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Reddit embracing all out enshittification (arstechnica.com)

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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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[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 135 points 2 months ago

“With Dynamic Product Ads, brands can tap into the rich, high-intent product conversations that people come to Reddit for," Reddit EVP of Business Marketing and Growth Jim Squires said in a statement.

Gross.

[-] Entropywins@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

It makes me so mad...it's like a company butting into a conversation me and a friend are having in person.

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