Steve Huffman, Reddit’s CEO, said that using biometrics is the “most lightweight way” to verify that it’s a human.
Stop using Reddit and delete all of your content. You vote every day with your attention, data, & dollar
Getting to all of one’s content is the rub. You can’t delete more than a years’ worth of comments. Reddit locked all the older posts and threads down once the IPO dropped, so they could privatize it and sell it for AI training. Last October, I got permabanned after 14 years there, and could only delete my comments that went back as October 2024.
Weirdly enough, someone (or a bot doing some training?) randomly responded to an ancient (over 7 years ago) comment I made and it popped up in my Reddit mailbox… Shouldn’t be able to get replies as content that old is usually archived and static. But not this. Hmmm. I of course deleted it and worked my way though as many of the threads under that post to find any other comments I may have made, but I could not get to any other content that was as old.
I still maintain a few logins to swing through and check for any more of my content coming up… Going to get as much of it gone as I can. I’m patient.
it’s not a bot problem. Reddit NEEDS the bots in order to survive. the Problem is that for its advertisers it needs to verify that the ads being served are actually being seeing by humans. that’s it.
Honestly, at this point it’s probably the vast majority of their user base.
I agree.
In other words, they can’t distinguish bots vs humans for advertising revenue, so they’re going to sacrifice everyone’s anonymity and hope not enough people care.
Obligatory fuck spez
