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

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They should teach defensive web-browsing in schools.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I want to live in that reality