Removing the ability to opt-out of ad personalization based on your Reddit activity, except in select countries.
Reddit requires very little personal information, and we like it that way. Our advertisers instead rely on on-platform activity—what communities you join, leave, upvotes, downvotes, and other signals—to get an idea of what you might be interested in.
The vast majority of redditors will see no change to their ads on Reddit. For users who previously opted out of personalization based on Reddit activity, this change will not result in seeing more ads or sharing on-platform activity with advertisers. It does enable our models to better predict which ad may be most relevant to you.
edit: updated link to old.reddit.com
Why is that a problem? I like it here right now, I don’t want to change anything or hope for the best. Reddit was abusive to its users, Lemmy is a great refuge from that.
I like it here, but certain topics doesn’t have active channels here, much due to not having a big enough userbase. So we would certainly benefit from a bigger userbase