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Re:Advertisers Could Soon Demand 'Verified Clicks' by pjc50 on Friday August 28, 2026 @10:12AM (#49478791)
It was generally believed that "pivot to video" was entirely fraudulent.

What's happening now is the retreat from the open internet; users are either taking the Google AI search summary as gospel and not clicking through, or just going to chatgpt by themselves. Traffic from actual humans to non-FAANG pages is falling.

Re:Advertisers Could Soon Demand 'Verified Clicks' by malfist on Friday August 28, 2026 @11:11AM (#49479741)
Theres a good cause for that. These marketers have spammed the entire internet with ai slop or blogspam to make search results useless.