Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed

#For sale: Ads that look like legit Reddit user posts

“We highly recommend only mentioning the brand name of your product since mentioning links in posts makes the post more likely to be reported as spam and hidden. We find that humans don’t usually type out full URLs in natural conversation and plus, most Internet users are happy to do a quick Google Search,” ReplyGuy’s website reads.

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    2 months ago

    I literally only go back for one niche sub and only using that sweet, sweet adblock.

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      2 months ago

      Id do the same, but Im in a verry stupid situation, I dont have a reddit account and dont want to be advertising-group stalked due to being a sensitive subject.

      plus it was already half taken over by ads because the sex industry is bad, some of the subs are just filled with “this is a thing you can buy, look how sexy!”. I dont want what your selling, the way your selling it.

      on lemmy, the subreddit is dead, minus some guy trying to revive it. Like many others, its owner posted 5 posts, and… nobody kept the pace up. 🤕

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      2 months ago

      Agreed. I just bought a used Sony a7iii and the sonyalpha sub is a great place for knowledge.

      Granted eventually that stuff will filter off reddit… but in the mean time I’m only there on desktop with pihole and unlock origin.

      Once old.reddit dies I’ll never go back.

      Sent from my boost for Lemmy app.