Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization
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#2And the enshittification continues.
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#4Is it even okay with the external ad providers or GDPR?
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#5And the enshittification continues.
On the other hand, you can’t run a heavily trafficked website without any revenue. It’s very unlikely more than a tiny fraction of their users will pay any amount to use Reddit. They need advertising.
In that situation, Reddit has to be partially accountable to their advertisers. The advertisers will want some measure of control over who sees the ads and some reporting on performance.
I get that no one likes ads but I don’t think it’s that hard to understand Reddit’s situation. You would do exactly the same if you ran an expensive website. In 30+ years of the web no one has found another model which works.
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#6And the enshittification continues.
On the other hand, you can’t run a heavily trafficked website without any revenue. It’s very unlikely more than a tiny fraction of their users will pay any amount to use Reddit. They need advertising. In that situation, Reddit has to be partially accountable to their advertisers. The advertisers will want some measure of control over who sees the ads and some reporting on performance. I get that no one likes ads but…
> The advertisers will want some measure of control over who sees the ads and some reporting on performance.
They don't get either for highway billboards or magazine ads, radio or TV ads, yet for decades they advertised that way. They want control and spyware, but they don't need it.
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#7It's tyranny of the docile. The recent batch of user hostile practices adopted by Reddit and Twitter will become industry norms because they worked, too few people actually left those services. Network effects work more against us now than for us.
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#8And ublock origin always comes up as our only solution all the time. I really wish that one day it will be available on iOS (Still not working on Orion).
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#9And the enshittification continues.
On the other hand, you can’t run a heavily trafficked website without any revenue. It’s very unlikely more than a tiny fraction of their users will pay any amount to use Reddit. They need advertising. In that situation, Reddit has to be partially accountable to their advertisers. The advertisers will want some measure of control over who sees the ads and some reporting on performance. I get that no one likes ads but…
So because nobody has found a solution in the vast amount of time that is 30 years, it could never be found? And we must bow down to advertisers? Okay bud.
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#10And the enshittification continues.
On the other hand, you can’t run a heavily trafficked website without any revenue. It’s very unlikely more than a tiny fraction of their users will pay any amount to use Reddit. They need advertising. In that situation, Reddit has to be partially accountable to their advertisers. The advertisers will want some measure of control over who sees the ads and some reporting on performance. I get that no one likes ads but…
> You would do exactly the same if you ran an expensive website.
I can say with 100% certainty that I would not do the same.