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Re:Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appe... by xigoi on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @01:54AM (#46523371)
> How do you solve discoverability, especially of a new type of product or category? I invented this new gadget call "luminexel". People don't know what it is yet, because it's new. How do people find it in a catalog?

You make a post on Hacker News titled “Show HN: I made this cool thing called Luminexel, check it out!” Some people will think it’s really cool and tell their friends about it. Eventually it will end up on some “curated list of awesome things” website.

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Re:Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appe... by magicalhippo on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @07:21AM (#46525565)
> You make a post on Hacker News titled “Show HN: I made this cool thing called Luminexel, check it out!”

So, place an ad in other words.

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Re:Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appe... by xigoi on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @07:59AM (#46525922)
It’s not an ad if you’re not paying someone to forcibly show it to other people.
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Re:Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appe... by magicalhippo on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @09:45AM (#46526921)
So if I put up posters in my neighborhood for my PC fixing service, it's not considered ads, but if I pay someone else to put the same posters up, they're suddenly ads?
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Re:Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appe... by jonfw on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @10:07AM (#46527207)
what if I payed a content marketing expert to craft my blog post and title in such a way that drew attention? Would that be paying for
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Re:Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appe... by agoodusername63 on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @10:38AM (#46527609)
My man that’s an ad

Many posts on HN are ads. We’ve just collectively decided that some of them are OK

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