I shouldn't be hearing of this through a different news site though. I received no email about this, nor a private message. It's not even in their announcement

I shouldn't be hearing of this through a different news site though. I received no email about this, nor a private message. It's not even in their announcements. This message is only in /r/changelog, and going backwards they first introduced this 4 months ago, had to roll back and have been rolling it out again with other options. This is not a nice way of introducing what is, to me, a fairly large privacy change.