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Reddit Uses Grandma’s Boobs To Make Money
This is the time of year when everyone wants to head to Grandma’s house. The cookies, the dreidel spins, the eggnog, it’s a happy time. For Reddit, Grandma = cash! And specifically it’s Grandma’s boobs!
This has led some Reddit’ers to install ad-block and that means that Reddit’s foolishness is potentially costing me money. Thanks for the gift Reddit!
The two top stories on Reddit currently are (both with more points than I’ve ever seen on a Reddit story):
- Dear Reddit, we ALL HATE these "dealnews" ads! All of us. PLEASE get rid of them.
- Dear Reddit: Thank you! The grandma boobs finally drove me to install AdBlock Plus, and it is great!
Here is one of the ads in question (the ads promote dealnews):
It looks like this campaign is targeted to Reddit based on the sheer number of impressions I see as I browse the site. So turning it off shouldn’t be that difficult. That is if Reddit wants to.
Should the community have a voice in what ads are taken by a service/blog?
