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Reddit will allow users to hide ads from their feeds from an advertiser account for “at least a year”; some users report seeing a daily limit for hiding ads. (old.reddit.com)

submitted 11 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) by Tea@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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redditors will now have the ability to ‘Hide’ an ad from their feed – and when you do, we’ll automatically hide future ads from that advertiser account for at least a year (you can re-hide the ad after that period of time).

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[–] Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca 3 points 48 minutes ago

Reddit is a bloated mess.

[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

AdGuard says I haven't seen ads on any websites for years.

[–] Squorlple@lemmy.world 61 points 10 hours ago

Huh, I’ve got all advertisers hidden forever on Lemmy

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 66 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Why are people still accepting this?

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I mean almost all major apps are magnitudes worse by allowing advertisements of blatant scams and don‘t even let you report it let alone hide it. Enshittification runs rampant.

[–] Zippygutterslug@lemmy.world 41 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Reddit has a lot of content and users, I had to switch to Lemmy after being IP banned from reddit (called too many nazis "nazis" I guess) but I really miss the news feed I had cultivated there.

[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 16 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I use the old.reddit.com/r/subreddit+subreddit1 bookmark approach to get a reddit feed without relying on reddit account for a subscription on desktop browser.

And on Android I use Stealth from F-Droid which is an app that lets you subscribe locally, save locally, and lets you have different profiles with different subscriptions. And it is account free with no way to log in.

Moving to primarily lurking is the route I've taken.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 hours ago

RSS works too. Just add .rss to the end of the old.reddit URL for the sub, e.g. old.reddit.com/subreddit1.rss

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

I use redreader to lurk.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago

Steal the content "for AI training"?

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 1 points 6 hours ago

I think they reached a point where their user base was predominantly mainstream, not tech-savvy enough to know the difference.

I mean, how else can any site survive on advertising when the ads are so obnoxious and it's so easy to block them? Either the site is great and the ads are non-intrusive enough that I'll make an exception in uBlock, or I'm never seeing the ads in the first place.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 22 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

This Reddit place is never gonna take off if they keep treating users this way

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 9 hours ago

The majority of their users are bots, which don't care how they are treated.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 9 hours ago

I used to love reporting ads for suicide watch on reddit...

They took that option away quick tho. I am sure the marketing parasite got his feels hurt.