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PSA: Reddit is Forcing Users to Accept Personalized Ads (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.