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PSA: Reddit is Forcing Users to Accept Personalized Ads (www.macrumors.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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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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[–] 21 points 3 years ago (2 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.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years 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.

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