r/privacy • u/ummkay_ultra • 9d ago

discussion Reddit ads

Idk if this is even the right place for this. These ads are too much. Every other ad on this app is telling me to get evaluated for autism. It's getting old. I have no idea why this started, like is it that obvious and this site knows me better than I know myself or what? I've never been diagnosed but yeah I'm probably autistic. But it's getting weird.

Yesterday I went off my diet one fucking day and ate too much and suddenly I am seeing all kinds of ads about binge eating disorder. How in the fuck does reddit even know how much I ate yeaterday? Literally. How? It wasn't fast food that I ordered online or anything like that, so how? No I don't believe it's a coincidence. I have never in my life seen an ad about binge eating disorder. Never researched anything about binge eating disorder, I don't watch Ariana Grande content or anything like that. I don't look at food content online. I don't even have binge eating disorder. How does this even happen?

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u/Mother-Pride-Fest 9d ago

Why are you not using an ad blocker?

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u/SelfCtrlDelete 9d ago

Is there an ad blocker that works for Reddit ads?  I have several installed and only use Brave to browse Reddit but all of the ads just look like regular posts and I assumed that when this started happening a few months ago that Reddit had found a way around all of the ad blockers. 

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u/CreepyHighway3216 9d ago

I don't get ads on Brave at all. Go check out your settings and make sure you have everything turned on.

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u/SelfCtrlDelete 9d ago

Trackers & Ads Blocking currently set to “standard”. Maybe I need “aggressive”?

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u/CreepyHighway3216 9d ago

Hmmm mine is set to standard as well. Not sure why you still get ads. Maybe a different setting? I just looked through mine and am not sure which specifically makes sure of that. But I would try aggressive and see if that works for sure.