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We will soon begin rolling out changes to Reddit’s User settings. It is getting a refresh that includes changes to ad personalization, privacy preferences, and location settings.
As part of these changes, we are retiring a setting that you have previously turned on that limited how we used your activity from the Reddit platform to personalize ads. We have replaced the setting with a new option to select categories of ads that you may not wish to see.
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These changes are rolling out starting today and you may see the changes over the next few days.
Users will be tracked with no opt out. Posts may be monetized, which will make content even worse No refund or any type of usable credit for users that spent hundreds on Reddit coins The entire vibe has done a 180° since all these new “positive changes” are rolled out.
A lot of people’s approach to social media is
login an absolute total of times equal to one, on an app, and never again, that session better last
do zero content curation, what comes is what you eat
mostly scroll past shit, don’t interact, don’t produce
maybe click on a navigation link once or twice per month
So of course they don’t know there’s porn. They’re basically only seeing their feed (which is a clone of /r/popular, so a bunch of clones of /r/funny and ragebait) and the default subs, which doesn’t have porn by default ever since reddit removed its ability to show up on default feeds.
I meant more around “reddit is known for having porn channels” and less “reddit pushes porn in your default feeds”.
You’re right though, the casual dead-minded scroller wouldn’t know about it.