• GONADS125@lemmy.world
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    The only post visible between ads is one that’s been reposted thousands of times… This perfectly captures the steaming pile of shit that is the official app (and the reddit experience in general).

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      The official app is a horrible user experience, but the bigger issue is that most of the content is fake. Between commercial shills, political activists, social-media marketing groups hired to “increase engagement”, and various other bad actors, the site is no longer useful or differentiated. The only places that seem unaffected are smaller private subs.

      I don’t know how the fediverse will prevent the same thing happening. The bad actors are just going to follow the eyeballs. They don’t care which platform is used to host their actions. There was already an instance of a group of new kbin accounts being used to mass upvote topics to appear in the hot feed here.

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    Seriously, why the fuck has advertising become so incredibly insidious and pervasive in recent years? I can’t go anywhere on the internet and not see ads or a warning to turn off my ad blocker or message telling me to subscribe to view the content. Worse, I can’t even be out in public in the city without having another fucking ad shoved in my face. I was recently walking downtown at 1 am or so waiting on an uber and really enjoying the cool night air, not on my phone or anything, just enjoying the moment, and I saw an insanely bright billboard advertising something.

    I feel like ads are just starting to really wear on me. I’m sick of consuming and being told to consume and being manipulated in the death throes of capitalism.

    Edit:spelling

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      Once you get used to an ad-free Reddit experience, it’s truly jarring how many ads the official Reddit app has. Same with Youtube. I have Adblock for Youtube on my computer and when I use the Youtube app on my TV I’m astounded by the number of ads being greedily shoved down my face.

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        I really can’t do ads. I use Blokada on my android phone and that killed all the ads from reddit regardless of which app I used, but the actual reddit app was just terrible in and of itself. There were so many better choices.

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      To be fair, free content costs time and/or money to produce. But it would be nice to have more donation-funded websites like Wikipedia, Mastodon and Lemmy gain traction.

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        True, but modern advertisement is almost always intended to deceive. Shitty mobile game ads that don’t even show the actual game’s content, advertisements for complete scams to get rich quick, etc. It’s all some ploy to get people to go download some app so it can collect your data to sell to advertisers or effectively steal your money by misleading you.

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      If only more people used ad blockers. Browsers should download with ad blocker extensions automatically installed imo

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      I don’t think this is something new… Lots of webpages had tons of ads in the 90s and 2000’s.

      Yahoo 2002: Yahoo 2002

      Or this one from the wall street journal in 2000: WSJ 2000

      Compare those to today: Yahoo Today

      WSJ Today

      I don’t think it’s any worse today really.

  • AccidentalLemming@lemmy.world
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    There’s a special place in hell for gambling ads. I’m not saying gambling should be illegal, but these ads target people who are trying to rebuild their life after getting addicted to gambling.

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      The NHL is basically unavailable to those people. Everywhere you look is a betting ad, and the official channels and radio stations give you the betting lines for games constantly.

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    Most people don’t have time to fritter on new tech, alt clients, etc. Honestly they’re not stupid and I resent the implication–Reddit’s just predatory. If we want an alternative to flourish, we gotta stop treating it like its a “smart people club” and being elitist about it

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      People go with the default “name brand” unless they have reason to think otherwise.

      You search “Reddit” on the App Store, naturally most people are going to pick “Reddit” by “Reddit”. Not Apollo, or boost, or BaconReader, or RIF, or any other (absolutely amazing) third party app, unless they have some reason to think that it’s better than the official app. Which they don’t, unless someone told them otherwise, because they are conditioned to the cluttered ad-ridden garbage interface of new Reddit, and most people don’t need mod tools or accessibility features.

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        I’ve reclaimed many a PC for folks like you described. So clogged with bloatware, trackers, adware, etc., that the machines could hardly run. Just excruciatingly slow experiences for their owners. Most folks don’t know anything about machines or software. Microsoft’s dominance illustrates the point.

        Folks go ignorantly (no offense) where they’re told. They just don’t know better and get prayed upon as a result.

        Every one of them knows things I don’t. It’s just that computers are a black box to them.

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    Never used the app, never plan to, but I can’t even handle the main site now. Have (diagnosed) PTSD due to religious trauma, and those fucking unblockable “He Gets Us” ads are intolerable.

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      As a former user of Baconreader for 11 years, and old.reddit + RES for about the same, this was what did it for me.

      I refuse to be served hegetSus ads.

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        Yeah, it’s honestly quite upsetting. I’ve heard similar complaints from alcoholics who are trying to quit drinking being unable to block or hide ads for alcohol. Reddit’s approach to advertising is terrible as it is, but this sort of thing is just downright irresponsible and not ok at all.

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    I did. And now I’m here :D Got my half brain back

    And this is my first comment on Lemmy and I’m loving this place.

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      I felt visceral contempt when I saw that thread. It’s a rerun thread being answered with the wisdom of adults who are still using reddit. No fucking thanks.

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        Also it’s kind of crazy to me the amount of traffic it gets every. Single. Time. I know they have a bot issue, but do people just like that they know they have a popular opinion and just want to see rhe up votes or is it just one of those “watch the same movie 15 times for the comfort of it” type things. Either way I find it wild.

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          Everyone who didn’t get their word in last time is desperate to farm upvotes ‘make themselves visible’ this time instead.

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    The worst part to me is the people still on Reddit complaining about the blackout because “you can scroll past the ads”, which completely misses the point

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      Ive seen a post in programming dev instance that those posts we were seeign, shilling for reddit was proven to be astroturfed using LLM to generate the pro reddit reply

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    JFC. That’s like a 3/5th screen advertisement with enough room for 1 fucking post. Might as well only show ads at that point.

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      Rif is still working for me logged out. I’ve heard it doesn’t work logged in, but I haven’t tried it recently.

      I mostly used slide before and that doesn’t seem to work at all now.

      Reddit offline also seems to still work for me.

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        Reddit “shut down” API access by disabling the ability to authenticate users. Everything else on the API is still fully functional. Of course, without being logged in it’s a read only API.

        RIF is never going to pay $0.24 per 1,000 API requests. Which means Reddit isn’t going to allow those API requests to continue for long. They will shut it down even when you’re logged out.