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Re:Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur by ehnto on Thursday May 26, 2016 @07:26AM (#11777096)
Sure it is, you can track the site it was hosted on and follow the fingerprint around the web. The image content isn't the juicy bit.

If I can see you viewed an image referred from /r/woodwork I might offer you some woodworking tools and drive up the conversation rate of my advertisements.

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Re:Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur by conceit on Thursday May 26, 2016 @07:32PM (#11782592)
> The image content isn't the juicy bit

It is. The wealth of images alone, the sheer amount, from memes to vacation pics is worth so much now that image recognition is taking off.

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Re:Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur by ehnto on Friday May 27, 2016 @04:11AM (#11784591)
I was perhaps too dismissive, it is certainly full of information. But I mostly meant for the moment the information most likely to be gleaned will be from referral links.
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