How Reddit is polluting the web

Once you see the tricks, you can't unsee them.

I remember stumbling across Reddit twenty years ago. It was a good place to find tech news after Digg got a little too mainstream and full of viral content.

These days, Reddit is a huge property that functions more like a mass-market social media network. And, for all the interesting things you can sometimes find there, Reddit is full of stealthy manipul…