I'll save you a click:

Hey there redditors,

As Reddit has grown, so has the complexity of the preferences we provide to meet the varied needs of our users. Our current User Settings, which allow you to change your preferences at any time, have been long overdue for some TLC. This week, we’re cleaning up and simplifying some user preferences to help users better understand how their data is being used and to be able to opt-out of settings more easily.

What’s changing:

Simplifying Personalization Preferences: Our personalization preferences have been pretty confusing. There are six personalization options, three of which deal with personalization of ads, two of which confusingly both deal with personalization of ads based on partner data. These two settings (“Personalize ads based on information from our partners” and “Personalize ads based on your activity with our partners”) will be combined into one setting: “Personalize ads based on your activity and information from our partners.” We will no longer support the option to opt out of personalization of ads based on your Reddit activity.

Removing Outbound Click Preference: While there are safety and operational purposes for tracking outbound clicks, we leverage only aggregated data and have never personalized Reddit content based on this data, so we’re removing this setting to reduce confusion.

Removing Logged Out Personalization Settings: All User Settings are tied to a user account. Previously, we had ads personalization settings available for logged out users. We’ll be removing these settings to reduce confusion.

Reddit’s commitment to user privacy isn’t changing. For users who want to have a non-personalized version of Reddit, they can always continue to use Reddit without logging in. We also launched Anonymous Browsing Mode on our iOS and Android app last year to support private browsing from our native app experience. You can find more info on Reddit's Personalization Preferences here.

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.

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

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.

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.

First it was posts disguised as ads, then removing an opt-out for tracking... good thing I'm not on Reddshit any more.

Also, for those that want to read the post/comments without loading bloat, you can use kddit (Tor v3 mirror, I2P mirror).

Considering Reddit is now a den of commies, socialists and leftist-libtards...I applaud any move to make their lives a little more bleak....whether that grief comes from within or without.