Dear User,

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.

More details are available in our announcement and help center.

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.

  • noodlejetski
    52·
    1 year ago

    how do I get it without giving away my email address to some random website?

    • Amends1782@lemmy.ca
      2·
      1 year ago

      You should be using an email forwarding/alias service such as SimpleLogin, or apples proprietary hide my email service for example. You can have an infinite amount of alias emails that all forward to your main, and have 100% control over.

      The other option is older school, just make another account somewhere. You can also create automated rules to just forward all emails from their to your main too.

      • noodlejetski
        21·
        1 year ago

        sure, but people could also host their freeware in a way that doesn’t require me to do any of those.

          • noodlejetski
            2·
            1 year ago

            *sigh* because sometimes instead of telling someone “it sucks that in order to get that one piece of software from your website you make me create an account despite me never going to visit it again”, you can phrase it a bit more politely and hope that they, you know, figure out the intent behind the question rather than take it so incredibly literally.

        • HiramFromTheChi@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’d open source it if I could, but since Reddit Account Manager is built without code, I can’t host it on GitLab or GitHub.

    • HiramFromTheChi@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      You could use a service like SimpleLogin, Addy, Duck, or just a temporary fake email generator. I don’t mind if you give me a fake email address—you have a right to privacy.

      If it helps, my website’s hiram.io. I realize that’s still “random” in the grand scheme of things, but it should at least show you I’m a real person, and I build stuff to build a better web.