I actually enjoyed ad personalization when it first started. I got shown ads for things that were actually interesting to me, video games hardware etc, but at this point it resembles what cable TV ads were when I stopped watching TV: car commercials, prescription drugs, baby and feminine products (am not parent, am not female). So now they just spying your behavior to learn the best way to trick you into buying crap you don't need and don't supply any sort of reach around.
this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2023
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Fuck Reddit.
I got this message too. I’m torn between just deleting the accounts and be done with it and leaving them to sit with no activity and no ad impressions.
Or set your location to a European country?
A better idea. I already tried to change my email to a European provider, though, and Reddit refused.
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The only really long term viable model is a donation model. Ad tracking is abusive and the legality is waning, and subscription models for what's basically a public good are fucked.
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reddit makes experience worse for users
Other shocking news at 11
Woah big shocker, anyway
If you wanna keep your bookmarks and the subreddits (communities) that you're subscribed to before deleting your account, I made a free tool to help you store and offload that data.
It's called Reddit Account Manager, and it's 100% free.
You can also use it to manage your Lemmy account(s), of course.
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I still go to Reddit subs when something interesting appears in my RSS feed.
As soon as they kill RSS (and honestly I'm pretty surprised they haven't yet), I'll never go there again.
The new pinned sponsor add at the top is so distracting. Used it to figure out a sports stream, awful experience.