cupcakezealot comments on Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 71 points 3 years ago (8 children)

They're gonna remove old reddit aren't they?

[–] stonedonkey@lemmy.world 59 points 3 years ago (3 children)

I'm actually surprised it's still running, but it seems inevitable especially when they aren't milking that sweet sweet af revenue.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 17 points 3 years ago

With old reddit you can block ads on the side and ads that pretend to be posts have a blueish hue, so it's easy to scroll past without paying attention.

"New" reddit the images/videos are already open so I'm sure eventually they'll look at the decrease in ad impressions and make up an excuse to get rid of it.

Assuming none of that has changed in the couple months since I left.

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[–] rish@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

All moderation tools were not available on new design last time I was there. It is still not on par with old design

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[–] bdonvr 4 points 3 years ago

That's not gonna stop them

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[–] Ktheone@lemmy.world 20 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

They cannot for now, old.reddit still drives a LOT of traffic for them and most of the reddit oldheads from what ive seen just use old reddit to surf the site, so if they're not stupid enough to drive a huge part of their userbase away from their shithole to sites like lemmy and turn into digg 2.0, I don't see old reddit dying for awhile but remember this is spez we're talking about in the end, the self proclaimed Elon fanboi, so I cannot expect any intelligent decision from him.

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[–] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 16 points 3 years ago

so if they’re not stupid enough to drive a huge part of their userbase away from their shithole to sites like lemmy and turn into digg 2.0

HAHAHAHAHHA oh man that's funny

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[–] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 10 points 3 years ago

According to Reddit last year, while only 4% of users are on old.reddit, 60% of all mod actions are carried out on it. They can't get rid of it for now, but they are working on bringing updates to modding on new.reddit or newnew.reddit (nickname given by me).

Early 2024 is the estimated rollout for this, so I'd say mid-to-late 2024 is when old.reddit is kicked to the curb.

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[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 years ago

If those users are just dead weight to them, it makes business sense to even convert 10% them to their main ad filled product, and let the 90% go away. They want to go public and sell, they are definitely last stage of pulling a cash grab.

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