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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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[–] 16 points 3 years ago (7 children)

I left r/popular and r/all but lemmy still not yet an adequate replacement for non-tech niche hobbies and interests.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (3 children)

    r/India, r/India investments, r/Kerala, r/malayalammovies, r/insidemollywood, r/watches, r/Porsche.

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

    @gonta

    Is that mostly due to a lack of critical mass of users, or are there other factors?

    @JCreazy

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  • [–] 1 point 3 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.

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