▲ 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.
[–] JCreazy@midwest.social 15 points 2 years ago (1 child) I thought all you guys left Reddit already permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] gonta@mander.xyz 16 points 2 years ago (2 children) I left r/popular and r/all but lemmy still not yet an adequate replacement for non-tech niche hobbies and interests. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] rglullis@communick.news 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Can you give me an example of subreddits that you still follow? I'm setting up a fediversed instance on alien.top, which would mean that you'd be able to follow/interact with people still on reddit from the fediverse. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] OldSchoolMonkey@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago (2 children) r/India, r/India investments, r/Kerala, r/malayalammovies, r/insidemollywood, r/watches, r/Porsche. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] rglullis@communick.news 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Nice, thank you. I'm still fixing some issues with the deployment, but hopefully it will be working soon. Do you mind if I send you a DM when it is ready? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] rglullis@communick.news 1 point 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] rglullis@communick.news 1 point 2 years ago FYI: You can subscribe now to !watches@style.land which is mirroring /r/watches and !porsche@gearhead.town is mirroring /r/porsche. Do you know if the admins at https://kerala.party would be interested in having the mirrored India-related subs? permalink fedilink source parent [–] RickRae@fosstodon.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) @gonta Is that mostly due to a lack of critical mass of users, or are there other factors? @JCreazy permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] gonta@mander.xyz 1 point 2 years ago The former. I would love to start these online communities but I don't have the time nor emergy to maintain them; I'm barely browsing reddit and lemmy as it is. For now, I can only compromise and use reddit. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] gonta@mander.xyz 16 points 2 years ago (2 children) I left r/popular and r/all but lemmy still not yet an adequate replacement for non-tech niche hobbies and interests. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] rglullis@communick.news 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Can you give me an example of subreddits that you still follow? I'm setting up a fediversed instance on alien.top, which would mean that you'd be able to follow/interact with people still on reddit from the fediverse. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] OldSchoolMonkey@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago (2 children) r/India, r/India investments, r/Kerala, r/malayalammovies, r/insidemollywood, r/watches, r/Porsche. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] rglullis@communick.news 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Nice, thank you. I'm still fixing some issues with the deployment, but hopefully it will be working soon. Do you mind if I send you a DM when it is ready? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] rglullis@communick.news 1 point 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] rglullis@communick.news 1 point 2 years ago FYI: You can subscribe now to !watches@style.land which is mirroring /r/watches and !porsche@gearhead.town is mirroring /r/porsche. Do you know if the admins at https://kerala.party would be interested in having the mirrored India-related subs? permalink fedilink source parent [–] RickRae@fosstodon.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) @gonta Is that mostly due to a lack of critical mass of users, or are there other factors? @JCreazy permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] gonta@mander.xyz 1 point 2 years ago The former. I would love to start these online communities but I don't have the time nor emergy to maintain them; I'm barely browsing reddit and lemmy as it is. For now, I can only compromise and use reddit. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Can you give me an example of subreddits that you still follow? I'm setting up a fediversed instance on alien.top, which would mean that you'd be able to follow/interact with people still on reddit from the fediverse. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] OldSchoolMonkey@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago (2 children) r/India, r/India investments, r/Kerala, r/malayalammovies, r/insidemollywood, r/watches, r/Porsche. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] rglullis@communick.news 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Nice, thank you. I'm still fixing some issues with the deployment, but hopefully it will be working soon. Do you mind if I send you a DM when it is ready? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] rglullis@communick.news 1 point 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] rglullis@communick.news 1 point 2 years ago FYI: You can subscribe now to !watches@style.land which is mirroring /r/watches and !porsche@gearhead.town is mirroring /r/porsche. Do you know if the admins at https://kerala.party would be interested in having the mirrored India-related subs? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] OldSchoolMonkey@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago (2 children) r/India, r/India investments, r/Kerala, r/malayalammovies, r/insidemollywood, r/watches, r/Porsche. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] rglullis@communick.news 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Nice, thank you. I'm still fixing some issues with the deployment, but hopefully it will be working soon. Do you mind if I send you a DM when it is ready? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] rglullis@communick.news 1 point 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] rglullis@communick.news 1 point 2 years ago FYI: You can subscribe now to !watches@style.land which is mirroring /r/watches and !porsche@gearhead.town is mirroring /r/porsche. Do you know if the admins at https://kerala.party would be interested in having the mirrored India-related subs? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Nice, thank you. I'm still fixing some issues with the deployment, but hopefully it will be working soon. Do you mind if I send you a DM when it is ready? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] rglullis@communick.news 1 point 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 point 2 years ago FYI: You can subscribe now to !watches@style.land which is mirroring /r/watches and !porsche@gearhead.town is mirroring /r/porsche. Do you know if the admins at https://kerala.party would be interested in having the mirrored India-related subs? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] RickRae@fosstodon.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) @gonta Is that mostly due to a lack of critical mass of users, or are there other factors? @JCreazy permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] gonta@mander.xyz 1 point 2 years ago The former. I would love to start these online communities but I don't have the time nor emergy to maintain them; I'm barely browsing reddit and lemmy as it is. For now, I can only compromise and use reddit. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] gonta@mander.xyz 1 point 2 years ago The former. I would love to start these online communities but I don't have the time nor emergy to maintain them; I'm barely browsing reddit and lemmy as it is. For now, I can only compromise and use reddit. permalink fedilink source parent