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Reddit embracing all out enshittification (arstechnica.com)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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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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[โ€“] dual_sport_dork 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We all knew this day was coming. And, I suspect, knowing this is precisely why most of us are here.

[โ€“] Spiritreader 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's just incredibly funny that the site that tried to fight spam and ad bots because it harms user experience is now implementing spam and ad bots to harm user experience.

Obviously that's okay because it's their spam and ad bots!