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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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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 1 year ago

I've seen these same kinds of posts, obviously ads and less obviously by AI on Lemmy every once in a while which started maybe a month and a half or so ago? Makes me wonder if they were testing their shit over here.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

The sad thing is, I'd probably still be using it if I wasn't one of those hit with a "Site-Wide Ban because we love power tripping!"

[-] Agrivar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Did they hit you with the one that even monitors the IP you're coming from, so even a completely new email address won't let you create a new account? That's what forced me to migrate here about a year ago!

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[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Jesus Christ it's like how you know that skull fucking grandma would be awful, but actually seeing it happen is a whole different level of fucked up.

[-] dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Lemmy Flood Gates right now.

The control room has alarms going off and on the main screen it just says “LET ‘R RIP” in blinking red letters.

[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

fire is hot, water is wet. More news at 10

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