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<\/a>It is all Apple, all the time in techland this week. Except at Reddit, where the social news site’s users spent most of yesterday obsessing about something else: A rogue ad.<\/p>\nReddit is a Digg-like community-powered news aggregation\/curation service that Conde Nast bought a few years ago and has more or less left alone. The publisher has made a very cautious attempt to introduce some advertising into the free site,<\/a> but so far it’s just toe-in-the water stuff. Because Reddit users really, really hate advertising.<\/p>\n Here’s proof: The deluge of angry commentary that dominated the site Thursday after visitors started seeing a pop-up ad that wasn’t supposed to be there.<\/p>\n The short version of the story is that Reddit says<\/a> this was an honest mistake that wasn’t really their fault — they lay the blame on other Conde sites and Google’s (GOOG) DART ad-serving service. But the say they’re sorry anway, because “we would sooner bludgeon ourselves to death with keyboards than run pop-over ads.”<\/p>\n You can find a longer version of the tale via Reddit engineer Mike Schiraldi’s blog post<\/a>, which is pretty entertaining. And you can get a sampling of Reddit users’ reaction here<\/a>, but be warned that some of them use salty language to complain about seeing advertisements.<\/p>\n Oh, and the ad in question? Tangentially related to Apple (AAPL), after all — they were for iPad carrier AT&T (T). But they were promoting the carrier’s relationship with competitor Research in Motion (RIMM)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Buy This Item: [Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
![here<\/a>, but be warned that some of them use salty language to complain about seeing advertisements.<\/p>\nOh, and the ad in question? Tangentially related to Apple (AAPL), after all — they were for iPad carrier AT&T (T). But they were promoting the carrier’s relationship with competitor Research in Motion (RIMM)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nBuy This Item: [Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\nRead Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is all Apple, all the time in techland this week. Except at Reddit, where the social news site’s users spent most of yesterday obsessing about something else: A rogue ad. Reddit is a Digg-like community-powered news aggregation\/curation service that Conde Nast bought a few years ago and has more or less left alone. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/n1BUU.png\"){kind=link}