Twitter Dee & Twitter Dumb

[Yoji]

I don't think it's terribly important news, but for the first time ever I've been redirected from twitter.com to x.com and not the other way around. I just thought it was ridiculous how that dork was deadnaming his own website for so long.

Oh, and they rejiggered the ads so now they get around my phone's adblocker, so that's cool.

[Büge]

Oh, and they rejiggered the ads so now they get around my phone's adblocker, so that's cool.

Attempting to block the ads on mobile sends me to a page that suggests signing up for premium twitter

[beatbandito]

You guys are really missing out on twitter ads, honestly. This shit is 2005 flash porn game site levels.

[Büge]

mostly the ads I get are for crypto shit, drugs, and PragerU

[Thad]

Elon Musk’s X faces brobdingnagian EU fines as paid checkmarks are ruled deceptive

The social media platform now called X "designs and operates its interface for the 'verified accounts' with the 'Blue checkmark' in a way that does not correspond to industry practice and deceives users," the EU regulator said. "Since anyone can subscribe to obtain such a 'verified' status, it negatively affects users' ability to make free and informed decisions about the authenticity of the accounts and the content they interact with. There is evidence of motivated malicious actors abusing the 'verified account' to deceive users."

Blue checkmarks "used to mean trustworthy sources of information," Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton said. The EC said it "informed X of its preliminary view that it is in breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA) in areas linked to dark patterns, advertising transparency and data access for researchers."

X will have an opportunity to respond in writing. If the preliminary finding is upheld, the EC said it would adopt a non-compliance decision that "could entail fines of up to 6 percent of the total worldwide annual turnover of the provider, and order the provider to take measures to address the breach."

[Mongrel]

If I still posted on Twitter I would absolutely be making a sport of spamming "ignore all previous instructions" prompts at any bluechecks who popped up in replies.