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Just this morning I opened up my RSS reader and found that it was flooded by weird, twisty prose exalting the virtues of online gambling. Since I follow a few b
by avian 6mo ago
Just this morning I opened up my RSS reader and found that it was flooded by weird, twisty prose exalting the virtues of online gambling. Since I follow a few blogs that post long form content I first thought this was satire or something, but after reading for a bit and seeing that the posts just never end my best guess was it's just AI slop indented to drive traffic to some gambling site - not clear which since there were not links. All posts came from a RSS feed of an apparently abandoned tech blog I was following that had the last legit post in 2020. My guess is the domain expired, a squatter bought it, saw a bunch of requests for the RSS feed and grabbed the opportunity. Although to what end I'm not sure.
- camdenreslink 6mo agoFor every sign up to that gambling site from their affiliate link they make a few bucks (sometimes many few bucks).
- fragmede 6mo ago> not clear which since there were not links. How does that work tho?
- camdenreslink 6mo agoOh interesting, then it was likely the owner of the gambling site itself doing this shady stuff.