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by MattGaiser 1945 days ago
Did anyone even know this option existed?

Seems like they should have just quietly buried the option even deeper.
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vimacs2 1945 days ago
Why bother? They've all but taken over the forum and internet community space so now it's time to chase those margins so they can keep that fantasy of infinite growth alive in the hearts of their shareholders.
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edoceo 1945 days ago
I've seen and used the option (ie: I'd opted out).

Moving forward I'll only be consuming Reddit via API. Which also means, I'll be participating less (but it was already very little).

Id started my API client before this tho, cause their website is super crashy (oops! Something went wrong)

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fwn 1945 days ago
Reddits feature removal is probably evidence for people using the opt-out.

Why would they actively remove it AND go through such a communication debacle for no change in revenue and/or data collection?

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