Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform

CastorSulMush@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• CHKMRK@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There are ads in comments now?

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  • BitsAndBites@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yep, ads masquerading as comments. It’s awful. I’m so glad I moved to Lemmy.

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  • underfreyja@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, people like me and I assume you, who used to browse reddit via a third party app or with RES + an adblocker on pc did not see it but it’s a bit insanely how much ads there’s already on reddit right now. I migrated to GNU and firefox last week and forgot to add the extensions as I was just looking for some information in the Endeavour subreddit and I was shocked at the state of “default” reddit… I’m glad I left and I hope most of the userbase will…

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  • aushtan@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yea adds have been in comments for at least a year now

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    • Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They snuck them in during some AB testing like 5 years ago, they didn’t stick though obv

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