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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish25•7 months agoAmazon is also a store, but they have sponsored listings that get preferential placement. Not technically ads, but very similar idea…
minus-squareDym SohinlinkfedilinkEnglish9•7 months agohere’s the kicker: amazon sells their own product at the public market owned by amazon, undercutting any other seller on near-exact things. imagine if valve made knockoffs of every famous game and just redirected every search to them.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•7 months agoYeah, isn’t literally everything they have on steam and advertisement?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•7 months agoOnly if companies are paying more for what you’re seeing. The classic example would be loosely related games showing at the top of search results because some paid for them to be sponsored posts. Or something like that
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Amazon is also a store, but they have sponsored listings that get preferential placement. Not technically ads, but very similar idea…
here’s the kicker: amazon sells their own product at the public market owned by amazon, undercutting any other seller on near-exact things.
imagine if valve made knockoffs of every famous game and just redirected every search to them.
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Yeah, isn’t literally everything they have on steam and advertisement?
Only if companies are paying more for what you’re seeing.
The classic example would be loosely related games showing at the top of search results because some paid for them to be sponsored posts. Or something like that