Comment on Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform
stown@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Lol, personalize all my ads IDGAF. I’m not seeing any of them anyway. Thanks Unlock.
Ditto. Been using UBlock Origin for 9 years and I used Adblock Plus for 5-7 years before that. Only times I ever got ads on Reddit was in blink-and-you'll-miss-it moments where the page loads and the adblock doesn't kick in quite correctly which are few and far between.
And before someone mentions it I stopped using Reddit on mobile the day the API shit occurred so no need to worry there either lmao.
Firefox with uBlock origin and AdAway on Android would probably make Reddit mobile less shit. Pi-hole on your home network. NextDNS or AdGuard DNS on every device. If you’re still seeing ads I don’t know what to tell you. It’s becoming easier every day to have multiple layers of blocking.
Prior to the API change when I was still a Reddit user, and when accessing from mobile, I would use Firefox on Android with uBlock. Using the default mobile web UI was still pretty miserable. Every reddit link would put a giant popover “This looks better in the Reddit app! Do you want to download the app or continue in the browser”. Every. damn. time.
The only saving grace, which made for a pretty good experience was the “.compact” web UI, but then Reddit killed that around the same time. With the only option to use Reddit with the Reddit app was easy to simply stop using Reddit on mobile. Shortly after the API changes meant stopping Reddit use altogether.
I understand what you’re saying, but at the same time that still means that your personal data is flowing to a third party. All that metadata and your activity signals are still in the hands of another data partner. We don’t know how else that data is used. Display advertising is just one piece of digital marketing.
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And it’s not just about getting hypertargeted ads. It comes down to behavior manipulation. Price and coverage discrimination. The ad engine is just the tip of an iceberg not even the people who created the algorithms can understand anymore.
Nevertheless, use/donate/contribute to/share uBlock Origin. The internet is legit unusable without it at this point.
I use Google for search most of the time and also have a couple Google Home devices. I am disturbed whenever do see personalized ads but that is very rare since I have DNS based blocks at my house and use Ublock in my mobile browser. I understand that I’m going to get tracked and that I have a digital profile or two out there but I’m not really sure how valuable those profiles would be to anyone since I’m very rarely viewing ads and never interacting with them.
Kalkaline@leminal.space 9 months ago
IDGAF, I’m not going to Reddit anymore.
stown@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Eh, some search results inevitably lead me there. I’m not going to avoid getting an answer because I dislike reddit’s administrative decisions.