• TheGoldenGod@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    My concerns the product advertisers attempting to sneak in, bragging or something. It felt rampant on Reddit, so it’s probably left me wary. 😣

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      1 year ago

      And if that happens, you can bet your ass there will one day be instance-wide ad-block that auto-blocks users/instances known for posting ads.

      If that becomes a thing, there will be instances that explicitly filter it out.

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        The problem is its hard to tell what’s an ad and what’s not. Sometimes people ARE just enthusiastic about a product they found and want to share it.

        It’s easier when it’s a large company like Burger King or something; like most people won’t just suddenly start raving about this great new burger place they found called Burger King. It’s different for more obscure companies. It could be actual Lemmy users who are just passionate or it could be company employees trying to sneak advertisements into site discussions.

        I don’t think there’s any AI or other tools that could distinguish the two.

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      Double edge sword. “This guy is shilling” reports go rampant .

      Hopefully, the Reddit bot trackers peeps will move to lemmy, and lend us their wisdom.
      I learnt so many ways realise a poster or commenter was a bit from those peeps. Amazing MVPs!
      And folks like kitboga taught me that spammers/scammers generally stick to a script.

      It’s gonna be an arms race! Hopefully we win!

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      Yo I also worry about advertisers attempting to target me with localised advertisements, which is why I use Borg VPN! Nice try, advertisers, but those “hot milfs” are nowhere near me, ha!

      /parody