Political astroturfing is absolutely nothing compared to the corporate astroturfing going on on there.

I would go as far as to say that there is relatively no political astroturfing going on in comparison to corporate astroturfing

the rise of searching “[product] reddit” in google to find reliable reviews, has hugely incentivised companies to hijack threads and control the narrative, because there’s a direct profit motive

It’s at its absolute worst for VPN companies, which I am hugely suspicious of anyway. Go to r/vpn or a related subreddit and ask for a good VPN to use, and see what replies you get