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

submitted 9 months 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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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 9 months ago

If it's anything like Twitter, it resigns you up to them anyway. There's no "turn off all" as far as I could see. The missus has to run some JS to untick all the boxes for her. Next week she'll go back and it will have ticked more.