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• Cruxifux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Bragging? I’m not familiar with this. What does that mean in terms of advertising?

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s a form of guerrilla advertising where they play on FOMO and try to make people jealous of someone who is “loving” the product. It’s one of the harder forms of shilling to detect because it can sound just like a regular person who actually does enjoy a specific product.

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    • TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Exactly this. It’s made me a pessimist online, and offline.

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  • TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ll admiit, bragging wasn’t the right word, but I meant all the PR teams the enshittify social media like fleas, by pretending to be a run of the mill user, attempting to build hype.

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    • Cruxifux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh I get what you mean.

      Yeah I tried to google what a good free VPN was and all the Reddit posts were OBVIOUS plants by VPNs that wanted you to pay for them.

      I found a free one eventually but Reddit was no help.

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      • TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Exactly, with SEO it’s like wading through a septic tank these days.

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