All addiction advertising should be illegal… Imagine struggling with withdrawal and giving up, and then cigarettes appear, bam!
Or alcohol - addicts actually need that shit to get through the day. The offramp for these things needs planning and consistency and this is just reinforcing the impulses
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Sometimes merely purchasing things is an addiction, one that many members of my family have. Adtech feels like a weapon designed to exploit anxiety and dopamine pathways.
Welcome.
I’ve been here a year and it’s great. Prior to leaving Reddit, I was really disenfranchised with their community. Everyone on Reddit are insanely negative, pedantic fuck weasels. Subs were rife with bots that posted the same banal content, and turned into giant echo chambers. It was near impossible to have an opinion contrary to the popular one.
Lemmy is smaller, but our content is great and our communities are very friendly. You get to be you without much worry of some dickcheese jumping down your throat.
You’re gonna like it here
It was near impossible to have an opinion contrary to the popular one
You’re wrong, and you should feel dumb and embarrassed for having a wrong opinion! Come on everyone, dogpile him! /s
I alway wonder if people browse the main reddit site and not their own feed. Reddit is shit but that’s mostly just the look and feel.
Yeah, browsing my own curated subs on old.reddit with RES and uBlock Origin is nowhere near as bad as people are making reddit out to be. Don’t get me wrong, reddit IS shit, but my experience isn’t the kind of shit people say it is.
I always used to use a 3PA that had no ads or recommendations, just my own curated sub list, and I honestly loved that. There were definitely echo chambers but things worked well for me as long as I stayed conscious to that. Then when the APIpocalypse happened I browsed reddit on the web and in their official app for the first time in almost ten years and just noped right the fuck off.
At one point in my feed it went:
- Ad
- Suggested Subreddit
- Ad
- Suggested Post
- Post from subscribed feed
- Ad
- Suggested Post
Like, only 1/6 items were things I had actually asked to see. It was atrocious. Default reddit is absolutely cancer now, and I really struggle to empathise with people who are still using it vanilla without any extensions or domain changes.
I mean you’ve gone to great lengths to hide all the shit.
That doesn’t mean it’s not there.
The day they finally kill old.reddit is the day I give it up completely. Pretty much only go when looking for something specific even more anyway.
Hey addicts! Here’s some inspiration
My great grandfather started smoking when he was very young. One day he got a call from his wife’s doctor that she had asthma.
He quit smoking cold turkey half way through a cigarette and kept that half-empty pack of cigarettes with one half-smoked on his dresser for the rest of his life and never touched tobacco again.
You can stop drinking and smoking, do it!
I don’t recall ever seeing ads on reddit, and I know exactly why. On Mobile, RiF barely had ads, and desktop was all adblocked.
Though they were often the topic of crank posts, specifically the Christian ones around the atheism sub.
That’s because you used a third party app. Reddit got rid of those a year ago.
InfonityForReddit is still going strong and doesn’t have ads. You have option to help dev pay their fee or compile your own apk with your own key and use it for free. It doesn’t change fact that both service and community is mostly cancer…
