PSA: Reddit is Forcing Users to Accept Personalized Ads

fer0n@lemm.ee to Technology@beehaw.org – 424 points – PSA: Reddit is Forcing Users to Accept Personalized Ads
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TL;DR: Reddit is removing the option to opt out of ad personalization, targeting ads based on user activity. Some specific ad categories can still be limited, but there's no more opt-out option.

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IMHO it's cyclical.

  • Computers started out client server because of limited computing capacity
  • Then everybody got a PC and for a while, physical media were faster than downloads
  • Then we got oodles of bandwidth, so servers seemed practical again
  • Now servers are taking advantage of the trust we've placed in them
  • Next, we'll all enjoy a brief P2P revolution. Hooray!
  • After that, homomorphic encryption will make servers seem appealing again
  • Even farther into the future, the attacks against that encryption will no longer be tolerable

It will be decades more before humanity accepts the teachings of Richard Stallman.

Could you point me to some starting points or good reads by Richard Stallman? He got a solution to the cycle, then I'm down.