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.
I don’t understand how they can do this with iPhone when Apple requires all apps to prompt with the option to deny tracking?
Best of luck with that.
I mean, does it really matter? At the end of the day, an obnoxious ad is an obnoxious ad regardless of wether it’s targets or not. Or am I missing something?
Any company/developer that puts ads in their app deserves to fade into irrelevant obscurity. And the more people put up with it and pay into it to remove the ads, the more you’re rewarding the behavior.
And it’s ironic that I’m sure a large percentage of people that pay to remove ads are the same people that whine about people pre-ordering games.
Sorry for the rant. But this shit aggravates me.
Or am I missing something?
I think the only distinguishing factor is to target, it must gather data. So that means your activity is being tracked, stored, and shared with third parties. Of course for some people this will matter more than to others, but for those privacy focused you now know for certain they are storing data on you, potentially making money off of selling it, with no way to opt out.
Good point. I missed that.
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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I don’t think my adblocker cares what kind of ads they’re trying to show me. If anything their algorithms will just get confused for why this guy who used to be here hours every day now only comes to watch war videos once a day but no longer comments or upvotes anything.
How are people adblocking them on mobile?
Which mobile? On Android you can use AdAway. A network level adblocker on your router can also take care of many ads for every device connected to it.
firefox + no-script on mobile is da way my dude
Firefox lets you adblock.
a pihole can get you 90% of the way and it works in all apps and any other smart devices you have., but it doesn’t work well if the site isn’t using a 3rd party ad service (think YouTube, facebook)
My assumption was that at this point the majority of people are using the official reddit app, but I guess that’s an option for now.
On Android anyway. No AdBlock (at least ublock) still on Firefox for IOS I believe due to platform restrictions. But would be cool if I’m wrong.
RedReader still works. If you’re gonna look at reddit, I recommend it. You can even turn off all the interaction buttons, so it’s like a “look, don’t touch” museum.
I uninstalled it though. Reddit is in too terrible a state to bother with any longer, except sometimes as a search result, imo.
Edit: I’m speaking of android though. Idk if redreader has an ios version or not.
Blokada. Firefox with uBlock Origin.
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.
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.
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.
I would care if I used Reddit, but I don’t.
Have you heard anything about uBlock origin, Ghostery and similar programs?
Glad I left. It can only get worse…
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 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.
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.
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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.
My world ends whenever someone doesn’t understand hyperbole
Now I become death, destroyer of literary device
You became Death? How did you manage that?
By taking things literally, apparently
This makes me want to just set myself on fire!
Who views ads in Reddit? Except for all the shill posts, that is.
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.
There’s enough astroturf on Reddit for a continent’s worth of obnoxious suburban fake lawns.
I thought all you guys left Reddit already
I left r/popular and r/all but lemmy still not yet an adequate replacement for non-tech niche hobbies and interests.
Can you give me an example of subreddits that you still follow? I’m setting up a fediversed instance on alien.top, which would mean that you’d be able to follow/interact with people still on reddit from the fediverse.
r/India, r/India investments, r/Kerala, r/malayalammovies, r/insidemollywood, r/watches, r/Porsche.
FYI: You can subscribe now to [email protected] which is mirroring /r/watches and [email protected] is mirroring /r/porsche.
Do you know if the admins at https://kerala.party would be interested in having the mirrored India-related subs?
Nice, thank you. I’m still fixing some issues with the deployment, but hopefully it will be working soon. Do you mind if I send you a DM when it is ready?
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The former. I would love to start these online communities but I don’t have the time nor emergy to maintain them; I’m barely browsing reddit and lemmy as it is.
For now, I can only compromise and use reddit.
I’m increasingly glad I got the fuck out of there.
Same.
