I learned about lemmy from this story
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Same. Just migrated to Lemmy using the Boost app after hearing the news. Should have done earlier. Can’t trust a greedy company after what happened before.
Lemmy’s been wonderful. Like reddit of yore. Like how reddit should be. Like it should still be. Reminder, tell others. The more the merrier. I’ve told tons of people while just being in line at restaurants/ coffee shops when people peer over my shoulder while browsing on mobile. Reddit took mobile away from us (even though I found a way with a patched reddit app but the reddit app is just damn fucking bad. That reddit app is a miserable experience with or ads no ads).
If I had ever visited reddit without an adblocker in place, I am sure this would have upset me…
old.reddit plus ublock was the only way for me.
How do I nuke my reddit account again? I wasn’t going to in case they decided to smarten up, but fuck ‘em
Reddit said Wednesday that the platform is revamping its privacy settings with an aim to make ad personalization and account visibility toggles consistent. Most notably though, it is removing the ability to opt out of ad personalization based on Reddit activity.
Emphasis mine. The matter here is not consistency; the article author correctly identified it, it’s to prevent users from disabling ad personalisation. Perhaps Reddit users wouldn’t be trying to burn the platform down from the inside, if it didn’t lie to the users so often, like this.
“Reddit requires very little personal information, and we like it that way. Our advertisers instead rely on on-platform activity—what communities you join, leave, upvotes, downvotes, and other signals—to get an idea of what you might be interested in,”
That’s a lot of information and arguably personal.
I’m glad that I moved out.
If you are listening to these people, join Reddit again. I will harvest all of the data FOR YOUR BENEFIT! You want a free Reddit, right? Well then, Support this change. Privacy is dead.
Wouldn’t this be illegal in the EU?
Glad the Lemmy Migration seems to be progressing nicely
Yes, we know. Can we please stop reposting this over and over again? This is the fourth time I’ve seen this post in the past two days.
It’s OK if the content of this comm gets a bit redundant with other comms. It’s useful for documenting.
