redditors will now have the ability to ‘Hide’ an ad from their feed – and when you do, we’ll automatically hide future ads from that advertiser account for at least a year (you can re-hide the ad after that period of time).
Huh, I’ve got all advertisers hidden forever on Lemmy
Why are people still accepting this?
Reddit has a lot of content and users, I had to switch to Lemmy after being IP banned from reddit (called too many nazis “nazis” I guess) but I really miss the news feed I had cultivated there.
I use the old.reddit.com/r/subreddit+subreddit1 bookmark approach to get a reddit feed without relying on reddit account for a subscription on desktop browser.
And on Android I use Stealth from F-Droid which is an app that lets you subscribe locally, save locally, and lets you have different profiles with different subscriptions. And it is account free with no way to log in.
Moving to primarily lurking is the route I’ve taken.
RSS works too. Just add .rss to the end of the old.reddit URL for the sub, e.g. old.reddit.com/subreddit1.rss
I use redreader to lurk.
Steal the content “for AI training”?
I think they reached a point where their user base was predominantly mainstream, not tech-savvy enough to know the difference.
I mean, how else can any site survive on advertising when the ads are so obnoxious and it’s so easy to block them? Either the site is great and the ads are non-intrusive enough that I’ll make an exception in uBlock, or I’m never seeing the ads in the first place.
This Reddit place is never gonna take off if they keep treating users this way
The majority of their users are bots, which don’t care how they are treated.
I used to love reporting ads for suicide watch on reddit…
They took that option away quick tho. I am sure the marketing parasite got his feels hurt.
