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Reddit is fun now; start Tor, try to visit a soon-to-be-banned sub-reddit, enjoy Tor's tracking notifications not present on normal reddit sub-reddits. Looks li

• heinrich5991 7y ago
  I don't understand, can you elaborate? What are Tor's tracking notifications?
  • seieste 7y ago
    I think bitL is saying that reddit embeds some sort of tracking script in “soon-to-be-banned subreddits” that they don’t embed in normal subteddits, and that you can tell this from notifications within Tor
    • playpause 7y ago
      Still don't follow. Why track soon-to-be-banned subreddits differently?
      • seieste 7y ago
        I'm not sure. bitL deleted his/her earlier response saying we had to test it for ourselves
      • bitL 7y ago
        Don't ask me, it's just an observation. I don't think Reddit employs imbeciles so the usual "oops, a bug there!" is unlikely. But given it's pretty easy to track a visitor across multiple social networks in real time, including their real identity, it's good to be aware of it and even being a bit paranoid about one's privacy while on Reddit.
  • bitL 7y ago
    Just do what I said and observe Tor browser.
• Forbo 7y ago
  Have any examples so we can see for ourselves?
  • bitL 7y ago
    I'd noticed it first when they put r/watchpeopledie under a review, then later banned it. I have no crystal ball to know what are they going to ban next, but I am sure you can find some subreddits that are now quarantined. Maybe this list would help? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communiti... Soon one won't be able to train NLP models on certain archetypes of speech if they continue banning everything deviating from preferred topics of their advertising/corporate sponsors :-(