Is that posting history or more than that? Because stuff that I’ve posted in a public forum is for public consumption, same as on here. If there’s underhanded tracking involved for things I do outside of Reddit that’s more concerning, but back when I signed up to Reddit it didn’t even need an email address, my Reddit account could have just been a fictional character for all Reddit knows.
I would assume IP address, browser fingerprint, and handle if you reuse it are all being tracked between sessions, even assuming no tracking cookies.
Obviously some of these are more trackable than others, but there’s the risk of re-establishing identity between sessions-- say if your user-agent resets when you close your browser, but you sign in to a site that keeps track of you and shares it.
I’m very lax about opsec places like here or Reddit, my username is enough for you to find my city without much effort, and almost certainly find me in person with significant effort, and is certainly an easy start for trying to find me elsewhere online. My main defense there is that my password is different across every site, but many people aren’t even that careful, and that’s like the barest level of careful
I understand that, and that’s why I block ad servers, but the subreddits I’m active on is also something I’ve shared publicly, albeit under a pseudonym, I kind of think of that as fair game for algorithms to analyse because it’s done in public. Good luck to them showing me ads because I’ve not seen an ad on the internet since the early 00s. Sneaky tracking of activity off of Reddit is another matter.
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Is that posting history or more than that? Because stuff that I’ve posted in a public forum is for public consumption, same as on here. If there’s underhanded tracking involved for things I do outside of Reddit that’s more concerning, but back when I signed up to Reddit it didn’t even need an email address, my Reddit account could have just been a fictional character for all Reddit knows.
I would assume IP address, browser fingerprint, and handle if you reuse it are all being tracked between sessions, even assuming no tracking cookies.
Obviously some of these are more trackable than others, but there’s the risk of re-establishing identity between sessions-- say if your user-agent resets when you close your browser, but you sign in to a site that keeps track of you and shares it.
I’m very lax about opsec places like here or Reddit, my username is enough for you to find my city without much effort, and almost certainly find me in person with significant effort, and is certainly an easy start for trying to find me elsewhere online. My main defense there is that my password is different across every site, but many people aren’t even that careful, and that’s like the barest level of careful
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I understand that, and that’s why I block ad servers, but the subreddits I’m active on is also something I’ve shared publicly, albeit under a pseudonym, I kind of think of that as fair game for algorithms to analyse because it’s done in public. Good luck to them showing me ads because I’ve not seen an ad on the internet since the early 00s. Sneaky tracking of activity off of Reddit is another matter.