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AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' (www.404media.co)

submitted 7 months ago by Ilandar@aussie.zone to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[–] TypicalHog@lemm.ee 37 points 7 months ago (13 children)

SEO disgusts me. On that topic I also hate when people in YT videos are begging for likes, subs ands comments to boost engagement and optimize their video in the algorithm. I get it, they are kinda forced to, but that's such a sad state of affairs.

[–] Kissaki@beehaw.org 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I also hate when people in YT videos are begging

Install the web-browser extension SponsorBlock

Crowd-sourced auto-skip

[–] TypicalHog@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This! I literally found out about it like a couple days ago and I'm really liking it!

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

It's the reason revanced is >> the official YouTube app even with a paid YT subscription

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