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

submitted 1 year ago by fer0n@lemm.ee 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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[–] krimson@feddit.nl 122 points 1 year ago (23 children)

I have the feeling the whole internet is turning into shit rapidly. Youtube is crap, Reddit is crap, everything you use needs a cloud account, my doorbell is sending me notifications about a new product, wtf is up with that. I paid for that thing and now you send me ads? Pisses me off. This corporate greed is getting too much.

[–] explodicle@local106.com 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

IMHO it's cyclical.

Computers started out client server because of limited computing capacity
Then everybody got a PC and for a while, physical media were faster than downloads
Then we got oodles of bandwidth, so servers seemed practical again
Now servers are taking advantage of the trust we've placed in them
Next, we'll all enjoy a brief P2P revolution. Hooray!
After that, homomorphic encryption will make servers seem appealing again
Even farther into the future, the attacks against that encryption will no longer be tolerable

It will be decades more before humanity accepts the teachings of Richard Stallman.

[–] Misanthrope@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you point me to some starting points or good reads by Richard Stallman? He got a solution to the cycle, then I'm down.

[–] Audacity9961@feddit.ch 10 points 1 year ago

Free software, Free society is his collection of essays.

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