• finley@lemm.ee
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    7 hours ago

    The ad on top is selected from a pool of ads from companies that paid for their placement up there. If you run the search again, it will probably show an ad for Snapchat or Instagram or something.

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      7 hours ago

      Yeah I understand why it’s there, and that you will see different ones. Just posting here because its target demographics are likely comically different from those that are interested in Pixelfed.

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        5 hours ago

        I don’t think “hates Trump” is a metric that Apple tracks, but I get your point.

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          Ha probably not, but you never know. I bet they can determine my ideologies from the publications I’ve blocked on Apple News +, but who knows what they use to build up a profile.