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Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts (www.zdnet.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Calling them "free-form ads," Reddit said the new advertisements are its most native format ever, designed to look and feel like community content shared by real people.

The ads, meant to mimic the site's megathreads, will enable advertisers to utilize a variety of formats in one post, including images, videos, and text.

According to numbers from Reddit, free-form ads got 28% more clicks than all other types of ads on the site and saw a jump in community engagement.

The next time you see an interesting post in your Reddit feed, take a closer look - because it might just be a paid advertisement.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Recently went on Reddit and laughed hysterically at the amount of religious propaganda I saw in this format. Example:

1000009776

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago (2 children)

-religious propaganda -gambling bullshit (including crypto/crypto adjacent bullshit) -military brainwashing/propaganda -alcohol ads

Just the worst fucking garbage bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

r/Atheism held the line for decades, and y'all cyberbullied them for it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

/r/atheism often got cyberbullied for being a bunch of insufferable jerks.

I don’t believe in god but you would never find me any closer to hanging out in /r/atheism than any other actually religious subreddit.

I mean, I guess I don’t want to judge that much because of how a subreddit like that can be a place for people living in extremely oppressive/conservative christian communities to express their anger at being in such a suffocating environment, but it often seemed like the criticisms of religion from the sub were more of the “but akshually this part of believing in god is dumb” instead of more along the lines of “who cares if god exists, y’all are incredibly hateful”.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

IMHO, it was an elevator ride that killed r/atheism…

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

OOTL. Can you explain further?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Rebecca Watson had some guy proposition in her in an elevator at a conference, felt uncomfortable and talked about it during the conference. This blew up the internet atheist/skeptic community around 2011 or so, led to a big split. “Elevatorgate”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

That was a killing blow + “the professional quote maker.”

But it was a good place for some decent discussion back in the day. I learned enough biology from arguing with creationists there + youtube to test out of college biology….

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

-military brainwashing

Yvan eht nioj

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Ok if your ad uses TL;DR or any other internet speak, you deserve to go bankrupt. I'm so fucking sick of corporations trying to cash in on meme culture and trends and ruining it every single time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Recuperation has been around for a lot longer than the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The best thing about those ads is that they’re mostly “AI” generated. You know none of the people making those ads would actually wash the feet of a queer person.