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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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[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 55 points 1 year ago (3 children)

if this is your version of the end of times, I suggest you take a look out your window at the burning hellscape of western north america and other locations around the globe. I also hope you're not too attached to birds or polar bears.

[–] Kerrigor@kbin.social 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My world ends whenever someone doesn't understand hyperbole

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now I become death, destroyer of literary device

[–] dom@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You became Death? How did you manage that?

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 year ago

By taking things literally, apparently

[–] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

This makes me want to just set myself on fire!

[–] Palerider@feddit.uk 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

birds or polar bears

Phew! Luckily I just like penguins...

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have bad news. Penguins are a hybrid of bird and polar bear.

[–] tryitout@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

Even the name Penguin is a hybrid of polar and penguin.