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Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform (techcrunch.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.ml
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[–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

A lot of sites show up in Google results and then force you to log in to actually see the content. I think most of them just get away with hiding the content a second after loading it in, that way the crawler bot still is able to see all the page but the user isn't

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Similar to twitter.

    If I go to twitter mainpage I can't see anything without logging in.

    If I go direct to a profile I see can't see anything without logging and;

    If I go to a specific post, I can read the initial post but nothing else.

    That's what I expect will happen to Reddit

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