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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Paid Links Using Fake (AI?) Images
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 02:17:04 -0000 (UTC)
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Just noticed a couple of cases of paid links using quite striking pictures 
as clickbait, only to not have any items in the full article resembling 
those pictures at all.

One of them was quite a bizarre-looking motorhome-type thingy, with a 
truly remarkable plethora of excrescences, including a staircase and an 
upper gallery. Of course the real motorhome in the actual article looked 
far more conventional.

And no, I don’t think they earned any revenue from my clicks. All I saw in 
the articles, between the content, was gaps with the word “Advertisement” 
in them. ;)