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Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform (techcrunch.com)

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[-] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 376 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Which is illegal in the EU and about to be illegal in Australia ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 146 points 9 months ago

The company said that it will still have opt-out controls in “select countries” without specifying which ones.

[-] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 86 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Maybe I'll "move to Europe" lol

fires up VPN

Or maybe I'll just stop visiting reddit entirely?

[-] CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org 66 points 9 months ago

The latter.

[-] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 14 points 9 months ago

That would probably be for the best.

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