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[–] myedition8@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours 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.ee 11 points 4 hours 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.

[–] scotmartin@feddit.org 15 points 5 hours ago

Too little, too late. I'm on Lemmy now :)

[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 18 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think I've ever seen an ad on Reddit Thank baby jebus for ad blockers.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago

they do have it, just not excessive like most sites.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I don’t see any Reddit ads and won’t ever because its dead to me

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

my ublock lets me block all the advertisers for more than a year on reddit

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 4 hours ago

considering what reddit has become, im glad i had adblock as well.

[–] Nightwish76@feddit.uk 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Does Reddit have ads?

I use NextDNS and the (revanced) official Android app, so I haven't seen an ad on my phone in years.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 11 points 12 hours ago

"All of them? All of them. All of them is good."

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 76 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

... so they can learn what ads you're willing to tolerate.

[–] nectar45@lemmy.zip 15 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I am unironically starting to like twitter more than reddit

Abd I fucking hate twitter

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

So you're starting to hate reddit more than X. Understandable. I think the social media companies are lost, they had their time.

[–] stormyyy@feddit.nl 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Awkwardly_Frank@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

Xitter* (pronounced shitter)

[–] huquad@lemmy.ml 10 points 12 hours ago

I haven't seen reddit ads in at least two years

[–] gimmemahlulz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 69 points 17 hours 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.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago

Nobody cares.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 22 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Finally give the second most hated advertisers a chance for once!

The nerds lost the internet. It's a fucking Kmart now.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 7 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

The nerds lost the internet.

I mean, there wasn't a shift in control or anything. This is just part of the business plan.

Reddit, like many B2C online services, intentionally operated at a loss for years in order to grow.

  1. Get capital.

  2. Spend capital providing a service that is as appealing as possible, even if you have to lose money to do it. This builds your userbase. This is especially important with services that experience network effect, like social media, since the value of the network rises with the square of the number of users. This is the "growth phase" of the company.

  3. At some point, either capital becomes unavailable, too expensive (e.g. in the interest rate hikes after COVID-19), or you saturate available markets. At that point, you shift into the "monetization phrase" -- you have to generate a return using that userbase you built. Could be ads, charging for the service or some premium features, harvesting data, whatever. Because interest rates shot up after COVID-19, a lot of Internet service companies were forced to rapidly transition into their monetization phase at the same time. But point is, your concern isn't growing the service as much as it is making a return then, and it's virtually certain that in some way, the service will become less-desirable, since the service is shifting to having a priority on making a return above being desirable to draw new users. That transition from growth to monetization phase is what Cory Doctrow called "enshittification", though some people around here kind of misuse the term to refer to any change that they don't like.

Investors were not going to simply shovel money into Reddit forever with no return


they always did so expecting some kind of return, even if it took a long time to build to that return. I hoped that that changes when they moved into a monetization phase were changes that I could live with. In the end, they weren't


I wasn't willing to give up third party clients, if there was an alternative. But it's possible that they could have come up with some sort of monetization that I was okay with.

If you don't mean the transition from growth to monetization at Reddit, but the creation of Reddit at all...

The main predecessor to Reddit was, I suppose, Usenet. That was a federated system, and while it wasn't grown with that kind of business model, it wasn't free


but typically it was a service that was bundled into the bill when one got service from an ISP, along with email and sometimes a small amount of webhosting. Over time, ISPs that provided bundled Usenet service stopped providing it (since it increased their subscription fees and made their actual Internet service uncompetitive for people who didn't use Usenet service), and because so many people used it to pirate large binaries, the costs of running a full-feed Usenet server increased. Users today that use Usenet typically pay a subscription to some commercial service. You can still get Usenet service now, if that's what you want -- but you'll pay for it a la carte rather than having it bundled, and the last time I was trying to use it for actual discussion, it had real problems with spam.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago

they are going to have to force excessive ads at some point.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 6 points 14 hours ago

Monitization doesn't have to be so painful. You make it sound like it's a very natural evolution. There's some serious greed involved here. The shift from growth / investment doesn't have to progress into such a squeeze for users. Reddit isn't aiming to operate on margins. If the nerds were in charge the goal would be to cover development, costs, and upkeep while paying hard working people fair salaries. The goal is pure profit maximization now. The people behind these changes aren't hiding much. Spez isn't a well meaning genius trying to keep his coffee cup full while he codes. He's a corporate shill piece of shit. I don't buy these apologetics.

[–] Doburoku@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

Amazing comment! This is the content that made me fall in love with Reddit, message boards and reading other people's thoughts online.

No, the internet can never be taken from us.

[–] regrub@lemmy.world 28 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Still selling as much of your data as they can though, regardless of how many He Get Us ads you see

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Getting enough money from those sweet LLM training data deals.

[–] blinkfink182@lemm.ee 3 points 10 hours ago

This is the exact ad I thought of lol

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 23 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I’ve blocked all ads on reddit on my own terms, and have actually gone ahead and deleted my 15 year old account too 👍 They can fuck off

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

They deleted my account for me. Apparently being anti-Nazi is a bad thing there.

[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I got my previous account permabanned by saying Palestinians have a right to defend themselves by any means necessary. 15 years, over a million karma and several of my huge subs suddenly without a moderator. And now those subs are garbage.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago

when i got my 7 temp ban on worldnews for criticizing israel early in the war i just avoided the sub completely,(and yes i did end up switching to a old throwaway now got perma banned this year.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago

I made r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR what it is today. I took it from 150 subs in 2018 to over 1M subs by 2020. I was the one who initially implemented the "Banhammer bot".

Looking back, all that work I put into building it up meant absolutely nothing to reddit besides getting them more users for their eventual IPO. I put up with a lot of shit, including an attempted coup by r/fatpeoplehate refugees and a stint where one of the posts made it to r/all somehow... That was a fun night. Luckily I was already up with my newborn before shit hit the fan completely haha

[–] Lexam@lemmy.world 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Lemmy let's me not think about advertisers.

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[–] Charger8232@lemmy.ml 11 points 17 hours ago

Not so new browser controls let you block all advertisers forever

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 6 points 15 hours ago

I used my own content controls to block reddit for a year. Well, a bit longer so far.

[–] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

RedReader app works, theres no ads. Im just a passive user of Reddit nowdays, mainly seeing whats up in local city subs as far as news and events. Theres not very much of that on Lemmy yet. If I were to comment in the Lemmy community thats local to my hometown it would probably be like "Hey, are you so an so from the east end?" 😄

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago

our local city subs ahve been taken over by astroturfing goodie two shoes conservatives and tankies.

[–] lostoncalantha@lemmy.world 0 points 15 hours ago