If the market for initial public offerings recovers in the new year, one company that aims to go public early on is Reddit. An IPO will put the spotlight on the prospects for Reddit’s advertising business, which has fallen short of ambitious growth targetsoutlined by executives two years ago. ...
  • SuperSpruce@lemmy.zipEnglish
    90·
    6 months ago

    Remember, the reason I ditched Reddit wasn’t the ads per se, it was the constant data selling, and the official app just getting worse and worse with unwanted “features” pushed on everyone. They kept getting greedier and greedier so when they disabled 3rd party apps I ditched Reddit.

    • StarsWebWine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      It seems they also recently started requiring you to login if it notices you are on VPN. At least for me it’s being doing that recently. And it seems they use browser fingerprinting, which tracks with the data selling.

      • VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        Yep. I tried to lookup something on it yesterday and I had my VPN on. Wouldn’t let me onto the site unless I logged in, when I turned the VPN off it let me onto the site ok. So glad I don’t use it often. The only times I check Reddit is for info for Kodi add-ons and old stuff, in the case of yesterday it was about a TV.

    • Pengilly@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      I mainly lurked on the art and fanfic forums, and considered getting an account when I had the time/had created something worth sharing on there. But when I learned about the disabling of apps to improve accessibility…I started looking for alternatives.

      Plus, I don’t like the idea of the karma system on there. Supposedly, it reduces the number of trolls and low effort posts, but I’ve seen it cause people to post ragebait to karma farm on subreddits that reward you with upvotes for making up outrageous stories. I’ve also seen “debate” subreddits where people downvote people who make good points, but disagree with. Then those people leave, not wanting to be punished on other subreddits that require a high amount of karma to post, leading to “debate” subreddits that are laughably one-sided.

      • SuperSpruce@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        I actively participated in Reddit before the killing of the Third Party Apps, because I really liked the content and the platform was a superb experience on a third party app.