Reddit will likely continue increasing the amount of ads users see.
  • Kane@femboys.bizEnglish
    18·
    23 hours ago

    Ever since advertising became extremely intrusive, it’s been game over for them. I’d rather put effort into hiding the ads (Adblocker), switching browser if necessary (Chrome v3 bs) and switching platforms (Lemmy) then seeing them again.

    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      6·
      15 hours ago

      Ads have become bad enough I have decided to be actively malicious towards them with AdNauseam, which clicks them all in the background for me. Advertisers pay as if someone clicked on the advert. Every. Single. Advert.

      The only one that loses out is the advertiser. If anything the website profits from it.

      • Kane@femboys.bizEnglish
        1·
        15 hours ago

        Hmm, how would that work?

        I assume if an ad is just trying to track what websites you visit often, this would not work 100% of the time, as they would still get your IP if a request went towards the advertiser, or am I misunderstanding how it works.

        • Match!!@pawb.socialEnglish
          3·
          14 hours ago

          ads have lots and lots of additional tracking both through JavaScript and through redirect urls (especially if JavaScript is disabled), generally the advertiser (e.g. Starbucks) does not actually host their own ads and instead the ad platform (e.g. Google Ads) tells Starbucks that people have seen the ad on the publisher’s website (e.g. Washington Post) and charges them for it, then gives a cut to the publisher

          all the parties involved - the advertiser, the platform, and the publisher - all have a de facto hostile relationship towards each other so they all want to track the interactions and views themselves, and messing with the ad interactions is a great way to do it. the publisher wants to represent that they have lots of highly engaged viewers so that they can change more for their content; the advertiser doesn’t want to pay for bot interactions because it doesn’t help their brand. the platform wants to make money and not get sued

  • fuck_you_spez@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    22 hours ago

    Idc about ads as much as their duplicitous censoring, shadow banning and shadow deleting posts. You need to recheck your posts in a private tab periodically to see which ones have been censored to the outside world, as they try to dupe the users to believe its still up on their end. Scumbags. Its not a new thing either, but considering how heavy handed they’ve been, I suspect spez will be all too happy to devolve the platform further under this new ‘climate’ we’re all in. Never trust Reddit. I have faith in Lemmy to succeed it. Decentralized platforms are the only way forward for unimpeded free speech.

  • Libra00@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    1 day ago

    Yeah, but old browser extension has let me block all advertisers (and all of them are equally my most-hated) forever, so reddit is cordially invited to get fucked. And they can construe that as ‘encouraging violence’ all they like.

  • radau@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    14·
    1 day ago

    This would have only had a chance of working prior to adblockers becoming so rampant. They’re over a decade too late and now advertisers are just viewed as “the enemy”

    • elephantium@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

      I think lack of goodwill plays into this, too. A lot of smaller sites can get away with stuff like “OK guys, the servers aren’t free, so we need to run ads.” and then have people super thrilled with them if there’s an option to limit or disable ads for donors.

      On reddit, I think the attitude would basically be “get fucked, spez!”

  • myedition8@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    2 days ago

    What a stupid idea. I want to block advertisers forever, not just for a year lol. And I can actually do that by installing an ad blocker.

  • ragingdachshund@lemm.eeEnglish
    25·
    2 days ago

    I love that my first post is to say that I don’t give a solitary airborne fuck about Reddit and their ads because I’m here instead. I hope they enjoy the enshittification all the way down their throats.

  • gimmemahlulz@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    84·
    3 days ago

    The best reddit control to block ads is too not use Reddit lol. The second best is ublock origin. I’ve been using method two since like 2013 and have zero issues or regrets.