Just asking for a friend…

  • Archpawn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You’re not selling your account so they can datamine reddit. You’re selling it so that they can put ads on Reddit that look like a user commenting. Which is also a thing Reddit does.

    • livus@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Not necessarily. Some if them use them to post malicious links to sites that will steal your credit card data or try to attack you.

      • insomniac
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        1 year ago

        There’s probably more money in just doing that directly