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THIS.
This app isn’t the first of its kind. I recall Nokia’s S60 had a project chat app that ran locally on the end users phone where you could host your own site and comments and chats. If you disabled the server gone was the site. It was amazing. Nokia kept it in beta.
It might, I won't deny that... but I try my best to thwart the efforts of advertisters to do so. The only one that I can say manageed to get a profile of me close to my actual interests so far was Instagram, after which I deleted my account (no loss there.
Leftist heaven - Reddit. Hope they clean their act soon. I love Reddit minus the leftist and political groups.
It isn't that one group or groups outnumber another - it's that every group is on there. Conservatives, Liberals, Republicans, Democrats, Vegans, Paleos, etc., etc., etc. And each one thinks the "other" group is at fault. Always. That's what Reddit has in spades.
Reddit is a sick place. Once someone posted a link to some group called Eye Bleach or something and I went to the link. The things I saw there are still traumatizing me. There are sick individuals who go on there and watch this psychopathic content. Id love to get a real statistic of what sort of people actually spend a lot of time on reddit.
its definitely more leftist than anything. Recently someone asked where to move in a city and I responded with good input but mentioned not ot move to a specific place because there are many homeless people living in the streets. I got downvoted for trying to give safe advice.
Somehow I was promoted a large group called White People Twitter. I went there and its millions of very leftist angry hateful people attacking everything non leftist. If you say anything non leftist, the moderator suspends or bans you for hate speech. What a crapshoot.
There are adblockers on iOS, and they work on Reddit. I use Brave on iOS and I don’t see any ads on Reddit (or here).
All these companies do scummy things like this and get away with it cus they don’t wanna live without their internet addiction. Look what happen with Reddit’s last controversy. Everyone gave in cus they didn’t wanna lose their favorite app / lose their Payless job as mods.
You have to enable DNS filtering to do system-wide ad-blacking:
https://adguard.com/kb/adguard-for-ios/solving-problems/system-wide-filtering/
They use IP tracking to know how many you have. Reddit has become a cesspool, no doubt.
Pihole works great for getting a lot of ads - including on iOS apps, Xbox dashboard, etc.
For Safari on iOS I have Adblock fast and Adblock plus.
Ok the Mac I use ungoogled-chromium and uBlock Origin.
as of yesterday I was able to opt out (I think) via https://www.reddit.com/personalization but I'm not sure if that's changed
Did they ask you to join the Lemon Party? A cool new political group that all the hip kids are talking about!
no but I did learn that peoples opinions are made up and they will spend their lives repeating the same talking points like some Ai NPC. I chose to stay away social media since it's pointless and often full of stupidity. I guess im on Macrumors but I just got new apple toys so want to learn about them.
If anyone suggest you visit a website with the word "Lemon Party" in it...probably best to not click on the link. And I agree social media is stupid. However, Reddit does have its uses...certain computer subreddits/etc on there are helpful.
Also, if you can't find what you're looking for in Google due to all the SEO spam that appears on page 1, append a "Reddit" at the end of your query and you might find the info you're looking for.