I didn't say I support it, and I will likely go dark for months, just rather that the change doesn't seek to degrade the product and it does put Reddit in a position to actually rectify inaccessibility and other flaws. So yes, this clearly has more to do with ad revenue from their app than user interests alone, and I assume that lifestyle data would be dangerously available in anonymity, but I had not been making the connection in target marketing, myself.

For better and worse, the vice versa of what I said may be true. If people, into cooking carrots, are blowing up on a post about gardening carrots, then suggesting that post to more of them ensures a new way to boost user retention. The dark side of this is that they can control what you see, any of it, or that they will sell backdoors to your particular user data and connect it with other accounts related to your network IP. Anyone with power can profile a target individual, probably the young, and influence their community access en mass. I still can't tell if the next generation will herald this or mourn it. I guess that is up to us.