I learned about lemmy from this story

Glad the Lemmy Migration seems to be progressing nicely

How do I nuke my reddit account again? I wasn’t going to in case they decided to smarten up, but fuck ‘em

Reddit said Wednesday that the platform is revamping its privacy settings with an aim to make ad personalization and account visibility toggles consistent. Most notably though, it is removing the ability to opt out of ad personalization based on Reddit activity.

Emphasis mine. The matter here is not consistency; the article author correctly identified it, it's to prevent users from disabling ad personalisation. Perhaps Reddit users wouldn't be trying to burn the platform down from the inside, if it didn't lie to the users so often, like this.

“Reddit requires very little personal information, and we like it that way. Our advertisers instead rely on on-platform activity—what communities you join, leave, upvotes, downvotes, and other signals—to get an idea of what you might be interested in,”

That's a lot of information and arguably personal.

I'm glad that I moved out.

If you are listening to these people, join Reddit again. I will harvest all of the data FOR YOUR BENEFIT! You want a free Reddit, right? Well then, Support this change. Privacy is dead.

Yes, we know. Can we please stop reposting this over and over again? This is the fourth time I've seen this post in the past two days.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Reddit said Wednesday that the platform is revamping its privacy settings with an aim to make ad personalization and account visibility toggles consistent.

Our advertisers instead rely on on-platform activity—what communities you join, leave, upvotes, downvotes, and other signals—to get an idea of what you might be interested in,” Reddit said.

Reddit is seemingly removing toggles for getting post recommendations based on “general location” and activity on partner sites and apps.

The social network said it will also roll out controls to limit certain advertising categories such as alcohol, weight loss, dating, gambling pregnancy, and parenting.

It infamously made changes to its data API terms that led to many third-party clients shutting down and subreddits protesting in retaliation.

In an interview with The Verge in June, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman responded to IPO rumors and said “Getting to breakeven is a priority for us in any climate.”

The original article contains 415 words, the summary contains 147 words. Saved 65%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

Wouldn't this be illegal in the EU?

If I had ever visited reddit without an adblocker in place, I am sure this would have upset me...

old.reddit plus ublock was the only way for me.