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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    6 months ago

    There’s something sad about society losing a such a unique source of knowledge, but hopefully we’ve collectively learned something about the dangers of trusting proprietary solutions.

    Anyone found a reliable way to search across Lemmy instances they can share?

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      6 months ago

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      They have not learned anything about the dangers of trusting proprietary solutions.