• The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      If there are already articles proclaiming that user traffic is back to normal, I’d be surprised if this wasn’t already the case at Reddit. Lots of subs I’ve been at have had wonky traffic and subscriptions behavior that looked like bots.

      Reddit sells ads. They do this by convincing advertisers that access to their traffic is worth money. They’d be crazy not to cheat their metics, if it’s possible to do so.

  • Rairii@haqueers.com
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    1 year ago

    @silverbax what are the odds on that being the same or similar for every other centralised social network? they only care about that magic MAU value and will tamper with it as much as possible to sell ads.

    “ad fraud” is just something EVERYONE seems to be doing, and the big players just do it bigger.

  • ArugulaZ@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Anyone remember what happened to that social network started by the two teenage girls? It was popular for a minute, then straight up vanished.