Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, existing users opted in

Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by kuschku on Thursday July 07, 2016 @03:10PM (#12051473)

Sites may only track users if they got explicit approval.

And transmitting that data into another country – as done with Google Analytics – is even more of a problem.

If a site does that, either I write a filter to prevent it from running any JS, or I’ll stop using it.

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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by soared on Thursday July 07, 2016 @03:36PM (#12051608)

Do you check the js on every site when you click a link?

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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by hobs on Thursday July 07, 2016 @03:41PM (#12051637)

Of course not, people in this camp generally block javascript by default (because of its constant security and privacy violating problems)

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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by kuschku on Thursday July 07, 2016 @05:26PM (#12052183)

Kinda. I allow JS to work locally on the site, but do not allow third-party JS, nor any access to third-party ressources from sites by default.

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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by soared on Thursday July 07, 2016 @06:14PM (#12052410)

I've never blocked js because it breaks so much functionality. That could be a useful compromise.

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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by kuschku on Friday July 08, 2016 @09:35AM (#12055347)

You also obviously have to allow the standard CDNs and such, but the result is that 90% of the web then "just works", without most of the tracking or problems.

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