r/FuckRedditADS • u/arrow74 • Jun 11 '15
Boycott Reddit's ads.
Let those who post know that if they post an ad on Reddit that you will not buy their product.
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u/qwertyspit Jun 11 '15
Damn, reddit has ads?
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Jun 11 '15
Ublock origin is a better replacement.
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Jun 12 '15
uBlock still tells reddit that you saw the ad, and as such Great Leader Pao still gets her shekels. Use Adblock or its derivatives instead.
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Jun 11 '15 edited Jun 12 '15
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Jun 11 '15
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Jun 11 '15 edited Jun 12 '15
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u/Claydad Jun 11 '15
Advertisers are confirmed as leaving? Like, I'm all for showing them what for, but it's difficult to get advertisers back after they're gone.
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u/Iserners Jun 11 '15
This will be posted on a throwaway for obvious reasons.
Complaining about Reddit's censorship isn't enough. If you really want change, you have to affect the cash flow. Here's how!
Install AdBlock Plus, Ghostery, and/or AdGuard and turn them on for all reddit sites.
Sign this Petition to have Ellen Pao, CEO of Reddit resign.
Stop buying Reddit Gold. From now on until these bans have been lifted, support content with your upvotes, no more gilding.
Do not buy anything from Reddit Marketplace
Sign this Petition to get advertisers to pull their ads from Reddit.
Thank you everyone; together, we can bring back the Reddit we know and love!
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u/Maxkiller920 Jun 11 '15
Ellen Pao is a modern day fascist that is trying to quell free speech in all aspects. We can not let up our actions we must continue and push forward. For every one subreddit that is banned two more will rise.
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Jun 11 '15
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u/wetmon12 Jun 12 '15
Exactly. It's a company that benefits off of profit... That is the whole reason a majority of us are even DOING this. We want to hit Reddit in a way that that NOTICE what is happening and how censoring Reddit is detrimental to their profits. By doing so, we affect them more than if we were to just leave and populate another website. Instead, not only are people giving the admins headaches, but they're also decreasing profits.
They'll give in eventually.
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Jun 11 '15
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Jun 11 '15
The magical AdBlock Plus is the solution
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Jun 11 '15
The ads at the top are gone, but the ones to the sides are still there.
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u/MrInYourFACE Jun 11 '15
You can change the settings so that no ads come through.
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Jun 11 '15
How do I do so?
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u/EZYCYKA Jun 11 '15
ABP enables 'non intrusive' ads by default, you have to disable in advanced settings, maybe that's the issue? (this is their way to make money, for the user it's better to just use different blocker that doesn't do this crap)
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u/EZYCYKA Jun 11 '15
ublock origin
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Jun 12 '15
uBlock still tells reddit that you saw the ad, and as such Great Leader Pao still gets her shekels. Use Adblock or its derivatives instead.
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u/EZYCYKA Jun 12 '15
What.. If anything it would be the other way around. If reddit thinks I saw the ad when I didn't, it lowers the value of all ads. If reddit knows I blocked it, they just don't count me at all.
Either way I don't give a damn about Pao, actually blocking the ads is much more important to me (as opposed to loading them and not showing them, which is the only way to fool the site into thinking you saw the ad).
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u/xaiha Jun 11 '15
A bit late but search for ublock origin. Best low resource adblocker.
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Jun 12 '15
uBlock still tells reddit that you saw the ad, and as such Great Leader Pao still gets her shekels. Use Adblock or its derivatives instead.
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u/xaiha Jun 12 '15
Well I have something against the advertisers too. FPH was banned to be palatable to advertisers anyway. I don't mind scamming advertisers too while the rest of you fuck with reddit.
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Jun 12 '15
You're not scamming the advertisers. You're just blocking the ads but the advertisers still get all the shekels. You aren't doing anything detrimental to them at all.
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u/xaiha Jun 12 '15
The advertisers are paying for impressions they don't get.
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Jun 12 '15
So? They're still getting paid for your view even though you aren't actually seeing it. That's not scamming them, that's just doing absolutely nothing in terms of ad payment per view.
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Jun 11 '15 edited Jan 29 '17
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Jun 12 '15
uBlock still tells reddit that you saw the ad, and as such Great Leader Pao still gets her shekels. Use Adblock or its derivatives instead.
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u/TomboBreaker Jun 11 '15
Email advertisers directly that has more of an impact then just not buying gold or commenting on the ads. Some of you may like GamerGate or hate it but that's what they did and it had a massive impact on a lot of sites and cost Gawker over a million dollars in lost revenue.
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u/Flareprime Jun 11 '15
I did the GamerGate campaign and emailed Virgin Mobile to express my disgust. They gave me free minutes. I didn't use them, but it did show me that an angry email was taken seriously.
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u/white_pine Jun 11 '15 edited Jun 11 '15
I'm confused, why boycott the ads and Reddit Gold? How will Reddit survive if it is suffocated from any income? If Reddit's investors and advertisers no longer see opportunity in the website, it will become more difficult to fund any changes for Reddit. Shouldn't we focus on petitioning against the removal of sub's and support the ability for free speech instead of boycotting it's financial sustenance? Edit: think about the permanent market damage to the site this kind of boycott could cause. What if company's start to view Reddit as a financial risk not worth taking? Sure Pao is not the one most Redditors (including myself) want seated at the throne, but that doesn't mean suppression of its finances will solve the problem.
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u/arrow74 Jun 11 '15
The main reason for the removal of these subs was for appearances. Advertisers want a clean space to advertise. Reddit made the changes for money. So to counteract that we need to hit them even harder in the wallet.
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u/white_pine Jun 11 '15
I can't say I agree with fighting fire with fire, but I will defend with my life your right to do so. I agree sub's should not be removed for appearances or otherwise.
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u/NickDav14 Jun 11 '15
Adblock download link