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PSA: Reddit is Forcing Users to Accept Personalized Ads (www.macrumors.com)
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TL;DR: Reddit is removing the option to opt out of ad personalization, targeting ads based on user activity. Some specific ad categories can still be limited, but there's no more opt-out option.

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[-] explodicle@local106.com 16 points 1 year ago

IMHO it's cyclical.

  • Computers started out client server because of limited computing capacity
  • Then everybody got a PC and for a while, physical media were faster than downloads
  • Then we got oodles of bandwidth, so servers seemed practical again
  • Now servers are taking advantage of the trust we've placed in them
  • Next, we'll all enjoy a brief P2P revolution. Hooray!
  • After that, homomorphic encryption will make servers seem appealing again
  • Even farther into the future, the attacks against that encryption will no longer be tolerable

It will be decades more before humanity accepts the teachings of Richard Stallman.

[-] Misanthrope@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Could you point me to some starting points or good reads by Richard Stallman? He got a solution to the cycle, then I'm down.

[-] Audacity9961@feddit.ch 12 points 1 year ago

Free software, Free society is his collection of essays.

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