Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed
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Reddit says its "communities are naturally commercial."

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.

  • Bonehead@kbin.social
    36·
    7 months ago

    Which is funny because the marketing speak screams at me through that entire post. I recognized it as spam not only from the link, but from the “In terms of finding a job…” as well. I know those kind of responses. I’ve written those kind of responses. Those responses now repel me.