What’s really happening here is that advertisers can use the Reddit Ads Manager to create normal user posts and then pay to make them appear prominently on the site and in the app as promoted posts, aka adverts.
Look it’s not exactly revolutionary or new, google search has been littered with promoted ad results for years. But I still hate it. Fuck off, reddit. No respect intended. Icky. So glad I stopped using it.
I remember gaming and computer magazines from the 90s, sometimes the full page ads looked like a normal article or something that could have been part of the magazine content. So its really not new. This really upset me and if I remember such type of ads were banned in Germany (but can misremember). I hate ads that are not marked as such or can be sponsored to appear in front of everything else. It’s basically pay to win.
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Look it’s not exactly revolutionary or new, google search has been littered with promoted ad results for years. But I still hate it. Fuck off, reddit. No respect intended. Icky. So glad I stopped using it.
I remember gaming and computer magazines from the 90s, sometimes the full page ads looked like a normal article or something that could have been part of the magazine content. So its really not new. This really upset me and if I remember such type of ads were banned in Germany (but can misremember). I hate ads that are not marked as such or can be sponsored to appear in front of everything else. It’s basically pay to win.
Fuck Reddit.