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X runs ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film (techcrunch.com)
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Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” — which gives advertisers “priority access to logged-in users’ first impression of the day” — conservative media nonprofit PragerU is promoting the hashtag “#DETRANS” to advertise its new film about “the stories of detransitioners.”

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[–] dynamojoe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every day I miss my twitter account less and less. I now wish there was a way I could block twitter content inside news articles and such.

[–] bloopernova@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We've got it blocked at our router. The DNS server just responds with no such address.

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hijacking twitter DNS queries and redirecting to a page that only serves images of cats.