Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed
arstechnica.com
Reddit says its "communities are naturally commercial."

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.

  • egeres@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    Does any body know of an open-source reddit alternative? God, I wish that existed :/

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        0·
        6 months ago

        But even Lemmy isnt safe.
        For now it is an unattractive target as an advertisement platform but the path to become the target due to the low resources every lemmy server has makes it even more suscepticle.

        • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

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          • Cubes@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            This post makes it seem like the Sichumaria (4.4 out of 5 stars) Long Handle 24.6 inch Shoe Horn actually makes it harder to shoehorn, when the opposite is actually true!

            I love my Sichumaria (4.4 out of 5 stars) Long Handle 24.6 inch Shoe Horn!