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minus-squareZWho63@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up53·1 year agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/16tqihd/settings_updateschanges_to_ad_personalization/ Reddit just decided it was a good idea to REMOVE the option to disable ad personalisation. Good job u/spez. We know what you’re doing.
minus-squareprivateger@lemmy.plasmatrap.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoThis really doesn’t sound legal.
minus-squaremacniel@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoNeat, so they are monetising your activities on the plattform. Isn’t that great?
minus-squareempireOfLove@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThey’ve always been doing it, they’re just gonna stop hiding it now.
minus-squareseitanic@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoOh, okay. I had no idea. I was like “How far do I have to scroll to find out what reddit did this time?” Wouldn’t affect me anyway, because I use an ad blocker.
minus-squareAOCapitulator [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoI think this is the removal of the opt out of selling my data to advertisers?
minus-squareThembo McBembo@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoIt still means they’re selling your info to advertisers
minus-squareverysoft@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoWhy are these people still there, do they just stick around on reddit to complain about it?
minus-squarejballs@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI think the average person is not willing to take 5 minutes to figure out how Kbin or Lemmy works.
minus-squareandrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoHating Reddit is the usual Reddit routine, the one you may be rewarded for with Reddit’s updoots.
https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/16tqihd/settings_updateschanges_to_ad_personalization/
Reddit just decided it was a good idea to REMOVE the option to disable ad personalisation. Good job u/spez. We know what you’re doing.
This really doesn’t sound legal.
I hope spez has good GDPR lawyers!
Neat, so they are monetising your activities on the plattform. Isn’t that great?
Corporate does corporate things.
They’ve always been doing it, they’re just gonna stop hiding it now.
Oh, okay. I had no idea. I was like “How far do I have to scroll to find out what reddit did this time?”
Wouldn’t affect me anyway, because I use an ad blocker.
I think this is the removal of the opt out of selling my data to advertisers?
It still means they’re selling your info to advertisers
Why are these people still there, do they just stick around on reddit to complain about it?
Because other people are there
I think the average person is not willing to take 5 minutes to figure out how Kbin or Lemmy works.
Hating Reddit is the usual Reddit routine, the one you may be rewarded for with Reddit’s updoots.