this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2023
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I forgot Mastodon was on F-Droid, shoulda checked there first

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It is an ad, and also a really shitty practice to display it exactly like it was the first result of your research.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I dunno, it says right there "ads related to your search"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It was designed to blend in with the search results. It's the same shitty design as the sponsored results appearing like they were the first few results of your Google or Bing search, or ads appearing as unread emails in Gmail or Hotmail.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I get it, I am just saying that companies have been doing that for a long time now, and we gotta just be computer literate enough to discern the difference. It's shitty, I agree

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