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spc50 wrote

Summary:

  1. We will no longer support the option to opt out of personalization of ads based on your Reddit activity.

  2. If you are logged out of reddit and cruising the site, no longer can you customize ad crap preferences.

Just another big fat company pushing ads hard and ugly.

Erect your ad blockers folks. Trust none of them.

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Wahaha wrote

Is this going to do anything for folks that have adblockers up anyway?

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Rambler OP wrote

You won't see them, unless the "disguised as a post" type ads.

old.reddit.com for desktop use and "RIF is fun" (previous 'reddit is fun', but reddit cried over the use of their name) app for mobile. Only way to view that site nowadays.

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spc50 wrote

Likely, no.

This is why everyone needs to get a network level gateway/router/firewall solution and push blocking regardless of device connected to the LAN.

Policies and good intended laws at this point aren't going to save people from the vileness of the silly-con valley, data collectors, organized crime and hundreds of organizations collecting data to be used against you in the future. No you won't need to be a law breaker either. What they treat the convicted to always trickles down to the general public.

Remember when crypto export controls where about terrorism? Now we have normal people daily behind crypto on everything they do. Now the enemy is DARPA involved in the child trafficking and potential of. Companies like Palantir mirroring content on popular public sites like Craigslist - in cooperation with DARPA (funding).

Ads too started about just selling a product. Now the product is this long tail tracking and profiling. Give you something for 'free' to trick you onto their slave plantation. You are the product and being bought and sold and abused like a street walker. You just don't know it yet.

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