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I'm confused. Reddit has had ads that look like normal posts for ages. What's actually different about these new ones?
by mikepavone 3y ago
I'm confused. Reddit has had ads that look like normal posts for ages. What's actually different about these new ones?
- saberience 3y agoThey used to be really obvious, now they are less obvious.
- hn_throwaway_99 3y agoLike every other search engine, social media platform, etc. ever. Remember when ads on Google were highlighted with a big yellow block? Now they look exactly like regular search results, just with "sponsored" in small text at the top. And my guess is they went with "sponsored" instead of "ad" or some such because for some subset of the population it's probably not even clear that sponsored=paid advertisement.
- unshavedyak 3y agoThe infinite growth problem / enshittification of modern capitalism. We will endlessly try to squeeze more blood out of a rock until it crumbles entirely. It's funny in a way. We talk about how risk averse big companies are compared to smaller, more nimble startups. Yet those same big companies don't seem to be risk averse to making aggressive squeezing changes like these.
- pennomi 3y agoIs there significant risk in slowly clawing away user experience? If it happens incrementally enough, users are unlikely to leave.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Remember when ads on Google were highlighted with a big yellow block? https://kagi.com/signup https://kagi.com/signup
- phatskat 3y agoAccording to TFA it appears that the old ads used to only link externally, or to a post made by a real user. Now the ads are posts themselves that self-link to Reddit.