Comment on It’s going good so far 🤞🤞
TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world 2 years agoI’m more worried about the advertisers sneaking in through “bragging”, like Reddit saw. 😣
Comment on It’s going good so far 🤞🤞
TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world 2 years agoI’m more worried about the advertisers sneaking in through “bragging”, like Reddit saw. 😣
Cruxifux@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Bragging? I’m not familiar with this. What does that mean in terms of advertising?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 years 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.
TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Exactly this. It’s made me a pessimist online, and offline.
TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world 2 years 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.
Cruxifux@lemmy.world 2 years 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.
TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Exactly, with SEO it’s like wading through a septic tank these days.