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Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

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Post by sneak »

ThePowerOfFuet wrote: post #150
sneak wrote: post #149

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Sadly, Apollo is spyware. :(

>Sadly, Apollo is spyware. :( Their App Store privacy report, as well as the app developer's explicit privacy policy, directly contradicts you. Could you kindly back that up with some evidence, or is this more FUD from you?

It uploads your usage data and identifiers (presumably username) without consent, and does so via IP, leaking your city-level location to the developers.

My information is coming directly from its app store privacy label.

Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

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Post by ThePowerOfFuet »

sneak wrote: post #151
ThePowerOfFuet wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Sadly, Apollo is spyware. :( Their App Store privacy report, as well as the app developer's explicit privacy policy, directly contradicts you. Could you kindly back that up with some evidence, or is this more FUD from you?

It uploads your usage data and identifiers (presumably username) without consent, and does so via IP, leaking your city-level location to the developers. My information is coming directly from its app store privacy label.

Your reddit username is not your identity, and it's data which reddit already has. In fact, you can use it to browse reddit without being signed in, and reddit will glean much less data from you by the use of Apollo in either case.

The developer specifically states that they perform no user-linked tracking with their app. Their monetization model also supports this conclusion.

Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

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Post by [deleted] »

yalogin wrote: post #120

Worst part is they don’t give any reason. Looks like it’s purely a cost cutting measure. It probably doesn’t meet their ad percentages for a sub and it probably throws a wrench into their load balancing plans as the sub only gets active in December and after that it’s dormant. It’s a shame because this was what endeared me to Reddit among other things a long time ago. They should think of this as an investment just l…

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Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

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Post by toast0 »

Y_Y wrote: post #70
toast0 wrote: post #67

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The beauty of being a Grinch is you don't need to hide it. I have no birthday, and I don't celebrate gift giving holidays. I don't want any presents, and I won't reciprocate. I do apprechiate postcards and holiday cards though, but I don't generally send them and I'll feel a little bad about that. Maybe one day, my heart will grow three sizes and I'll start sending a handful of cards.

I don't like having a birthday either, and I will sometimes give people presents, but I absolutely never want any. This seems to cause friction though, and maybe represents some kind of personality issue. I don't know why I'm like this or what it might mean though. For the record, I did secret Santa a couple of times. First time went to a ton of effort to send a nice, appropriate thing (House of Leaves colour hardbac…

> This seems to cause friction though, and maybe represents some kind of personality issue. I don't know why I'm like this or what it might mean though.

Maybe I'm biased, but if expressing your non-consent of celebrating something about you that you didn't chose causes friction, that's not your personality issue. A desire to give everyone presents even if they don't want them is the personality issue.

Receiving a present creates a social obligation to deliver a present later and may also be a conflict of interest. My spouse was an elected official (board of supervisors of a tiny government agency) and it was great because I had a concrete reason to refuse gifts; anything from not close family over a tiny threshold had a reporting obligation, and anything over a not so big threshold was prohibited; nobody wanted to participate in reporting, so no gifts.

Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

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Post by dang »

LightG wrote: post #74
xanaxagoras wrote: post #21

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For me reddit lost sight of why I used the site about 3 years ago, or maybe that's just when it got bad enough that I no longer felt unsubscribing from all defaults was a suitable solution. There's really nowhere left to hide from the rigorous enforcement of orthodox leftist thought. It's mostly a mutual admiration society where the boundaries of allowed disagreement and interesting discussion may touch here and ther…

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Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

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Post by Ueland »

ehsankia wrote: post #29
Rebelgecko wrote: post #17

Maybe I'm not the typical user, but to me reddit seems to be losing sight of why people use the site. They're killing aspects of the community that people actually care about. In the meantime, most of the site's new features seem to be centered around avatars and selling cosmetic microtransactions. I can't blame them too much for trying to monetize, but I wish their strategies were more inclusive of the way I use red…

At least they have still kept old.reddit.com around, which thankfully doesn't have most of the new bullshit. The day they kill that is the day reddit will be truly dead.

Ironically, i read your comment and now i keep getting a cookie banner on old.reddit.com cant cannot be remomved, and redirecets to new.reddit.com instead.

Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

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Post by fshbbdssbbgdd »

willis936 wrote: post #118
fshbbdssbbgdd wrote: post #40

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The average large subreddit has low quality left wing discourse, and the large conservative subreddits have low quality right wing discourse. I thinking mentioning them by name might ruin them, but there are definitely subreddits out there with a diverse range of political views and good discussion on those topics. I think it’s impossible for large subreddits to maintain reasonable conversation about politics because…

HN is not reddit. I wouldn't mention HN by name on reddit for fear of damaging the community. The reverse is not true.

For the same reasons that I wouldn’t mention HN on reddit, I also wouldn’t mention small high-quality subreddits in other parts of reddit, or anywhere public.

Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

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Post by fortran77 »

willis936 wrote: post #118
fshbbdssbbgdd wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The average large subreddit has low quality left wing discourse, and the large conservative subreddits have low quality right wing discourse. I thinking mentioning them by name might ruin them, but there are definitely subreddits out there with a diverse range of political views and good discussion on those topics. I think it’s impossible for large subreddits to maintain reasonable conversation about politics because…

HN is not reddit. I wouldn't mention HN by name on reddit for fear of damaging the community. The reverse is not true.

There's plenty of groups on reddit that talk about HN all the time, like /r/programmingcirclejerk

Hacker News manages to survive!

Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

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Post by parafactual »

LightG wrote: post #93
parafactual wrote: post #91

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Most of Reddit is left-of-center though, and prevailing opinions on Reddit can be pushed pretty forcefully. I don't think it's part of a broader problem of "orthodox leftist thought" but of Reddit being a place like no other for cultivating orthodoxy. Maybe they found subreddits that were less left-leaning to either be even worse or too inactive.

Are you seriously telling me that there are not areas on Reddit where people like the OP can ... how can I put this politely ... salve themselves with the gentle, safe caress of their desired echo chamber? I don't buy it.

Maybe not if OP, despite attributing an importance to "leftist orthodoxy" that I think is silly, does take into account factors beyond Good Side or Bad Side. I could imagine someone finding a subreddit that matches their opinions very well, then leaving it because the culture surrounding those opinions is so toxic.

Re: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

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Post by mustacheemperor »

tester34 wrote: post #69
smnscu wrote: post #2

Top comment nails it: > So you took over someone elses project years ago, made some money off of it and then killed it. Yikes.

how they made money off it?

In addition to the other comment, they also sold an "elves" subscription program.
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