1 year anniversary of my Reddit ban. I was directly targeted by one of the site's admins for mocking them over their censorship and rampant banning of harmless communities and users.
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[–]Vulptex 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun - 1 year ago (3 children)
That's my suspicion too. But I still question how it's even possible for any agency to know that information, unless they literally have a camera in my head.
[–]EternalSunset[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (2 children)
Your ISP, personal computer, smartphone, etc... All of your internet-connected devices are actively collecting enormous amounts of information about you at all times. They know what sites you visit, what you type into search engines, which emails and text messages you send and receive, who are your friends and relatives from your contact list, what are you whereabouts from the phone GPS, what photos you have store in your galery, etc... They can listen in to your calls and even tap into your phone's camera, PC webcam and microphones on a whim. This much is public knowledge and people like Snowden went through great pain to try and warn us about it.
And this isn't just the government doing it either, even private companies are in on the spying. There is a shocking experiment you can do yourself: While your phone is connected to the internet, leave it on a table and pretend that you are having a conversation with someone else on the room and mention that you want to buy a certain type of product or service, for example: "Oh man this old TV sucks, I'm going to buy a a new one with a big flat screen tomorrow.". You absolutely will be shown a targeted ad related to the product you mentioned within two days.
There is a very interesting channel on Youtube detailing all of the different ways in which our devices are being used to violate our privacy and what we can do to mitigate and avoid some of this spying. I strongly recommend you check it out if you are interested in the subject:
https://www.youtube.com/@robbraxmantech/videos
[–]Vulptex 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (1 child)
That makes sense. But even then, reddit should not be able to figure out who I am when I'm creating a brand new account on a totally different network on a device I've never used before. There's no information about me on there.
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[–]Vulptex 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun - (3 children)
[–]EternalSunset[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun - (2 children)
[–]Vulptex 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - (1 child)