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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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[-] b3an@lemmy.world 38 points 7 months ago

Same! Also a Kagi subscriber. Hello! I thought Reddit might cave on the 3rd party thing for a while. Then they were doubling down and treated the developers of those apps like shit. I was a happy Apollo user, and I trusted what he said about how Reddit acted. I moved to Lemmy. It was confusing at the start but now I feel as at home here as I did in Reddit. If not more actually, since our user base is smaller, I feel like community is closer and has a little more tech know-how too. I do miss some fun Reddit things but I think Lemmy and the fediverse has a ton of potential and I want to be part of it ☺️

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 months ago

I was considering Kagi but the the CEO is a maniac

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I don't actually think that's the case - my reading of that whole kerfuffle was that the blogger had overreacted.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

Agreed, but they both did in my opinion. I’ll stick with StartPage and DDG, myself.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Really? Do you use this criteria for everything in your life? Show me a ceo that isn't a maniac and I'll show you someone that hasnt had a proper psychological screening. Lemmy has blown up the lore on this guy anyway. Not much evidence he's any more of an asshole than most ceos.

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