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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] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you point me to some starting points or good reads by Richard Stallman? He got a solution to the cycle, then I'm down.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Free software, Free society is his collection of essays.