▲ 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.
[–] ono@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) That’s not the only way companies get data about you though. Nobody said it was. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] dan@upvote.au 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ono@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dan@upvote.au 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ono@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ono@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent