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.

  • millie@lemmy.filmEnglish
    33·
    1 year ago

    I mean, yeah. Have you been on reddit since the API stuff? It’s absolutely flooded with bots trying to make up the difference. Which is like, reddit playbook 2009. The broken links are pretty prolific too at this point.

    It’s not going to like, close its doors, but it certainly isn’t in the position it was just a few months ago.

    • towerful@programming.dev
      1·
      1 year ago

      Although it makes it harder for me, I actually quite like hitting a Google result on Reddit and seeing swaths of editted/deleted comments.

    • Mandy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      no difference, why you may ask?

      just look at youtube, same shit different color, it keeps getting worse but they are still the king in terms of video hsoting

      • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Yes but the emperor has no clothes, and more and more people are realising this.

        Also reddit is made up primarily by users and the posts/comments they make, YouTube is made up by paid video creators. YouTubers don’t have anywhere else to go, but reddit users do and just need a critical mass somewhere else for reddit to go the way of digg.