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What if you use Reddit the way I do when posting anonymously: I post on throwaway accounts and delete the accounts every few weeks. The account names aren’t sav
by exelius 8y ago
What if you use Reddit the way I do when posting anonymously: I post on throwaway accounts and delete the accounts every few weeks. The account names aren’t saved in the posts, and the posts aren’t linked in any visible way.
I’m sure Reddit has code in the back end to track people, but afaik thanks to Reddit’s general lack of ads, there just aren’t a ton of DMPs, so there aren’t a lot of data points to correlate with.
- pacala 8y agoIP, browser signature, topic browsing patterns, linguistic mannerisms. Not too hard.
- TheForumTroll 8y agoI think GP meant anonymous to other users - not Reddit itself.
- AlexandrB 8y agoNot too hard for reddit, hard enough for the average user. This means that for the purposes of having a conversation with someone else, you're basically anonymous. It's the same level of anonymity that web forums had back in the day before all user-created content started ending up on Facebook and it's progeny.
- exelius 8y agoRight but I think their picture will be disjointed and incomplete. Something like 99% of all users are lurkers who never post a single comment.
- nightski 8y agoIf you are mostly a lurker that probably works great. But I have found that the most influential/upvoted posts tend to come from established accounts with higher karma.
- exelius 8y agoJust like Twitter; but most of those millions of eyeballs aren’t posting anything.
- Sohcahtoa82 8y agoThere are several sites out there that archive reddit threads. Someone could still find the account name to a comment. That said, using accounts with throwaway names will keep you pretty anonymous on its own.