[VERGE] X users report unlabeled clickbait ads that you can’t block or report
[VERGE] X users report unlabeled clickbait ads that you can’t block or report
The ads look like regular posts at first glance.
[ sourced from The Verge ]
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Mashable reports that users on X, formerly known as Twitter, have seen unlabeled ads in their feeds while scrolling through the company’s mobile apps.
When users tap them, they’re taken to other websites, with no way to block or report them.
Unlike normal ads that are just posts from company X accounts and have an “Ad” label, these new ones have no account associated with them.
If you’re just scrolling, the embedded image and clickbait-style text might make you think it’s just another post.
A “profile” picture made from the embedded image completes the illusion.
Neither I nor my colleagues at The Verge have seen the new ads in our own feeds.
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