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Reddit abandons user privacy - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I left a couple of months ago. Couldn't be happier.

The writing is on the wall. The leader thinks the Genius-with-hair-transplants is a superstar, despite destroying a globally recognised brand. Inspired by this, Spez is trying to get Reddit ready for an IPO. This means, maximise profits by any means.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

gentrification of reddit.
'you will all be replaced by yuppies who dont know what privacy is'

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

If you wanna keep your bookmarks and the subreddits (communities) that you're subscribed to before deleting your account, I made a free tool to help you store and offload that data.

It's called Reddit Account Manager, and it's 100% free.

You can also use it to manage your Lemmy account(s), of course.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Reddit's announcement, authored by Reddit's head of privacy, going by "snoo-tuh" on the platform (Reddit has refused to confirm the identity of admins representing Reddit on the site),

Irony

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

someone on the article's discussion outed the person because she used that title ("head of privacy of reddit") on linkedin

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

She got outed again today by the reporter of The Verge article.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I love how everybody is so busy about mining your behavior for ad tracking data and then like 2/3 of the ads I actually see are utterly irrelevant gut doctor / toenail fungus / 17 Most Embarrassing Topless Celebrity Moments crap.

(I think the reality is that they're mining that data to identify a small number of people susceptible to high-value scams - like getting addicted to an F2P mobile game and spending $1000s on it - and the rest of us just get generic infill)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

I love how everybody is so busy about mining your behavior for ad tracking data and then like 2/3 of the ads I actually see are utterly irrelevant gut doctor / toenail fungus / 17 Most Embarrassing Topless Celebrity Moments crap.

Have you had yourself checked out for toenail fungus bro? Might be a thing.