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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.
Time for a new influx. Everyone still on reddit needs to advertise lemmy.
And not join-lemmy.org, that's confusing. Just pick one of the larger servers like lemm.ee or fedia.io and tell people to browse it and click "Sign Up" if they like it.
I'd recommend a smaller community to help spread the load. I originally signed up on .world but they were having some growing pains (And a disgruntled idiot ddosing them) so I moved to .ca which helped tremendously.
I really disagree. For learning lemmy for average people, big instance is best.
There is a point where people who stick around are likely to make a new "real" account on a different smaller server, after they know what they want to browse.
Basically big instances should be like training wheels.
Yeah tbh this is how I did it and I consider myself tEcH sAvVy - still started with .world because I didn't know where else to go.
You need to know the special password for .ca
Is it "sorry"?
„Eh“
Dot see eh?
I'm Canadian anyway, so I have it memorized.
Hello Canadian, I’m maple syrup!
We may be related, I'm 40% maple.
I see! I’m actually 33% polar bear and 66% maple, we may be not so distant cousins!
I went to iusearchlinux.fyi and came back to .world about a week ago. It seems to be doing very well now.
maybe start posting links from lemmy like what happened with digg (i think? wasn't there for it)
Don't forget lemmy.fiftyfifty.one , ani.social, programming.dev and lemmynsfw.com
Also Canada and Germany have fairly large servers. Politely promote whatever fits the context and let people know having multiple accounts on different servers is 100% cool 😎
Neat, so they are monetising your activities on the plattform. Isn't that great?
Corporate does corporate things.
For-profit company exploits userbase for profit. More at 11:00.
I’m surprised you’re surprised that others are surprised… because no one is surprised about this.
They've always been doing it, they're just gonna stop hiding it now.
This really doesn't sound legal.
I hope spez has good GDPR lawyers!
I was going to ask as well. Doesn't it like infringe on a law madd by California or the EU or some shit?
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.
It still means they're selling your info to advertisers
I think this is the removal of the opt out of selling my data to advertisers?
Yup ads and posts on reddit are becoming even more indistinguishable, the "organic community" is just a selling point for marketing because you can embed yourself in it, basically just exploiting their users. The metrics to gauge ad performance is based on things that make the site shitty as well. Reddit, at least the big subs, haven't been organic in this way for a long time, it's basically a simulation of an organic online community at this point.
reddit has ads?
Reddit is ads.
Yea, ublock always blocks them on old Reddit. So this technically won't affect me.
I'm sure old.reddit is on its way out in the near future.