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PSA: Reddit is Forcing Users to Accept Personalized Ads (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s not the only way companies get data about you though.

Nobody said it was.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was mostly replying to the top level comment about choosing companies/products that respect your privacy. It's pretty much impossible to tell if a company cares about or respects your privacy just from the sign up form.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It read as though you thought picking out one particular case that I didn't address somehow refuted what I wrote. (Which it doesn't, of course, because I wasn't making an exhaustive list.)

I was mostly replying to the top level comment

I see. That was confusing, since the top-level comment wasn't mine, yet you replied to me. Thanks for clarifying.