Reddit monitors your DMs.

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[–]iDontShift 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

literally what monitoring means.

and yes they can easily read them.

what would prevent them? NOTHING

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

They would probably need to know the permalink.

Unless they have an external program I am an admin on this site and I've installed reddit myself, and to my knowledge there is no easy way to access PMs on either of them. You need to have the permalink. And I highly doubt they read through everything even if they did have a way, there's just too much.

[–]fatman 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

You really think a for-profit corporation running a closed source codebase with a fully manned crew of software engineers, data scientists, and infrastructure/monitoring teams can't figure out how to look at the plaintext bytes that they receive+store+send on behalf of a user?

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No, but it's not convenient enough for them to check it all.

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

I argue that it is convenient and easy to check them all. Fully automated at this point. Each message automatically goes through classification systems and if it stands out it gets flagged for manual review. Any contextual information from that message also gets saved into the persistent dataset they already have on you. Like giving you a hate score... I bet yours is over 9000!

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

it is possible to create such tools. and it wouldn't be hard.

Unless they have an external program

well there ya go.

multi-billion dollar corp can afford to write a bot that even I can dream up and probably code in an aftenoon