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But yeah keep going back to their site and watch their ads, that'll show them for sure.
Or, you could do what I do - use [https://old.reddit.com](Old Reddit) with an ad blocker. That hurts them on two levels -
Spez is already talking about monetizing users account histories. Just blocking the ads isn't going to stop them.
Have a citation for that? Because that sounds like a great link for an inevitable edited response to all my comment history
I'll have to find it, but multiple places he's talked about Reddit being used by companies to train their AI systems. It's painfully obvious that he's looking for both moral and immoral ways to monetize Reddit immediately. I give it 3 months before this is announced.