Do it in public

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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (8 children)

Thanks for the invitation.

I am surprised that there is an option to allow search engines to index my profile. Perhaps /u/d3rr could remove that option?

Anyone know if Reddit does this automatically?

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Yes, I believe reddit does automatically. Iirc, I remember going through reddit preferences and ticking a bunch of privacy boxes on/off I didn’t agree with. It only takes a few seconds to check.

I know reddit also takes data from your account automatically too unless you tick a box.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Interesting. So I've now bothered to look and indeed, Reddit offers the following controls. This reminds me that they're also giving a government-connected Chinese company (as part owner) this stuff:

[ ] make my votes public

[ ] allow my data to be used for research purposes

[x] don't allow search engines to index my user profile

[ ] allow reddit to log my outbound clicks for personalization

[ ] let others see my online status

This is one reason I did not renew my premium account years ago, as there reports that the special service also tracked all of my browing history

[–]Node 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

They'll still track you for free, even without paying the premium.

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

Nothing is free - the price: freedom.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Uncheck it if you don't like it

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

Can there be a guarantee that Saidit will not benefit financially from the sale of user data?

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

You'll have to ask SaidIt. In my opinion, your data isn't worth shit and it would be colossally dumb of the SaidIt owners/admins to do so.

This flag in the preferences doesn't mean shit, it just tells search engines to ignore the page. Lots of them don't care and do it anyway.