Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed

#For sale: Ads that look like legit Reddit user posts

“We highly recommend only mentioning the brand name of your product since mentioning links in posts makes the post more likely to be reported as spam and hidden. We find that humans don’t usually type out full URLs in natural conversation and plus, most Internet users are happy to do a quick Google Search, ReplyGuy’s website reads.

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    Is it difficult to prove that’s what’s explicitly being sold in this case?

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      It’s hard since it could theoretically also be an actual user who used that website themself.