TL;DR: Reddit is removing the option to opt out of ad personalization, targeting ads based on user activity. Some specific ad categories can still be limited, but there’s no more opt-out option.
18 points
IMHO it’s cyclical.
- Computers started out client server because of limited computing capacity
- Then everybody got a PC and for a while, physical media were faster than downloads
- Then we got oodles of bandwidth, so servers seemed practical again
- Now servers are taking advantage of the trust we’ve placed in them
- Next, we’ll all enjoy a brief P2P revolution. Hooray!
- After that, homomorphic encryption will make servers seem appealing again
- Even farther into the future, the attacks against that encryption will no longer be tolerable
It will be decades more before humanity accepts the teachings of Richard Stallman.
7 points
Could you point me to some starting points or good reads by Richard Stallman? He got a solution to the cycle, then I’m down.
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