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.
The company said that it will still have opt-out controls in “select countries” without specifying which ones. It mentioned in a blog post that users won’t see more ads but they will see better-targeted ads following this change.
“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,” Reddit said.
The company is essentially removing the option to not track you based on whatever you do on Reddit.
Additionally, Reddit is consolidating two toggles on showing ads based on activity and information from partners into one toggle. So there is no way to separate those two settings now.
Reddit is seemingly removing toggles for getting post recommendations based on “general location” and activity on partner sites and apps. It’s not clear if this means those parameters will be used for post suggestions by default and there is no way to turn them off.
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.
The company noted that ad-limiting controls will possibly show you fewer ads from mentioned categories if the toggles are turned off, but won’t possibly filter out all ads. Reddit justified this by saying it uses manual tagging and machine learning to label ads, so there is a chance that it is not 100% accurate.
Reddit is also simplifying its location customization setting under a single menu, which will be easily accessible through settings on apps and on the web.
The social platform has made several changes to increase monetization. It infamously made changes to its data API terms that led to many third-party clients shutting down and subreddits protesting in retaliation. Last week, it rolled out a new creator rewards program to incentivize people to post more and better content on the platform. But it also introduced a change that made it easier for users to purchase Gold rewards.
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.”
Get a load of this guy. Pro corporate lol
“circlejerk” is the magic word. it’s funny how many threads are just meta discussion about the platform and why “the old ones” are trash and doomed to fail, like some ppl have to convince each other over and over again that it’s the others that miss out.
Yes not enough IQ for nuance, you either flame them or youre with them, thanks for proving my point
And yet…you’re still here…
Again no nuance, according to your IQ typing here means I only use lemmy AND as frequently as I used to be on reddit, which I still use and much more.
At least I have enough IQ to actually look at the usernames before responding.
I intended to reply to you, are you confused, bonehead?
Sure you did, that’s why you referred to things you said to the other guy…
“Another guy lacked nuance originally so it’s not possible I could also be lacking it and be called out for it, especially when I reply to a comment regarding the lack of it” Another display of lack of nuance from you, the nuance-ception running too deep now, I’m starting to feel bad for you now
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means…
Frankly, and you wont like this. but you are not welcome on lemmy if you are pro corporate.
This place exists in large part due to wanting to escape these people
I’ll assume you didnt read my comment before replying because I would be getting second hand cringe from the lack of reading comprehension