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elpenguino

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#3355616 20-Mar-2025 12:40

freitasm:

Those ads are such low quality - and pay so little. Only greed explains a newspaper using them.

To be fair to the struggling media industry, desperation could also be a motive.

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tripper1000

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#3355686 20-Mar-2025 16:01

The headline screams scam. 1) Since when were aerospace engineers IT experts? 2a) Who gives away $100+ per month services for free? 2b) Why would they need to advertise to give away something so valuable for free.

elpenguino

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#3355700 20-Mar-2025 17:21

We all know those links are all rubbish and not to be trusted, yet, I once clicked one.

And I 'couldn't believe' what some famous celebrities look like now.

Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21

richms

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#3355701 20-Mar-2025 17:24

tripper1000:

The headline screams scam. 1) Since when were aerospace engineers IT experts? 2a) Who gives away $100+ per month services for free? 2b) Why would they need to advertise to give away something so valuable for free.

Look don't question this just pay the delivery fee and agree to subscribe to some bull subscription service as part of the checkout process and you will be fine. While you are at it get the bundled offers from the other sites and subscribe to them too with a free trial that you didnt know you were signing up for. Its all just so simple.

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#3355702 20-Mar-2025 17:33

It is not the first time for Stuff and NZ Herald. After a complaint from a former editor of RNZ's Mediawatch - the Press Council said this kind of content was “deliberately designed to deceive” and breached professional standards and "news organisations should be expected to take responsibility for the content they publish, sponsored or otherwise"

So.. Stuff and NZ Herald changed the titles of Outbrain sections to "Paid promoted content". I doubt that is enough to avoid responsibility. The Outbrain advertising I'm used to seeing is photos of things covered in tinfoil with captions like 'Android users do this [to you name it]' and 'Block advertising with this one simple trick [picture of sharp thing poked into phone]' and the misleading generated pictures of interesting looking things that don't actually exist with the links that go to some landing sold by Outbrain. The whole thing is extremely profitable.

In February the Outbrain network was reported to be delivering pro-Israel opinion content on Stuff pages [Mediawatch 30:42]. This summary and expansion has a stronger view not originating with RNZ.

Goosey

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#3355811 21-Mar-2025 06:06

By crickey kids, I think I’ve solved the case…

I reckon Stuff are the OG scammers.

have you ever seen any editorial or written content from them exposing internet scammers and the like? (NO).

Would they be ever “involved as an accomplice” as part of a legit scammer, given they are knownly displaying and making revenue from scammer content?.

hmm… it’s kinda like when the local gang gets busted for somthing…

GV27

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#3355812 21-Mar-2025 06:28

gzt:

So.. Stuff and NZ Herald changed the titles of Outbrain sections to "Paid promoted content". I doubt that is enough to avoid responsibility. The Outbrain advertising I'm used to seeing is photos of things covered in tinfoil with captions like 'Android users do this [to you name it]' and 'Block advertising with this one simple trick [picture of sharp thing poked into phone]' and the misleading generated pictures of interesting looking things that don't actually exist with the links that go to some landing sold by Outbrain. The whole thing is extremely profitable.

I mean you can arguably block ads by hitting your phone with a hammer, it just comes with some additional side-effects.

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dasimpsonsrule

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#3355815 21-Mar-2025 07:46

Hmm... Looks suspiciously similar to the device in this video:

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