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Re:Lessons from Building and Scaling Reddit's Ad Serving Pla... by yourbandsucks on Monday September 10, 2018 @10:12AM (#17951914)
This is the QA process that yields us precocious-looking stock photo 'MIT grads' trying to sell me a wine subscription on every other pageload?
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Re:Lessons from Building and Scaling Reddit's Ad Serving Pla... by zeveb on Monday September 10, 2018 @10:50AM (#17952207)
reddit has ads? I hadn't noticed …

More-pertinently, I wonder how many of the developers of reddit's new ad system themselves have ad blockers installed. Do any of them actually see the results of their work?

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Re:Lessons from Building and Scaling Reddit's Ad Serving Pla... by rbobby on Monday September 10, 2018 @12:06PM (#17952744)
Reddit ads were what finally pushed me into install ublock origin about a year ago (redditor since 2007).

They had a misbehaving ad (downloaded a ton of "stuff" over and over and over). I reported it on one of the their support subreddits and was told "don't recognize the add urls. scan your system for a virus". It was a pretty good error report too (screen shots, console log, etc).

Installed ublock origin that day and haven't looked back.

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Re:Lessons from Building and Scaling Reddit's Ad Serving Pla... by jedberg on Monday September 10, 2018 @11:22AM (#17952444)
FWIW, when I worked at reddit, I never ran an ad blocker. In fact, I didn't run one for about five years after, until my CPU started spiking on just about every web page I visited.

But even then, I whitelisted reddit.

So my guess is yes, they see the output of their work.

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