• Taleya@aussie.zone
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    8 months ago

    Ok this part made me snarf:

    When comments are enabled on free-form ads, there’s an increase in community engagement, Reddit claimed, without indicating whether that increase was positive or not.

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      I remember a long time ago, like maybe a decade or more, the regular we-can-see-they’re-ads ads on Reddit could have comments enabled if the ad buyer wanted. I remember jumping in on a few of them and they actually weren’t bad, at least in the ones I went into (a biased sample to be sure). If the ads weren’t obnoxious or misleading I could see it going not too badly.

      At some point adblock got good enough that I stopped seeing ads on Reddit any more, though, so I don’t know when they stopped that practice.

      • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Advertisers stopped enabling it around the time it became mostly “MeUndies”, “HeGetsUs” and “kraft” ads.

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        A long time ago the only ads on reddit were for communities inside itself.

        I remember reddit was the only exception in my block rules.

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          Yeah I never understood that. Was it just to drive engagement? Were the moderators paying for those?