• kythrea@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Avoids giving free ad space for specific products, and avoids the product being changed messing up the recommendtion

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      5 days ago

      They can charge for the placement, or prioritize sponsored listing like they do for search results. So theyd make money on the feature, instead of spending money.

      It should be fairly straight forward to check the state of a listing and ensure it hasn’t changed since it was evaluated for this purpose.