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.
privacy badger, ghostery, ublock origins, etc…
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
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.
Is there a reason to use anything else besides uBlockOrigin?
Sort of, ublock and those other addons really serve different purposes.
uBlockOrigin blocks ads where things like Ghostery or Privacy Badger block website trackers.
Firefox I believe natively blocks trackers, so you don’t really need anything other than uBlock with it.
Edit: It does indeed block trackers by default
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop