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Yahoo News Posts Advertisements as News

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sinking-to-a-new-low dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Yahoo is now putting ad banners as news stories. This is highly misleading and is an awesome way to sell out." I don't really think Yahoo has been sold in in a few years, but this is a new level of yucky. No doubt it is a sign of things to come: the news is the ad. The ad is the news. It's one step worse then the bizarre advertising/news merge that was amazingly evident when Disney/ABC was doing with Monsters Inc while Time/Warner/AOL/CNN was hyping Harry Potter. Oh, in case they change it, basically they have a list of news stories, and one of them links simply to a page advertising (not surprisingly) X-10. The link isn't marked as an ad -- its simply one of the headlines in the news list. It's one thing to have more ads... it's another to simply disguise the ad as actual news. Update The ad was yanked. For those who missed it, there were a dozen news articles, but one was an advertisement. It was indistinguishable from the actual news.

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  1. Hmm... by daeley · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    And this is different how?

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  2. Re:Nothing really new, just a continuation of a tr by mosch · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    and in other news, here is a news site that posts bullshit, and claims it's news!

    The conspiracy must be uncovered!

  3. Re:X10 ads and why I loathe them by maxpublic · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "save the children! save the children!"

    Let's try saving them from the zealots who'd shield them from every tiny little bit of real life that might upset not them, oh no, it's pretty hard to phase a kid - but their thin-skinned anti-First Amendment parents. And other evil-doers that fall into that rank category of Constitution-haters, wife-beaters, spank-monkeys, and general all-around losers.

    Whatever happened to "you keep your nose the fuck out of my business and I'll keep my nose the fuck out of yours?". Or even "you keep your nose the fuck out of my business or I'll blow your annoying little ass to kingdome-come"?

    Ooooh, wait, I forgot, the nosy neighbors are trying to repeal the 2nd Amendment along with the 1st...no doubt to reduce the risks associating with butting into things that they have to right to butt in to.

    For the sake of the children, of course!

    Max

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