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The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X (www.bloomberg.com)
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The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X::The former Twitter is incentivizing violent content, which will only become worse to stand out to users.

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[–] sleepmode@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The ads are absolutely rampant on the burner I made. I don’t remember it ever being this bad. But my previous accounts were quite old and I rarely saw any at all back then.

[–] Critical_Insight@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can use uBlock origin to block them

[–] sleepmode@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right. I do but for this case I was using the app. Try that you’ll see what I mean about the insanity.

[–] Critical_Insight@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

I believe you. Just pointing out that ads are optional, so that's not a reason for me to leave.