[tannhaeuser]

Reddit plays it's own games. While they dropped the aggressive "Use app" nagging, they now frequently and purposefully (?) break back-navigation (eg. from individual posts to the subreddit) with the all too common "Oh snap. Something went wrong" and cutesy picture excuse for a dysfunctional site.

[bitL]

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 like reddit is turning into one large honeypot.

[heinrich5991]

I don't understand, can you elaborate? What are Tor's tracking notifications?

[seieste]

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]

Still don't follow. Why track soon-to-be-banned subreddits differently?

[bitL]

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.

[seieste]

I'm not sure. bitL deleted his/her earlier response saying we had to test it for ourselves

[bitL]

Just do what I said and observe Tor browser.

[Forbo]

Have any examples so we can see for ourselves?

[bitL]

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_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 :-(