Next stop: advertisers pushing product placement into generative images, and generative images with product placement littering image searches. It’s a pandora’s box we can’t close
Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
And now ensues an arms race, in which advertisers attempt to plant adverts into comment sections naturally, while reddit attempts to stop them doing it for free.
No company with shareholders can ever avoid enshittification.
bcron@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Aolley@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You mean ‘native advertising’? that is something r/hailcorporate was pointing out for years, I wonder if it’s been banned yet
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Even without becoming public. This was unavoidable and had to happen at some point due to how valuable reddits knowledge was/is.
mPony@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Coca Cola would never do anything like this.
Tja@programming.dev 2 months ago
Neither would McDonald’s®. Makers of the legendary BigMac™.
laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I wouldn’t bet on that