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.
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.
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.
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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.
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 see. That was confusing, since the top-level comment wasn’t mine, yet you replied to me. Thanks for clarifying.