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Re:The Google Squeeze by Red_Leaves_Flyy on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @02:19PM (#21517145)
"Does any country have a law telling these influencers need to inform their followers about their sponsorship? Such laws exist for affiliate marketing."

The U.S. does.[1]

1. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2017/04/ftc-s...

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Re:The Google Squeeze by dylz on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @02:58PM (#21517517)
it doesn't seem to get properly enforced.
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Re:The Google Squeeze by maigret on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @03:43PM (#21517973)
Actually there have been a couple of lawsuits in Germany that changed the practice locally: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=12d4d756-d753...

Now most are very careful and even "overdisclose" advertising as a result (they disclose even for products they mention that they are not paid for it).

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Re:The Google Squeeze by dylz on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @05:52PM (#21519119)
Even on HN I've pleasantly told people to please disclose affiliate links (that I've only found out about because I click them and uBlock blocks the page from loading completely due to malicious amounts of tracking scripts) and people get upset about it.

I wish they would overdisclose here. It does not help that on social media, lots of people think adding "#sp" is enough.

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Re:The Google Squeeze by Red_Leaves_Flyy on Thursday November 14, 2019 @04:48PM (#21539843)
If they're American, merely adding #sp is an open and shut violation. That should be reminded of the consequences of failing to disclose
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