Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy

• a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  you can be sure that reddit tracks you; often you cant even open it when using a vpn. they have an approximate location from your ip, possible movement data when their client is on your phone, and then they enrich their data with external datasets. those are then sold. reddit is a bit more private than facebook, but not as much as you believe.

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  • npdean@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I agree that they track and are shit at privacy. I specifically find it safer because only the company can track me and not the users.

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    • a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      you know that data is being sold to hundreds of third parties, right? I`m pretty sure that more people get access to that data than there are lemmy users. but you do you, mate

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      • npdean@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They will not harass me online. Lemmy users can and do.

        You are confusing privacy and security .

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    • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is a decent point. Ignore the inane downvotes you’re getting for simply expressing your opinion in a polite and good-faith manner.

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      • npdean@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, I am ignoring the downvotes for the most part. It is so amusing that people will disregard everything a person has to say because they have one opinion that they don’t like.

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