Ham is cured, which is considered processed.
Not OP, but it could be a taste thing:
In the US it’s frequently wet cured to save money. At the deli there are a lot of varieties of ham that mostly just taste sweet, with no noticeable ham flavor or saltiness. This is what usually ends up on Hawaiian pizza.
There was also a fad to spam links to communities, some of them made up. Entire chains of comments would just be nonsense. A crackdown on that would make sense.
Here it’s not really an issue. There I’d usually consider a link to a community without additional text to be spam.