"it’s possible the company could decide to ditch these ads in development builds of Windows 11 if there’s enough feedback that suggests they’re not going to be a popular addition."
No ad-blocker needed.
Zero ads.
My data stays on my server.
Interactions are genuine, driven by people's desire, not an algorithm pushing for conflict to boost engagement (and ad sales).
Nobody's here just because it's trendy. If you're here, you want to be here.
The best social media experience I've had in years.
Thank you to all of you, among these 15 million accounts, who have helped make this a wonderful place to be.
#Instagram
Selfies, ads, stories over photos, more ads, non-chronological order, even more ads, Me Me Me desperate wannabes, algorithm nightmare.
@pixelfed Serious photographers, no ads, clean, chronological timeline, still no ads, photos of so many things, not attention seeking selfies... definitely no ads, no algorithms, YOU decide what YOU want to see.
Staune immer wieder darüber, wenn #Medien von neuen „Spitzenplatz-Shopping-Apps“ oder irgendwelchen „Influencern“ sprechen und ich für mich denke: „Was ist denn das? Weshalb sollte mich das interessieren?!“
Dann danke ich meinem Social-Media-Konsum im #Fediverse und meinem fast 100%ig werbefreien Unterwegssein im #Internet. 😇
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The BBC is not just the editors of The Today Programme, or Question Time. It is not just that Panorama about ADHD or Stephen Nolan’s Stonewall podcast
The BBC is also Yasmin Finney and Ncuti Gatwa on Doctor Who. It is Newsround. It is Horrible Histories doing the Bristol bus boycott. It is CBBC dramas for children about autism. It is a platform for new music of all kinds on radio. It has no ads.
Hating “the BBC” because of Tory news editors misses the bigger picture.
It is brim full of annoying ads, even before the last wicket in the ashes they went off to advertise two programmes, so that's ads inside the f'g programme at the most crucial point.
That's worse than commercial TV.
Both are bad, and it drives me crazy that both interrupt the credits just when you are soaking up the end of a film to advertise the next f'g programme.
#NoAds ever, anywhere please. They are disruptive, rude, manipulative, disrespectful.
Ich frage mich, wann Politik, Medien und Institutionen begreifen, dass ihre Tweets auf Twitter nur von einem kleinen Kreis gesehen werden können. Sinnvoller wäre es, die kurzen Tweets endlich in Tröts umzuwandeln - die kann jeder sehen. Auch ohne Account.
After decades of complaints, a billboard at the end of the 110 Freeway in San Pedro is being dismantled. “A community can come together and fight back against a big, multi billion dollar Goliath and actually win,” City Councilor Tim Mcosker said. He shared drone video of the billboard at the end of 110 freeway coming down...
@atomicpoet
I have no issue with subscriptions and commerce/transactions.
Ads, or better saying 'commercial ads', require monopolistic power on the platform. This has been the norm since the first days of newspapers, magazines, radio, tv... and social media has been no different.
The fact is that given the choice, audiences (people) don't want ads. We gladly pay for removing them.
We all do 'Ads' all the time, when we pitch our ideas or speak about our products and services, and that is all fine as long as people freely chooses to listen to us.
Any platform expecting to monetize 'Ads', will need to force them through their audiences, and that is a fundamental abuse of the relationship, which requires some sort of power (ie. lock-in) on the platform side in order to be implemented.
This need or requirement will quickly come at odds with freedom and transportability.
If I am given the question: 'Would you pay $4 a month for half the ads?', I'd reply: 'I'd gladly pay $8 for ZERO ads'... problem is that there are many powerful actors who would happily pay a lot more for keeping them.
I think we need to think a bit more out-of-the-box here... in a world with infinite searching and indexing options, we don't need ads any more. Ads are not a solution, they are part of the problem.
We really want the content, the products, the music, the articles, the poetry, the news, the opinions, the movies, the art... and we need to pay for them to their creators... but there are many ways to do that without ads. Let's focus on those ways.
Billboard in San Pedro is being taken down after decades of complaints from residents (www.nbclosangeles.com)
After decades of complaints, a billboard at the end of the 110 Freeway in San Pedro is being dismantled. “A community can come together and fight back against a big, multi billion dollar Goliath and actually win,” City Councilor Tim Mcosker said. He shared drone video of the billboard at the end of 110 freeway coming down...