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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to All   
   Paid Links Using Fake (AI?) Images   
   19 Feb 25 02:17:04   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   Just noticed a couple of cases of paid links using quite striking pictures   
   as clickbait, only to not have any items in the full article resembling   
   those pictures at all.   
      
   One of them was quite a bizarre-looking motorhome-type thingy, with a   
   truly remarkable plethora of excrescences, including a staircase and an   
   upper gallery. Of course the real motorhome in the actual article looked   
   far more conventional.   
      
   And no, I don’t think they earned any revenue from my clicks. All I saw in   
   the articles, between the content, was gaps with the word “Advertisement”   
   in them. ;)   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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