Dear User,

We will soon begin rolling out changes to Reddit’s User settings. It is getting a refresh that includes changes to ad personalization, privacy preferences, and location settings.

As part of these changes, we are retiring a setting that you have previously turned on that limited how we used your activity from the Reddit platform to personalize ads. We have replaced the setting with a new option to select categories of ads that you may not wish to see.

More details are available in our announcement and help center.

These changes are rolling out starting today and you may see the changes over the next few days.

Users will be tracked with no opt out. Posts may be monetized, which will make content even worse No refund or any type of usable credit for users that spent hundreds on Reddit coins The entire vibe has done a 180° since all these new “positive changes” are rolled out.

  • TehWorld@lemmy.world
    1923·
    2 years ago

    I’m not spending much time on Reddit these days but in no way is this the end for Reddit. The VAST majority of the user base just doesn’t care. We may see more users trickling in and Lemmy is sure more ready now than ever but people are so used to being advertised to, that this won’t be a big issue long term. People are dumb.

    • foggy@lemmy.world
      67·
      2 years ago

      Idk man, literally asked a bunch (3) of friends how reddit is lately who had no idea what was going on this summer with the API changes and didn’t care when I told them. Here are there responses:

      “They’ve gotten really bad at putting relevant shit in front of me”

      “Been a ton more ads lately”

      And

      “dude thank you for telling me reddit had porn lol”

        • Shush@reddthat.com
          1·
          2 years ago

          I always wondered if there were people oblivious to porn on reddit. It always seemed like common knowledge those days.

          It’s not the usual manufactured porn by companies, it’s usually people showcasing a video of themselves.

          • DrQuint@lemm.ee
            1·
            2 years ago

            A lot of people’s approach to social media is

            • login an absolute total of times equal to one, on an app, and never again, that session better last

            • do zero content curation, what comes is what you eat

            • mostly scroll past shit, don’t interact, don’t produce

            • maybe click on a navigation link once or twice per month

            So of course they don’t know there’s porn. They’re basically only seeing their feed (which is a clone of /r/popular, so a bunch of clones of /r/funny and ragebait) and the default subs, which doesn’t have porn by default ever since reddit removed its ability to show up on default feeds.

    • Rolando@lemmy.world
      45·
      2 years ago

      The hope is that the non-dumb people will leave for here, and that they’re the ones who make quality content.

    • Jah348@lemm.ee
      8·
      2 years ago

      This is for sure the final nail, it’s going to collapse just like Facebook and Google did after all that ad stuff. Profiting off a user data is clearly a failed business model and we see that time and time again.

    • ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 years ago

      I completely agree with this!

      Also, it’s an unfortunate rule of thumb that, when you see a sensationalized headline, most likely it won’t have the effect it claims to have…

      Well, let’s hope there’s a steady migration to Lemmy (though numbers are small here)

      Edit: added last line

    • Doc Blaze@lemmy.world
      12·
      2 years ago

      does Reddit still have a .onion site? I feel like perhaps you can use the .onion site and be able to escape this. the tor browser was specifically modified from Firefox to avoid fingerprinting.

      • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I think this is more for accounts, since it tracks upvote/downvote, etc

      • HughJanus@lemmy.ml
        11·
        2 years ago

        Fingerprinting is mostly pointless once you’re logged into the site.

        You can use Mullvad which is TOR but without the TOR.

        • PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          2 years ago

          Can you explain more about Mullvad wrt Tor? I’m shopping for a new VPN & looked into Mullvad extensively because it’s my #1 choice so far. What about it specifically makes you say that?

          • HughJanus@lemmy.ml
            3·
            2 years ago

            Mullvad the browser, not the VPN. They partnered with the TOR project to create it. So it has all the same browser protections of the TOR browser except that it doesn’t go through the TOR network so it’s actually mostly useable for general daily use.

            Mullvad is probably the best choice exclusively for VPN. I chose Proton only because of their “suite” of products under a single subscription.

            • PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works
              1·
              2 years ago

              Ahhhh, my apologies…I completely misunderstood!

              Thank you for taking the time to explain all that, and for the positive words about Mullvad VPN. My current subscription is almost up, so I should get it soon. Have a good one :)

    • dth@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 years ago

      the announcement was finally the one that made me leave. better late than never i guess!

    • TheFriar@lemm.ee
      9·
      2 years ago

      Right? I hope more and more people leave. It’d be great if more users came to lemmy, but I’d be content just seeing people leave that putrid site

      • CheatMageLVL99@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        I might just start visiting forums for relevant information again. Lemmy seems to be pretty decent for now. Reddit really has gone downhill.

  • gabe [he/him]@literature.cafe
    14·
    2 years ago

    It’s only just begun. That’s what they said about Xitter ages ago as well, but if it can get worse it absolutely fucking will

  • HiramFromTheChi@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 years ago

    If you wanna keep your bookmarks and the subreddits (communities) that you’re subscribed to before deleting your Reddit account, I made a free tool to help you store and offload that data.

    It’s called Reddit Account Manager, and it’s 100% free.

    You can also use it to manage your Lemmy account(s), of course.

      • HiramFromTheChi@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        Your question’s a little nuanced, so let me try to answer this as thoroughly as possible:

        The short answer is: If the platform you choose to use it is accessible from your Android phone, then yes. But it’s not Android- or iOS-specific.

        Out of the platforms that it’s available on (Airtable, Notion, Coda, ClickUp, and Baserow), all of them except for Baserow have native mobile apps. With that said, Baserow is also mobile responsive, so you don’t need a native mobile app to work with Reddit Account Manager.

        • Reddit Account Manager is a template built on top of those tools (Airtable, Notion, Coda, ClickUp, and Baserow), so you’ll need an account with at least one of those to use it.
        • Reddit Account Manager is built without code.

        Hope that clears things up. :)

  • Mosebulb@lemm.ee
    10·
    2 years ago

    wow, it really is just slow erosion of our rights, huh?

    extremely disappointed that we are all fighting for our basic fucking human rights (e.g. privacy) instead of, i dunno, fighting climate change? There’s little hope that we can do what we did with the ozone layer again…

    • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
      14·
      2 years ago

      The problem is you (and many others, not singling you out here) believed you had rights on a privately controled web platform.

      This has never been the case.

      In the past reddit said and had “terms of service” that suited their business goals at the time. In the past, those goals were: Use VC money to grow the platform as large as possible as fast as possible.

      Now that Reddit is looking to go public with an IPO, those goals have changed.

      The goal is now. Generate as much revenue as possible from the user-base created with the VC money.

  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    9·
    2 years ago

    refunds for people who spent memory on Reddit coins

    Yeeeeeaaaaahhhhh all of your points are valid but if anyone ever spent money on coins, it’s all in the trash anyway

    Apollo let me turn awards off and it was one of the best features. So much cleaner.

    • PupBiru@kbin.social
      5·
      2 years ago

      afaik this is only reddit activity, so they’re going to be able to track anything and everything no matter what privacy addons you’re using if you’re logged in

    • Whisp@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      You’ll want to be careful using too many privacy add-ons/add-ons in general since it can serve as a fingerprint for your browser.

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    So what’s the current method for overwriting and removing comments before account deletion?

  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
    1·
    2 years ago

    I don’t think this will move the needle at all

    Reddit mods had a chance to migrate but decided to sit and wait thinking they could change Reddit