I urge everyone to install Adnauseum. You know what’s better than trying to starve advertisers of info? Filling their ad profile for you with total garbage.
We will soon begin rolling out changes to Reddit’s User settings. It is getting a refresh that includes changes to ad personalization, privacy preferences, and location settings.
As part of these changes, we are retiring a setting that you have previously turned on that limited how we used your activity from the Reddit platform to personalize ads. We have replaced the setting with a new option to select categories of ads that you may not wish to see.
More details are available in our announcement and help center.
These changes are rolling out starting today and you may see the changes over the next few days.
What if you select every category because ads are a stupid timewaste?
Regardless how many times they are telling me that Diablo 4 is “the fastest-selling ARPG ever” and flaunt the phoney 10/10 “review scores”, it’s not gonna change my opinion that the game is dog poop and thoroughly unimpressive. So why inconvenience me by making me load that shitty picture, it won’t make me buy that shit.
Unless it’s direct-response targeted, the point of adds isn’t to make you buy shit instantly, it’s to plant a seed and make you aware of a product so that one day you do spend money in it.
the people still on reddit are those with an unhealthy love of reddit. Its not dying, too many people are terminally online for them to care that reddit is vile.
If you wanna keep your bookmarks and the subreddits (communities) that you’re subscribed to before deleting your account, I made a free tool to help you store and offload that data.
No, I’m being quite literal, women were forced into having sex that they didn’t want to, were lied to about what they were going to be doing (many were told they were going to be doing modelling photo shoots), weren’t paid what they were promised, and were physically forced into doing things they said they didn’t want to do. You can look it up
ah yes, im going to act smug to pretend I have a point
redditor, leave your lingo at the door
Just because people are paid to do a job doesn’t mean it isn’t still coercion. Wages aren’t consent. I know you don’t believe the lie that people can just choose their job or have unlimited choices and just choose to be poorer people for the kicks.
Honestly never been so happy to move off Reddit, every other week I’m hearing Reddit just shoot itself in the foot and then double down even harder to lose users
same here. and as sad as I am about Apollo, Voyager is exactly the same for the rare times I use Lemmy on Mobile. so I really haven’t had any use for reddit at all anymore… outside of adding it to my searches maybe.
Apollo is the reason I left Reddit too and I was gonna go back on android for sync pro but then they said they’re leaving Reddit too, so I moved over to lemmy.ml then I lost my account then I went to lemmy.world
Same. My reddit consumption and engagement has dropped drastically when they fucked over their power users. I believe that has hurt them immeasurably but at the same time they’re massive.
Anecdotally I was on a thread yesterday reading the comments and my god it’s not disgusting but it’s a weird uncanny valley. Methinks they have internally masked the impact by building out bots using LLMs.
I got 4 posts to a reply on my cake day. That to me is abnormal behaviour.
I saw a comment get a reply linking the exact same YouTube link not as a quote but in the reply with very generated language. That was then followed with very much “this is a reply my fellow good human” type replies.
I honestly think they’re fucked. I think they’re just hiding they’re fucked.
Ok so it isn’t just me? I can’t tell if it’s just maybe people from fledgling online countries all trying to simulate what they think the Internet is like cause they are excited to finally be part of it or just literal bots trained to sound like humans to pad numbers.
Upvotes still seem like bot controlled with massive variances in the same subreddit from the ones that feel like ads to posts that are clearly human generated.
There is a weird vibe over there. Like a city full of plastic people.
There is a weird vibe over there. Like a city full of plastic people.
Perfect summary.
To be clear as well I’ve been on reddit 10+ years. It’s “different” now. Uncanny valley. I’m trying to be objective. I don’t have near the vitreol of many people here on lemmy. I’m actually fairly indifferent outside of them running their site into the ground.
Also worth mentioning it’s more visible in large subs. My city sub is real ppl. I got the weird vibe from a top 10 sub.
That describes what Reddit feels like currently pretty accurately. Was it like this since that api shutdown or before then? Because as a long time user it’s definitely gone downhill in terms of healthy engagement.
I purged my account history to useless amounts after seeing this. I still stick to having Reddit account just for having “freedom” of access to information. RedReader and old Reddit + RES are doing well for me.
Ublock is awesome, but it can’t block first party from analyze, sell and use your data for anything out of your control. Use a fake account, a VPN and/or tor browser to isolate your identities. Stopping ads isn’t enough to stop exploitation of your data
Yep, I use a VPN just in general, and wipe my Reddit history every 30 days or so. I would make new accounts, but the ones I have are from before they demanded an email address, so they haven’t got one attached.
