> That may be true, but I believe the information hackernews collects is still enough to be potentially personally identifiable. Imho there's still a massive d

> That may be true, but I believe the information hackernews collects is still enough to be potentially personally identifiable. Imho there's still a massive difference between "potentially personally identifiable" and running a whole business on identifying people and selling that information as Facebook or Google does. Reddit is a weird middle-ground: Afaik they don't make a business out of selling ad targeting profiles as Facebook or Google do. But due to Reddit's nature with subreddits for even the weirdest of interests, they do have massive potential for it. In the big picture, subreddits are not that different to Facebook groups surfacing preferences on all kinds of topics, thus analyzing a Reddit users post history [0] and subreddit preferences (u/leansbot) can also give quite a good profile about somebody. HN couldn't even compete with that if it tried, HN is pretty much just one big main forum where certain topics simply don't get discussed, as such users don't even have the opportunity to surface personal preferences about them, compromising their own privacy. [0] https://atomiks.github.io/reddit-user-analyser/ https://atomiks.github.io/reddit-user-analyser/