The Rising Needle of Scam Advertising on Quora: Navigating the Digital Landscape
As a long-time user of Quora, I have noticed an increasingly disturbing trend: scam advertising. These ads have been flooding my Quora feed and email digest for weeks, and they are clearly fraudulent. The advertising pages they link to are forgeries, which is both upsetting and damaging. While Quora may profit from this traffic, it's a disgrace that it allows such activity on its platform.
Advertising and Scam Prevention
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Efforts to ignore advertising on any website can be a great strategy. In the absence of clicks, the risk of being scammed is minimized. As I often tell myself, if you don't click, you can't get scammed at least not in the traditional way.
Personal Experience and Observations
While I haven't personally noticed scam advertising on Quora, it’s possible that my engagement with the platform may not be attracting such content. Alternately, it's possible that these ads are present but I simply don't see them. This thought is somewhat comforting, despite being naive.
Notably, Quora now often displays ads that are nearly indistinguishable from genuine posts or questions immediately after relevant ones. Given these ads’ placement, discerning them from real content can be challenging but certainly manageable with some basic online literacy.
A World of Choice or Constraint
Where we live today is a world that is increasingly monetized. We must ask ourselves whether we want to live in a world where knowledge is controlled by a single entity ("the boss knows everything"), or a world where we have the freedom to discover things ourselves with minimal repercussions.
Scam Questions and Misleading Links
Scam questions are not limited to just advertisements. Many users have been flagged for posting scam questions. Similarly, links to "news" articles are often biased, usually falling to the left political spectrum. These biased articles don't align with a neutral or balanced perspective, and they can lead to further misinformation.
My strategy is straightforward: I focus on the questions and answers on Quora and avoid sidetracking into scam ads or biased content. Most of these links are pointless and serve no purpose other than to drive clicks and profits for Quora.
Despite the rise of scam advertising on Quora, it is reassuring to know that one can navigate this space with some diligence and discernment. As internet users, it is our collective responsibility to stay informed and aware of the potential risks.