Someone posted this over on Reddit right when it happened and I apparently saved it. I’m cleaning out my bookmarks and came across it. I hought you’d like to see why it’s good news that we found Lemmy.
Edit: I took a screenshot in case it gets deleted.
So fucking brazenly perverse.
The window of success for trusting reddit for product recommendations was just destroyed. What fucking idiots. They can’t seek out clients instead of posting to the world that they try to manipulate their users?
They are trying to point to subs dedicated to making smart purchases as an opportunity to advertise for whoever pays? Good fucking luck. They are going to crash their whole model into the ground and they don’t care. This is an IPO play to get rich and RUIN the site.
Can you TLDR it cause i don’t want to change my DNS rules to allow reddit for this.
TLDR; remember how you liked putting site:reddit.com at the end of searches for specific product recommendations because it seemed like the last place left on the internet where you can get recommendations which weren’t blatant ads? Well fuck you, we gonna use the question context to put ads.
Example: Looking for headphone recs and go to a reddit post? You’re gonna see a headphone ad.
Oh, I assume the majority of us here use ad blockers. This seems like something that won’t effect us
And, if a non adblock user sees these ads, that’s on them. Ad blockers have never been easier to get running
Except they’ll make them normal reddit posts through bots.
Nah, i never did that, when i want to know a product i buy it and if its shit i send it back.
But sound idiotic.
You should check with a doctor to see if they can help with your “I’m just an asshole unprovoked for no reason” problem.
TL;DR enshittification. Lots of targeted ads and corporate newspeak.
Thx.
Fuck reddit.
So I am not the only one? :)
Context needed please. Reddit is blocking themselves?
Nope. I’ve seen myself visiting Reddit through Google search a bit too much, so I blocked it in DNS settings just like the other guy.
So the one remaining way to search the internet that would give me the results I needed is disappearing? Time to head back to the library I guess
I bought a technical book for the first time in 10 years because searching sucked soooo bad. Articles start with monotonous life stores, videos that waste time (but don’t forget to click like and subscribe!), or just straight up product ads and SEO spam.
Analogue to the rescue.
The priority of advertisers experience, over user experience, should say it all
I threw up a little reading this. Gross.
Looks like they don’t just put off their users, the also screw over their customers. Good job!
That’s step 2 on the path to enshittification.
I’m so glad I purged all my crap off that network. If you wrote about a brand, your content will be used to show that brand as an advertisement. Now your content will appear like an endorsement.
The only good news is I’m racking my brain and I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned a product of any sort by name that I wasn’t bashing it. Sorta the economic version of survivor bias? If it’s good, I have no reason to bring it up.
I hope those slip through so someone can see an ad that says:
Zoloft
“It never did shit for me”
— N.It’s going to be something like this:
u/RandomRedditUser29473:
Comcast is a piece of shit, I was put on hold for 3 hours to reach support.
(Promoted) Comcast plans for you starting from $2999.99/mo! Like you have any other choice HAHAHAHAHA
I mean that was possible before but on a whole new level. It’s actually in Reddits interest to get rid of more sceptical mods who stick tightly to rules, because they’d delete an obvious ads thread.
I’m pretty sure this ties in with the stuff they were promoting at the Cannes Lions conference back when everything kicked off.
That deserves its own thread, they’re betrayal of their users as mere content in an eye catching booth.
I wonder if the “400,000 comments per day” and “2 questions per second” figures are still true (if they ever were).
Those numbers are likely only mildly inflated. Advertisers would raise hell if they were off significantly. Now, how many are Reddit personnel or bots? That’s the real question.
Unfortunately, there are many people still on Reddit. I predict that this is going to be like the Twitter migration, where more and more people join alternatives with every bad decision the company makes
I love it! Having my decision to leave reddit justified again, and so quickly, gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside.
Not regretting deleting my 10+ year old account one bit.
