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Reddit CEO: We’re sticking with API change, despite subreddits going dark (www.pcmag.com)

submitted 1 year ago by artistan@lemmy.world to c/technology

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[–] Klanky@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I’m done having ads shoved in my face constantly. Corporations ruin everything and this was just the push I needed to remove one more attack vector from my life.

[–] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How hard if it to offer a nominally feed as free experience?

[–] artistan@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There seems to be a misconception by a lot of corporates that shoving ads down users throats will make the users want what is advertised.

Personally, I go out of my way to avoid anything that are shown to me intrusively.

[–] eric3a@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

The reality is that ads work. That's why they even exist and companies pay so much for them. The safest way to not be influenced by them is to not see them.

Block them, skip them, use ad free media

[–] minimar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Corporations haven't been paying millions for superbowl ads on a misconception. Ads work. Obviously.

[–] artistan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I think it just depends on how it is served. If it is something non-organic, like shoved in between every other post it would have a negative effect.

Superbowl ads work because people are willing to watch it. It's part of the game and made to entertain. But when's the last time you actually bought something advertised on the Superbowl ads?

I don't think there are a lot of people that enjoys an ad on a YouTube video one minute and fifteen seconds into the video you are trying to watch.