Maybe Taco Bell puts a lot of work in creating content that works well on the Reddit frontpage (which would definitely be manipulative, but hey, what are you gonna do), and maybe their own employees at home are upvoting it ("it's for the good of the company"), but I very much doubt the top people at Reddit are making a business out of this, if only because they couldn't justify it to their employees. Some people love to associate with or promote a brand they like. On Twitter, time and time again, some people will retweet / fav corporate stuff because it's funny or makes them feel good / outraged / etc. It could be happening, sure, but that sounds very risky, and doesn't pass Occam's razor as far as I'm concerned. Reddit is selling their front page one way or another becuase it is pretty much their cash cow, however milking it must be done very carefully because a user backlash would kill the site or future opportunities to monetise in this manner. Whether the Tacobell payment is official or hidden by way of increased ad costs on other CondeNest properties or even if it is offered as a sort of add-on to their usual advertising in print media. What do you think that sort of exposure is worth to Tacobell? If Tacobell did pay for some product placement of this nature do you think reddit would ever tell its users? Nope, that would pretty much kill any future attempt to do this sort of thing. there was a front page post recently of a TacoBell sign that was 20 years old, a crap post with little value, but it ends up with +2000 votes and is front paged on a friday(i think). There is a lot of corporate crap that makes the front page, I expect that reddit receives remuneration for this. You should have advanced tools easily available, otherwise people are unlikely to ever start learning anything by themselves.I am not 100% convinced that they will ever (officially) be profitable (or that they would need to be). Much later I also found out that ABP has a logger as well though it was so well hidden that I didn't find it when I was ABP user. One thing for me that originally kinda encouraged me to learn something was the fact that when I switched to uBO, I noticed that uBO has a network request logger that was easily available by clicking it's icon: I could open it and examine network requests and also create blocking filters and see how it affects the website I'm using. UBO's anti-adblock filters are a huge advantage over ABP that doesn't allow anti-adblock on it's default lists. Also I didn't like that when I created a rule, uBO doesn't show it's domain part in the element picker though this doesn't bug me that much anymore, though I think that it would useful thing to show the domain part if you want to copy the rule to a separate list, instead of just adding it to your custom filters list. The reason that kept me in ABP was because I had accustomed to it. Though as years have passed I have also realized that uBO's blocking capabilities are far better. I also liked that it didn't have "acceptable ads" stuff even though it can be easily disabled. Some years ago when I switched from ABP to uBO was mainly because uBO was more light on resource usage so my brother recommended to use it.
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