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Pre-IPO Reddit lets ads be dressed up as promoted user posts (www.theregister.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Well, look at that. Ads disguised as posts.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 79 points 9 months ago (4 children)

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.

[โ€“] xantoxis 30 points 9 months ago (3 children)

That is wild. Are you sure it's not the author of that comment editing their post to become an ad? Screenshot?

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