I forgot Mastodon was on F-Droid, shoulda checked there first

  • CaptainAlcohol@lemmy.world
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    This is a sponsored app, if you notice it’s an add. They likely paid to get there. The actual search result is below the add

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

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          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.

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        Not really, his supporters are dumping so much money for his legal defences, he’s got 3 PAC, of which he’s using 2. On top of that it appears that he’s OK with investing his own money if that weren’t enough. And he’s got billions of private funds…

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          Sure, but the company behind TS is in big financial troubles. The raised money definitely doesn’t go into TS itself.

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      Yeah, but ads are supposed to be enticing; that was supposed to be part of the joke but apparently neither worked haha