Someone posted this over on Reddit right when it happened and I apparently saved it. I’m cleaning out my bookmarks and came across it. I hought you’d like to see why it’s good news that we found Lemmy.
Edit: I took a screenshot in case it gets deleted.
So fucking brazenly perverse.
The window of success for trusting reddit for product recommendations was just destroyed. What fucking idiots. They can’t seek out clients instead of posting to the world that they try to manipulate their users?
They are trying to point to subs dedicated to making smart purchases as an opportunity to advertise for whoever pays? Good fucking luck. They are going to crash their whole model into the ground and they don’t care. This is an IPO play to get rich and RUIN the site.
The priority of advertisers experience, over user experience, should say it all
Edit: I took a screenshot in case it gets deleted.
Can you TLDR it cause i don’t want to change my DNS rules to allow reddit for this.
TL;DR enshittification. Lots of targeted ads and corporate newspeak.
Thx.
Fuck reddit.
TLDR; remember how you liked putting site:reddit.com at the end of searches for specific product recommendations because it seemed like the last place left on the internet where you can get recommendations which weren’t blatant ads? Well fuck you, we gonna use the question context when choosing ads.
Example: Looking for headphone recs and go to a reddit post? You’re gonna see a headphone ad.
Oh, I assume the majority of us here use ad blockers. This seems like something that won’t effect us
And, if a non adblock user sees these ads, that’s on them. Ad blockers have never been easier to get running
Except they’ll make them normal reddit posts through bots.
Nah, i never did that, when i want to know a product i buy it and if its shit i send it back.
But sound idiotic.
So I am not the only one? :)
I don’t see the alarm. Key word targeting is used in other digital print forms. Doing ad targeting based on the content of the page is not a bad way to balance the need to increase value of the ad space you sell, while also avoiding the need to target a user specifically based on tracking. It’s no secret reddit makes money selling ads.
They’re purchasing the power to get into the conversation and don’t you feel used? Why are you here if you didn’t mind what Reddit did?
I’m here because they killed third party apps and api’s. But the thing is Reddit philosophically has been a for profit company. They make money on ads. In terms of the possible ways to advertise, this isn’t crazy invasive.
Lemmy and the fediverse are not inherently a for profit. So yes, the advertising doesn’t really apply as much.
I just expect the for profit services I use to behave like for profits. And the not for profit services I use to behave like not for profits.
I guess you don’t mind talking to bots and advertising scripts then, I find that strange but you do you.
So the one remaining way to search the internet that would give me the results I needed is disappearing? Time to head back to the library I guess
I mean that was possible before but on a whole new level. It’s actually in Reddits interest to get rid of more sceptical mods who stick tightly to rules, because they’d delete an obvious ads thread.
I’m pretty sure this ties in with the stuff they were promoting at the Cannes Lions conference back when everything kicked off.
I love it! Having my decision to leave reddit justified again, and so quickly, gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside.
