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This reads like a paid advertisement. Plus it has a disclaimer: "AppleInsider may earn an affiliate commission on purchases made through links on our site."

• alwillis 4y ago
  Every story on this website, like thousands of others, makes money from affiliate links. That doesn’t change the authenticity of the article; this is just the latest in a series of stories about Apple’s health and safety tech coming to aid or saving someone’s life.
• marssaxman 4y ago
  It does read like a paid advertisement, but it's just rewording a Reddit post, from someone whose extensive and varied commenting history gives the impression of genuine personhood (I snooped).
  • kobalsky 4y ago
    sadly that doesn't mean it's not at ad at all. buy active reddit account[1], post fake story on reddit, pay upvote farm, create news article filled with affiliate links, post everywhere do you think advertisers were going to stay with their arms crossed when everyone installed ublock? 1: https://www.playerup.com/accounts/redditaccount/ https://www.playerup.com/accounts/redditaccount/
    • actuallyalys 4y ago
      I'm sure some advertisers do that, although it seems unnecessary in this particular case—"my phone let me know my family member crashed" seems like the kind of story people would post about of their own volition. Unfortunately, you won't even have to wait that long, as there are over 17,000 crashes per day in the United States [0]. [0]: https://amaresq.com/blog/auto-accidents/how-many-car-accidents-per-day/ https://amaresq.com/blog/auto-accidents/how-many-car-acciden...