! It's only Twitter's mobile APP that's troubled. But using Twitter on a desktop browser is so fraught with OTHER problems, that it's still a kerfuffle to use as one's 'primary source'. Meanwhile, if you try to access Twitter via the internet browser on your PHONE, you get on-screen messages nagging you that it's 'BETTER' to use the app. They're deliberately 'steering' you towards the app, by making the alternatives less comfortable to use. Because that's where the ads are at.
Sod's Law dictates that the TREK team will only do well in a race if I'm not watching! MATTIAS SKJELMOSE has won the TOUR OF SWITZERLAND, even beating the allegedly 'unbeatable' Remco Evanepoel. But it's been carried on one of those telly channels that you have to pay extra for (no doubt hosted by that contrivedly weird presentation team of 'characters'), so I've had to enjoy it mostly in 'text' form on m'Twitter. The women's version of the Swiss race has started now, and the TREK ladies are doing well in that too. Then there's all the national championships dotted around the world this week, to determine who gets to fly their own flags on their bodies, in time for the TOUR DE FRANCE.
As usual.
One day, all the adverts are for 'shops' selling silly gadgets and doodads. The next day there's a run on BETTING sites... Today, I notice that it's mostly incomprehensible bollox about BITCOIN. All are dismissed accordingly...
Interestingly, if I log-in on FIREFOX on m'laptop, there aren't ANY of these ads visible. uBLOCK ORIGIN seems to be doing its job. Hoorah! for uBlock Origin, says I! It's only Twitter's mobile APP that's troubled. But using Twitter on a desktop browser is so fraught with OTHER problems, that it's still a kerfuffle to use as one's 'primary source'. Meanwhile, if you try to access Twitter via the internet browser on your PHONE, you get on-screen messages nagging you that it's 'BETTER' to use the app. They're deliberately 'steering' you towards the app, by making the alternatives less comfortable to use. Because that's where the ads are at.
PP - They're taking the piss with these desperately random adverts now, aren't they? Folding shovels?It also confirms my previous statement that TWITTER thinks it's mainly run for the benefit of 'CERTAIN KINDS OF AMERICANS' who can't comprehend the existence of a world outside their own bubble. The number of ads which are just strings of baffling, self-indulgent, 'creative' bizspeak, gibberish to anyone outside of some wanky boardroom, are increasing daily. I block those ones straight away, mainly because I don't have a clue what it is they're 'selling' anyway! Uncle Frank summed it up (forty-odd years ago!) in the lyrics of "COCAINE DECISIONS"...
RD - Saw one this morning for a copper mine.
PP - Perhaps that's who the folding shovels are for? Twitter is now just a disused copper mine full of Hawaiian-shirted blokes with military-grade folding shovels... and a spare can of WD-40.
PP - So it's mostly BETTING sites today? Block block block block blocked.
PP - ...and today it's mostly incomprehensible shit about BITCOINS... Block(chain) block(chain) blocked.
PP - Today's fun pastime: Any "promoted" adverts for crypto bollocks or incomprehensible (to me) business opportunities. Deffo be blocked. Don't try and tell me there are any algorithms involved in the "targetting". This is just random flailing about.
DM - Alcohol, gambling and arms dealers, automatic block!
PP - I had a run on gambling sites a couple of days ago.
DM - My guess is @Twitter and @elonmusk aren't big on ESG or any kind of ethical advertising just as long as he makes money.
PP - I guess he is making revenue from it whichever way. But sooner or later, those who are paying for advertising will realise they're throwing money down the toilet if nobody is responding - only muting & blocking! If you make adverts an annoyance, then people take steps to make 'em go away. In these times it's a flawed business model.
Sod's Law dictates that the TREK team will only do well in a race if I'm not watching! MATTIAS SKJELMOSE has won the TOUR OF SWITZERLAND, even beating the allegedly 'unbeatable' Remco Evanepoel. But it's been carried on one of those telly channels that you have to pay extra for (no doubt hosted by that contrivedly weird presentation team of 'characters'), so I've had to enjoy it mostly in 'text' form on m'Twitter. The women's version of the Swiss race has started now, and the TREK ladies are doing well in that too. Then there's all the national championships dotted around the world this week, to determine who gets to fly their own flags on their bodies, in time for the TOUR DE FRANCE.
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