▲ 432 ▼ PSA: Reddit is Forcing Users to Accept Personalized Ads (www.macrumors.com) submitted 2 years ago by fer0n@lemm.ee to c/technology@beehaw.org 100 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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.
[–] NotBadAndYou@ttrpg.network 9 points 2 years ago (3 children) Who views ads in Reddit? Except for all the shill posts, that is. permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org 22 points 2 years ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] loops@beehaw.org 9 points 2 years ago Shill posts, shill posts everywhere. permalink fedilink source parent [–] mobyduck648@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago There's enough astroturf on Reddit for a continent's worth of obnoxious suburban fake lawns. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org 22 points 2 years ago 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] loops@beehaw.org 9 points 2 years ago Shill posts, shill posts everywhere. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mobyduck648@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago There's enough astroturf on Reddit for a continent's worth of obnoxious suburban fake lawns. permalink fedilink source parent