▲ 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.
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 years ago (1 child) Is that even legal in the EU? permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] friendlymessage@feddit.de 25 points 2 years ago (1 child) In select countries, the option to turn off ad personalization will remain, allowing Reddit to continue to comply with GDPR restrictions. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 2 years ago If it's anything like Twitter, it resigns you up to them anyway. There's no "turn off all" as far as I could see. The missus has to run some JS to untick all the boxes for her. Next week she'll go back and it will have ticked more. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] friendlymessage@feddit.de 25 points 2 years ago (1 child) In select countries, the option to turn off ad personalization will remain, allowing Reddit to continue to comply with GDPR restrictions. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 2 years ago If it's anything like Twitter, it resigns you up to them anyway. There's no "turn off all" as far as I could see. The missus has to run some JS to untick all the boxes for her. Next week she'll go back and it will have ticked more. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 2 years ago If it's anything like Twitter, it resigns you up to them anyway. There's no "turn off all" as far as I could see. The missus has to run some JS to untick all the boxes for her. Next week she'll go back and it will have ticked more. permalink fedilink source parent