Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world thaliairis @lemm.ee 1 yr. ago

Temu Ads

Every time I see a slideshow on Tik Tok, it seems like it ends with a freaking Temu ad saying some BS about how they partnered with some bigger company like Fornite or Amazon. One of the ones that really gets me is when they have an anti-capitalist slideshow which they end with an advertisement for buying stuff from Temu at a discount. 💀

The app is littered with these bots! I'm certain these are illegal and I can't believe the app hasn't cracked down on these yet.

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I don't think its particularly strange for a Chinese webapp to have advertisements for Chinese companies.

Temu has been going through some kind of advertising blitz recently, I don't use Tiktok at all but I see their ads plastered all over the place.
- It's clearly just any attempt to throw weight and gain market hold by offering crazy deals (which seem to be decreasing in value now). The idea is one you order once it's likely you might order again.
  
  I wish this kind of anti competitive practice was regulated.
- I tried Temu. It’s actually not bad. The packaging is shit, but most of the products turned out decent.
  
  Just seems like an AliExpress clone with more annoying/deceptive ads imo
Sometimes their auto-generated ads are hilarious. “Empowering women’s savings” while showing pictures of a dead rat, some weird baby costume, what I think is a sex toy…
- Wow, it's wild that they even have ads on the Associated Press.
  
  FYI platforms mostly don't choose who advertises on them. They pick some broad categories of ads that they are okay with and let an advertising provider like Google actually connect them to the advertiser.
The ads are probably better than the actual content on TikTok.
I don't think anyone is really going to substantively crack down on a Chinese media company unless it can fit into whatever culture wars are currently afoot in your country... or maybe if China invades Taiwan. But thankfully the enshitification of TikTok is well underway so maybe you won't have to worry about it much longer.
- If only. TikTok was enshittified from the start, yet people still flocked to it.
  
  Yeah, but there have already been 2 rounds of creator exoduses and engagement is down, which ups the likelihood of more creators leaving. It's starting to Tumblr.
Your effective remedy in this situation is to uninstall Tiktok.
My thoughts on TEMU: it's a CCP astroturphing campaign to overtake Amazon et al.

Their model fits that narrative imo.

First exploit citizens to increase national economic growth. They then had a monopoly on outsourced production. They began stealing IP from company's that did business with them. They flooded Amazon et al with cheap knockoff products, price wise there's no competing with them.

Now they're going to cut out the middlemen. TEMU is the latest attempt to divert what little they don't own of the marketplace to their own pockets.

Don't get me wrong, fuck all the big monopoly billionaire enabling companies of today. But right now it's then vs a stronger Chinese economy (read military) and I'll settle for the status quo until we get that dissolved.
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I've seen the same ads on Xitter whenever I bother glancing at that cesspool.

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