https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/16/reddit_promoted_posts/
As FTC starts asking questions about that mega-deal with Google to train AI
I am pretty much done with reddit and Google. My use of those two platforms have dropped to about 5% of my total online time.
Even then the snippets you can find in the replies are more usefull than most forums ever were.
I don't use Google, maybe 3 times a year to see if the search results are better. I don't use YouTube too much directly, instead using alternatives to watch YouTube content, like FreeTube. However I regret having an old and important Googlemail account...
Leaving Reddit was a bit easier, but I miss some of the communities, it was rich and single account to handle everything. Since the day I snapped my fingers and logged off, I stayed logged off.