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by nickzarzycki 4728 days ago
Ads masquerading as news get more attention? What an enormous surprise!
2 comments

I always have to look twice, because sometimes they really look like friend's updates.

What I have started to do is to mark them as spam.

I'd expect regression to the mean to kick in after a few months and bring the effectiveness down to all the other types of advertising.