Reddit CEO tells users 'we know your dark secrets' as he strikes fear into web surfers

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[–]Gaslov 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

He doesn't know mine because I'm banned.

[–]TheBlackSun 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Why did you join us in hell?

[–]Gaslov 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've been here for a couple of years. You joined me in hell.

[–]Solar-Flare 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

That's just a little bit creepy. But also like Google, they know everythig you're looking at, they know your email. No surprises really.

[–]westway9 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

He's sort of stating the obvious. Most social media sites collect user data and sell it to ad agencies. I wonder what privacy laws apply to reddit membership?

[–]SoCo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When they switched to the new website design (as opposed to the old.reddit.com), they were able to track everything you do. Heatmaps of your mouse, click tracking, and likely bleed-through info from other websites and browser tabs. They also use super cookies to track you around the web and with DuckDuckGo and Google's help, they get your every search query linked to the cookie.

Never use websites that absolutely require javascript or webworkers (like those that use cloudflare).

We need a browser that doesn't support any of this spying garbage.

Super cookies only work because browsers let them back door you.

[–]neolib 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

30 May 2016

[–]Drewski[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

archive.today mirror

[–]PsychoTranyRedditMod 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place."

Yeah, there plenty of things perfectly fine that people would rather keep private.

Also why you should just make a new account periodically if you participate on a site like reddit.

[–]WoodyWoodPecker 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Remember Aaron Swartz!

[–]dissidentrhetoric 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

one of my darkest secrets is that I hate reddit and its faggot mods

[–]twolanterns 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

your selling out of america is a matter of record CEO of Reddit .....

justice awaits