Removing the ability to opt-out of ad personalization based on your Reddit activity, except in select countries.
Reddit requires very little personal information, and we like it that way. Our advertisers instead rely on on-platform activity—what communities you join, leave, upvotes, downvotes, and other signals—to get an idea of what you might be interested in.
The vast majority of redditors will see no change to their ads on Reddit. For users who previously opted out of personalization based on Reddit activity, this change will not result in seeing more ads or sharing on-platform activity with advertisers. It does enable our models to better predict which ad may be most relevant to you.
edit: updated link to old.reddit.com
except in select countries.
something’s telling me it’s the countries that make being able to opt out of profiling a legal requirement. praise be GDPR.
That sounds like it’s explicitly against the law in California, where they are headquartered.
Hm.
It’s an enshittification speed run
is it, though? I’d say the redesign was when things started going seriously downhill, and that’s been introduced about 5 years ago. not much of a speedrun.
What redesign?
- 3rd party app & old.reddit.com user since forever
RES gang rise up
Had Reddit Enhancement Suite on desktop and exclusively third-party apps on mobile since 2011. Saw the redesign for the first time earlier this year and was mortified.
Enshittification stage 5: beyond plaid
Meanwhile, I just installed Boost for lemmy, immediately paid to remove ads, and am having a great time.
Voyager has no ads 🥰
That’s cool too. I used Boost for Reddit, so I’m happy to support them in this burgeoning era of fediwhatever. 😉
Indeed, I used the free version of RiF for years and only found out there was a paid version available when they announced they were sitting down. I bought it in their last month of operation because they deserved it.
Neither does Jerboa. 👍
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Yeah the free version has ads.
Same here! I go where boost goes! Hopefully many more keep following
How much is it to remove ads on boost actually?
$4.95 CAD
$3.50 USD
Yeah, using Lemmy feels so many ch better. I was using jeroba and it has some issues that were not being addressed. The lack of ads was nice, but paying $5 for no ad Boost feels like a great deal.
Anyone still using reddit is a lost cause
Somehow coming to the Reddit sub Lemmy feels like the “Reddit recovery group” 😁
… Hi, I’m ConstipatedWatson and I’ve not used Reddit for the past 4 days!
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The majority aren’t dissatisfied enough to do anything about it, despite complaints. However, I’m hoping that some future action from Huffman will affect them adversely enough that it’d push them over that threshold and decide to do something about it—quit that site. I doubt a lot of them will make their way over here, so just them quitting is good enough for me.
Who in the actual fuck keeps all this garbage alive? Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, all gone to shit, why do people insist on staying with them?
Are you familiar with
?The central limit theorem?
Because all their friends are there, and redditors do not belong outside reddit.
I have an old account that I wiped 9 times, but used to post the spez getting railed by busty Garfield meme, that of course were deleted by an admin. It’s lately getting harassment PM’s/comments regarding older posts that were reactivated despite multiple deletions. It’s like they’re trying to bait me back into an argument lol, it’s weird and really sad for the communities.
Because my day isn’t shitty enough, I went over there to see what’s the vibe. Sure enough, people are complaining. There’s also a surprising amount of bootlickers who parrot the “argument” that people have been saying things have been going downhill, but Reddit still is popular so it can’t be going downhill. As if shitty things can’t be popular.
I’ve seen a couple of people who saw this as the last straw, which is better than nothing, but I feel that those remaining in that site, no matter how they kvetch about it, deserves to be frog stew (as in that boiling frog metaphor). I’d love to be proven wrong though.
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I’m aware. Not every metaphor has to adhere to scientific fact, though it’d be neat. Thanks for the elucidation though.
Seems like a lot of those people need to read Foundation.
I am unfortunately unfamiliar with that title. What is it about and what does it say about this situation (enshittification of Reddit, etc)?
At a guess, it’s a correlation between the Empire having it’s head in the sand about it’s gradual collapse, and the enshittification of Reddit over the trust thermocline.
Edit: sorry, I thought you said you were familiar with the source. In Foundation there’s a Galactic Empire which culturally and technologically stagnates to the point that the outer provinces break away, leading to the slow but inevitable collapse of the Empire. A breakaway faction (the Foundation) seeks to preserve the knowledge and technology of the Empire to reduce the duration of “barbarism” until a new Empire can form.
Ah, thanks for the explanation.
This is not going over well in Reddit’s comments section.
I hope Lemmy can capitalize on this and convince more users to switch.
I really hope so, or at least make some users decide enough is enough.
May I suggest editing this link to old.reddit.com?
eat my fucking ass spez
And yet another reason why I am glad I left over the summer.
Cool, I use Firefox with ublock and a script that stops reddit pop ups asking me to download and the app so I’ll see no changes at all.
Leave and be free! Lemmy on the rise
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