Well, look at that. Ads disguised as posts.
Haven’t they had ads disguised as posts for years now?
I dunno, uBlock never showed any.
fuck spez, fuck Reddit
I remember them showing up in the mobile apps, before I discovered third party apps.
Third party apps? BANNED from /r/pyongyang
Sort of. At least on old reddit, sponsored posts were in a light blue box. Now it sounds like they have a little gray “sponsored” somewhere on it.
Steve doesn’t care as long as he can extract money before the repercussions hit. That’s why he didn’t care about alienating so many people that volunteered their time and energy, he’s counting on their being enough momentum to get through the IPO so he can
stealtake the money he thinks he’s entitled to… he doesn’t give a single shit what happens after because he won’t be there and will just blame everyone else.yep, my thought too. it was one of the big red flags for me awhile back
They’re clearly marked as such kind of like promoted tweets.
All I see when I surf there is
YOU HAVE BEEN BANNED SITEWIDE (for breaking the rules of /r/pyongyang)
If you believe that this ban might have beeen made in error, then you may want to try to and go fuck yourself. Ommkay buddy? Ommkay.
Guerilla marketing. Partisan PR. Jihadi advertisers.
I thought this was illegal in most countries
Which is whythey’re now under investigation from the FTC.edit: FTC not FCC edit 2: looks like they’re being investigated about AI, not ads.
Which is why they’re now under investigation from the FCC.
Ummm, no, they aren’t. They’re under investigation by the FTC for their deal that allows Google to train AI on user content. The FCC is not conducting the inquiry and it has nothing to do with these ads.
It’s really annoying that people can just make things up and it gets upvoted because nobody actually reads the damn articles.
Another reason I really look forward for them being sued in Europe - This is a highly illegal practice in the EU and has already brought sizeable penalties for various other media outlets, both conventional and online.
And weeks ago the Dutch and German consumer protection agencies as well as the GDPR ombudsman already commented that they are looking into Reddit (Reddit has it’s European office in Amsterdam).
That will be fun.
Never Interfere With an Enemy While He’s in the Process of Destroying Himself
- Napoleon Dynamite, inventor of ice cream
I wonder if an email to european consumer protection would help speed things along
What about two emails? Can you do that? Aye. I can do that.
I can testify if the need me to. Reddit made me feel strange and betrayed and hurt, exactly here here and here on the doll.
Also all the things they (reddit) claim in this article i call BS. Specially so close to the ipo.
The former mod of /r/jailbait has everything under control. The IPO is going to be a huge success, no doubt about it.
You know what’s wild?
I have seen them replace the top comment on a post with an ad.
Literally still have all the responses to it that are now completely out of place, but treating it like it’s naturally in there. And also it means the top comment (which might have been a bot anyways) has just been taken over by reddit and used to sell ad space.That is wild. Are you sure it’s not the author of that comment editing their post to become an ad? Screenshot?
My partner still visits reddit on mobile (the communities they want just are not here and they don’t like to post), I know when showing me something we’ve clicked on a post to have to scroll past a “Presented” comment (ad), the communities stickied bot comment, then we finally get to the first real comment only for it to be some highly upvoted joke comment. Sprinkle in bots and native ad’s, I seriously don’t understand still putting up with it. It’s like saying a shopping complex is still a social hot spot like a mall was back in the day.
Not that I would be shocked or anything, yeah I can see it happening no doubt. Source though.
Here is what one of these ads looks like:
https://www.reddit.com/u/PhillyCanada/s/O52X2oGf5V
It does not appear to be labeled as an ad on the Reddit mobile app.
This is how it’s looks. No notification anywhere that is an ad post.
Jesus Christ, 1.5k upvotes on an ad. I know it didn’t say it explicitly but it does read very much like an ad
What are the chances the upvotes are fake though?
100% chance
Reddit would not let actual sentiment be shown, which is part of why the comments are locked (archived). If you’re an advertiser they’ll bend over backwards to please you. Guaranteed.
5 years ago people were down voting ads to oblivion. Now? They’ve got controls for that.
Pretty sure the votes don’t work on the ads. Why would they, every ad would get down voted into oblivion and not show up on people’s feeds. It reminds me of the fake comments on Facebook ads. “Pre-ordered my shwami blankets, can’t wait!”
🤢
Yeah this is really scary. Maybe the golden thing on the top right is supposed to be the marking? But this is clearly not clearly marked. Should be easy to sack in a court.
This may be on purpose though. They communicate to their future shareholders that they will do everything - legal and illegal - to make profit and pay dividends.
I think that’s the icon for archived posts, not ads marking.
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Why are there so many comments in the thread going “Omg great ad/marketing idea!!”, that’s so weird…
I wonder if a lot of that is astroturfing.
even lemmy has astroturfing. i guarantee reddit’s push to tighten API usage etc was partially to ensure only paid / approved astroturfing was possible
Lemmy has astroturfing? Where??? The Linux bros? They just seem like they REALLY love Linux (and good for them, everyone needs hobbies).
Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but this referenced ad post is over a year old. There’s been “organic” guerilla marketing by advertisers on Reddit for almost a decade now. How is this relevant to the recent changes?
The context is in the article posted. This was one of the early experiments for the new ad platform. Looks like they did some simple test by coordinating things manually, then once they validated the concept, they spent the year building out a platform and interface for advertisers.
Ahhh I had a bit of a, didn’t read the article, moment and that was the missing context for me. I appreciate you clarifying!
Wtf is up with the comments… They’re all congratulating the marketing to for a good campaign? Saying they’re buying the shit.
It’s gone now, on www. and old. via browser. “Page not found” with a pic of that snoo crying under a hot sun because he bought the pre-IPO shares, lol.
This has been the case for ages so it’s not anything new.
More of their bullshitery. I had the audacity to use my browser to click a reddit link.
Yup, they’re forcing people towards the app because it allows them to collect telemetry data. Your browser walls them off so they can’t data mine your device, but the app gives them full control. It’s why so many services and companies have switched to apps instead of mobile sites; An app allows them to collect and sell your data.
Gotta juice up those numbers before IPO so executives can sell their stock and leave others to hold the bag
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