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I like how they try to sell the idea that tricking users is in fact a nice and innovative way to advertise
And that the "increased community engagement" isn't mainly comments of people complaining about being tricked into clicking on an ad.
Whatever it takes before their IPO. It's disgusting
Have they still not done their IPO yet??
Shit or get off the pot.
They're in the middle of trying to get their users to create accounts with E-Trade, their Directed Share Program (DSP) administrator. They'll start selling shares to their users as part of their DSP late next week. After that is the IPO.
The moderation effort required to clean up these ads must be massive.
I am sure that in the first iteration they did not remove the "Report" function, but those suckers learn fast
"we could just lie to people" is an advertising tactic somebody always comes up with. It's a Rubicon that absolutely shreds customer goodwill, though.
Assuming, of course, it isn't already shredded.