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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?

• zeveb 8y ago
  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?
  • jedberg 8y ago
    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.
  • rbobby 8y ago
    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.