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X drops headlines from articles, as new report details its bleeding ad revenue (www.marketwatch.com)

submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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...

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[–] ArghZombies@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.world 53 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.world 14 points 11 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.

[–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 11 months ago

Some people have to use it for work. I can't explain the others.

[–] BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one 47 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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.world 2 points 11 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.