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Taboola is scum.

• Fjolsvith 7y ago
  Why do you say that?
  • nier 7y ago
    Never heard of them so I searched the web. Wikipedia says they also provide the Around the Web and Recommended For You boxes at the bottom of web pages. Haven’t read further, but I assume the reaction was prompted by them serving that lowest quality click bait made to look like page excerpts from the site you’re actually visiting.
    • hnick 7y ago
      It is often more than clickbait, it's entirely misleading to the point where if you click (for science) it's nothing like what is shown. At least that was true when I checked it out years ago when Slashdot started running them. Which is also around the time I stopped visiting that site.
• cruano 7y ago
  Anything related to advertising is