TL;DR: Reddit is removing the option to opt out of ad personalization, targeting ads based on user activity. Some specific ad categories can still be limited, but there’s no more opt-out option.
Here’s the best summary I could make of the linked article
Reddit is removing the option for users to opt out of personalized ads. The site will now target ads based on a user’s activity and account information. Reddit claims this requires little personal data and will improve ad relevance. However, users will no longer have control over whether their data is used this way. They can only filter ads by category, not opt out entirely. Personalized ads will still be optional in some countries due to GDPR laws.
Overall, Reddit users can expect to see more targeted ads based on their engagement with different communities and content.
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Glad I left. It can only get worse…
I’m increasingly glad I got the fuck out of there.
Same.
I use Jshelter alongside Ublock. They’re a good combination.
funny as im seeing this while nuking my old reddit account. havent used it since they took apollo from me and honestly i won’t miss it. they are just digging their own grave at this point.
Best of luck with that.
They will not be forcing me to accept personalized ads. How are they going to personalize them when I have no reddit account, block their cookies, use a VPN and change my IP address often, and don’t use their website.
Isn’t it sad that we have to do all this to prevent our information being spread around the corporate world like a virus
They should teach defensive web-browsing in schools.
I want to live in that reality
Well if you don’t use their website you aren’t a user.
I don’t like Reddit.
'Tis a silly place.
On second thought, let’s not go there.
I would care if I used Reddit, but I don’t.
Who views ads in Reddit? Except for all the shill posts, that is.
There’s enough astroturf on Reddit for a continent’s worth of obnoxious suburban fake lawns.
Shill posts, shill posts everywhere.
I’m pretty sure it’s everyone who uses their app, since every third post and every fourth comment on it is an ad of some sort (or at least that’s how it seemed). I’m sure anyone on old.r with an adblocker is unaffected but during the brief time I had their app installed there were enough ads to render it unusable and unnavigable.
They just went from we love you guys to we don’t even give a fuck bend over boy in like 6 months.
Twitter has also shifted into a dystopian QQ wannabe.
Meta has been a dumpster fire for a decade now.
Tik Tok. heavy sigh
This kinda seems like end of times.
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if this is your version of the end of times, I suggest you take a look out your window at the burning hellscape of western north america and other locations around the globe. I also hope you’re not too attached to birds or polar bears.
My world ends whenever someone doesn’t understand hyperbole
This makes me want to just set myself on fire!
Now I become death, destroyer of literary device
You became Death? How did you manage that?
By taking things literally, apparently
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How am I devaluing what they are saying by pointing out there are much, much, more serious signals of a looming apocalypse?
It’s like worrying about the mosquito biting you in a room full of blood thirsty canibals.
I realize I shifted off topic, but they were getting a bit dramatic with the end of times bit
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I’m not trying to start anything, I just don’t follow your logic, and your comments seem like an over reaction.
I’m happy to agree to disagree though, and won’t presue a conversation neither of us really wants to have.
Hopefully you find other people on here that are more suited to your perspectives (I’m legitimately sorry we’re clashing). Lemmy is a great platform and I want you to enjoy it as much as I do
birds or polar bears
Phew! Luckily I just like penguins…
I have bad news. Penguins are a hybrid of bird and polar bear.
Even the name Penguin is a hybrid of polar and penguin.
If it’s the end of the era of social media, I’m plenty ok with that. Shit’s been cancer for almost a decade now.
And may it usher in the era of antisocial media. The era where we all stop trying to impress each other, monetize each other, and just buy a thing and have it do the thing we bought it for, and not be bothered. Long may it reign.
Lol that’s more like the end of American consumerism, and while I wholeheartedly agree, that’ll take a generation or two at least to decouple from American society. That shit’s been going strong here for over 100 years.
"I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Spezymandias, Admin of Kings;
Look on my Reddit, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”Hey great poem
Great username. Worth a follow.
Random question - is it possible to follow a user?
It is on Kbin. Lemmy doesn’t have that capacity yet as far as I know. It’s one of the main reasons I recommend the former - Kbin bridges the gap between Mastodon and Lemmy, and includes functionality from both types of instances. Following users increases your feed content here exponentially.
Thanks for pointing it out, too. I almost missed out on an awesome username.
Get Mozilla Firefox and add uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and Ghostery plugins.
For over the top action, but a Raspberry Pi with an ethernet port and install PiHole and change your router DNS to the IP address of the PiHole and bask in glory that 99.999% of the crap out there, will not come or go out of your household.
It boggles the mind that there are people who still don’t use adblocking measures these days.
Have you heard anything about uBlock origin, Ghostery and similar programs?
Some of us remember there was a time when things like Reddit didn’t exist, and neither did Facebook, Twitter etc. Lots of people lived just fine without them then. It’s completely possible to take a hard line on this stuff and just refuse to use sites/apps/products that don’t respect your privacy. Remember, there’s always a smaller, friendlier or mechanical version.
Reddit was unique - at least in my experience - in that it expanded my horizons and allowed me to grow in many ways.
Before Reddit I just searched out sites / forums about my interests.
Reddit allowed me to organically gain new interests through daily interactions.I’ve left it since they killed Apollo but I will admit that there were various good communities that I do miss!
