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.

    • Doc Blaze@lemmy.world
      12·
      1 year 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·
        1 year ago

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

      • HughJanus@lemmy.ml
        11·
        1 year 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·
          1 year 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·
            1 year 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·
              1 year 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 :)