Reddit this week announced that it will no longer allow Reddit users to opt out of ad personalization, which means that ads on the platform will be...

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.

@pre@feddit.uk
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They will not be forcing me to accept personalized ads. How are they going to personalize them when I have no reddit account, block their cookies, use a VPN and change my IP address often, and don’t use their website.

neosheo
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Isn’t it sad that we have to do all this to prevent our information being spread around the corporate world like a virus

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They should teach defensive web-browsing in schools.

neosheo
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I want to live in that reality

Well if you don’t use their website you aren’t a user.

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