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I thought advertisements were supposed to be enticing... (loot.buckodr.ink)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It is an ad, and also a really shitty practice to display it exactly like it was the first result of your research.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I dunno, it says right there "ads related to your search"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It was designed to blend in with the search results. It's the same shitty design as the sponsored results appearing like they were the first few results of your Google or Bing search, or ads appearing as unread emails in Gmail or Hotmail.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I get it, I am just saying that companies have been doing that for a long time now, and we gotta just be computer literate enough to discern the difference. It's shitty, I agree

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago

All of those things literally say "ad" next to them. Do people not see that?