How Reddit plans to make money through advertising

Re:How Reddit plans to make money through advertising by slg on Friday July 06, 2018 @03:48AM (#17469718)

I would never actually use the site like that. However defaults are important and that is the default view for a user who is not signed in. That design is so bad that I almost wonder if it is a dark pattern to get people to sign up/in just so they can save a preference to avoid that view.

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Re:How Reddit plans to make money through advertising by SamuelAdams on Friday July 06, 2018 @10:30AM (#17471639)

> defaults are important and that is the default view for a user who is not signed in.

This is a good point. I never have my browser save cookies / cache information between sessions. Now when I visit reddit I need to tick the "change view" box every single time?

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Re:How Reddit plans to make money through advertising by wingerlang on Friday July 06, 2018 @06:24AM (#17470268)

I agree that half the content being ads is pretty bad, but what makes the expanded view as a default so bad? I don't like it myself but e.g. 9gag is super popular and it uses this style.

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Re:How Reddit plans to make money through advertising by DennisP on Friday July 06, 2018 @08:41AM (#17470903)

I want to scan the headlines with my eyeballs, not the scroll bar.

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Re:How Reddit plans to make money through advertising by wingerlang on Saturday July 07, 2018 @05:55AM (#17477863)

I can't stand the expanded view, so I'm 100% on your side, just saying that the actual majority might not prefer it and consider it even bad.

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Re:How Reddit plans to make money through advertising by EpicEng on Friday July 06, 2018 @09:37PM (#17476352)

It contains almost no relevant information

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