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I cannot wait to see this Reddit IPO fail, it will be the fucking most glorious thing when fuck face spez has to face the music.
Don't worry, the rich always get golden parachutes.
The worst thing is when you open the sidebar. If you click too fast on a sidebar item it registers as a click on the first ad in your feed.
I report the ad as offensive every time this happens which is almost every time.
Why stay there? Make the shift permanent!
I used nails in the past and I never went around telling people how I keep hitting my thumb with the hammer 😭. 😂. I just learned to not put my thumb there and problem solved! So just take your thumb and bring it here! No ads here! I can't believe they finally did put ads there.
I am mostly on Lemmy now. There are still one or two niche communities still only on Reddit that I frequent.
Thankfully this list keeps shrinking as time goes on 🙂
I still Google stuff like "can I use bananas in kombucha reddit" unfortunately reddit is where the actual Internet population had a voice. No more. Lemmy works differently but I'm going to start using it as a search term and hopefully soon we'll be getting good results there too...or here I should say.
I haven’t been there in a long time but i remember ads being all over the damn place and they had a certain feel where i knew it wasn’t a regular post and if you looked closely it said promoted. So is this the same thing or are they straight up not even including the promoted tag anymore ?
Is this something that uBO can detect?
Pretty sure ads have to be identifiable as ads almost everywhere, against misinformation (because ads usually lie).
It's so annoying when your reading a comment and realize your reading an add god loved so wash feet add you are making me hate Jesus
But maybe if you keep reading you'll find out it was actually leading into telling you about the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.
If the ads allow me to comment and say "your product sucks" then I don't mind.
They delete those
There's probably even a 'sentiment' tracking system to automatically remove negative comments at this point.
The site has so many ad posts and shilling mods that this is basically no change at all
All those moderators spent all those years fighting bot spam, and now the admins are deliberately opening the floodgates for the IPO.
I wish I could say I was shocked, but this was 100% foreseeable given their behavior since the third party app fiasco.
Subverting the will and attention autonomy of the user is a premium feature now.