• @bleph@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Not an advertiser but they generally know % of views (“impressions”) to clicks (called click through rate) and percentage of clicks that turn into sales (called conversion rate).

    For that reason, I don’t think they’re trying to get rid of human users completely, just the “troublemakers”.

    I think they want to lead the “silent majority” users into a bot advertorial content hellscape where they control all the levers of power and everything is for sale.

      • @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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        2 years ago

        Yup, I can echo what that commenter said. The bounce rate (when someone clicks on your ad) is atrocious, and there is extremely high competition for getting ads to US/Canada/Australia/other high income countries, which drives up the price further.

        I only advertise on Reddit because I have a really great discount, but even then it sucks and always has.