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.

  • @kakes
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    125 days ago

    Same here - mid 30s and I use the term to refer to this phenomenon. I meant more to address the over-use of it on Lemmy (and perhaps elsewhere online).
    More of an observation than a condemnation, I suppose.

      • @kakes
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        125 days ago

        I would be curious to see the demographics, but you might be right. Seems like a lot of 30-40-ish people around here.