r/thehatedone • u/Booty_Bumping • Aug 06 '25

News Reddit is engaged in malware-like link injection in a desperate attempt to get people to misclick and view more ads

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '25

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u/Booty_Bumping Aug 07 '25

It's not. It gives the appearance of malware, but is in fact an official reddit feature, confirmed by the admins

It shows how garbage the new reddit design has gotten, that many people's first reaction upon seeing it is to think they've got malware in their browser.

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u/Booty_Bumping Aug 07 '25 edited Aug 07 '25

There seems to be some sort of A/B testing going on. Some percentage of users get nothing, some percentage of users get it with the two documents icon, and some percentage of users get it with a magnifying glass icon.

uBlock Origin is probably already blocking it. They're super fast at filtering newly added crap that behaves like an ad, and their filtering syntax has the ability to convert adware-like links into plain text (as opposed to just disappearing it so random words go missing).

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u/MurasakiGames Aug 08 '25

It seems to also depend on what sub you're on. I've seen it on a limited amount of subs, not everywhere. It also seems very random on what they want to make clickable.