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Pre-IPO Reddit lets ads be dressed up as promoted user posts (www.theregister.com)
submitted 8 months ago by jeze@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Well, look at that. Ads disguised as posts.

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[โ€“] huginn@feddit.it 34 points 8 months ago (1 children)

100% chance

Reddit would not let actual sentiment be shown, which is part of why the comments are locked (archived). If you're an advertiser they'll bend over backwards to please you. Guaranteed.

5 years ago people were down voting ads to oblivion. Now? They've got controls for that.

[โ€“] Krauerking@lemy.lol 4 points 8 months ago

Oh man I miss when down voting an ad actually worked. That was such a funny movement for a second before they fixed that.
But yeah all those up ones are definitely fake and just a way to make it feel more real. The Jesus ads still don't show any up otes since they aren't paying for that feature I guess.