Comment on Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months agoPretty sure this is not legal in many countries. Adverts must be at the very least labeled as such, like Google does with a tiny almost unnoticeable label.
Damage@feddit.it 2 months ago
In my country TV ads are explicitly marked with text in one corner
Gestrid@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
In the US, most TV commercials are so obviously TV commercials that they don’t label them. Some TV stations do have bumpers they air when the TV show goes to break and comes back from break.
anonymouse@lemmings.world 2 months ago
I stopped watching local news when they started having the anchors pitch to ads like they were just another news item.
topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In my country, paper press as to identify when something looks like an article, but it’s an ad.