Fuck Reddit.
this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2023
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I got this message too. I’m torn between just deleting the accounts and be done with it and leaving them to sit with no activity and no ad impressions.
Or set your location to a European country?
A better idea. I already tried to change my email to a European provider, though, and Reddit refused.
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The only really long term viable model is a donation model. Ad tracking is abusive and the legality is waning, and subscription models for what's basically a public good are fucked.
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Woah big shocker, anyway
If you wanna keep your bookmarks and the subreddits (communities) that you're subscribed to before deleting your 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.
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I still go to Reddit subs when something interesting appears in my RSS feed.
As soon as they kill RSS (and honestly I'm pretty surprised they haven't yet), I'll never go there again.
I opted out by deleting every trace of my account and never returning. it was easy.
The new pinned sponsor add at the top is so distracting. Used it to figure out a sports stream, awful experience.
Reddit Revanced says no!
This is the message they are sending to users:
Hey u/username,
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.
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It feels like we’re hitting a point similar to politics in America. 30% will hold on no matter what, and the company is going to take them for all their worth because they know they’re die hard loyalists and aren’t leaving.
Maybe I'll stop getting those "He Gets Us" ads if I cruise the atheist subreddits.
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That shit is beyond broken. I‘m glad I left.