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 djsumdog on Thursday July 07, 2016 @03:29PM (#12051581)

Their warrant canary is gone, they've banned tons of subs that were barely controversial, and they added a way to block people you don't like making it an echo chamber.

I'd say I want to hack on a federated Reddit clone, but looking at the state of federated social networking, I already feel it'd be dead in the water.

Having to opt-out of tracking feels like another nail in the coffin.

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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by sdegutis on Thursday July 07, 2016 @03:47PM (#12051666)

The world is a museum of echo chambers. You can't escape it, it's in our nature. People want confirmation bias.

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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by simonswords82 on Thursday July 07, 2016 @04:18PM (#12051834)

Look no further than Brexit and /r/unitedkingdom for a perfect example of this. You would not think that half the UK population voted to leave the EU based on the rhetoric in that sub. The pro-remain echo is deafening.

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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by keithpeter on Thursday July 07, 2016 @04:40PM (#12051932)

Sample of UK population that posts on Reddit may not be representative of UK electorate (and also about 37.5% of those in the UK electorate voted to leave the EU).

But I take your point about echo-chambers. That is one of the reasons I lurk and post here.

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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by clifanatic on Friday July 08, 2016 @03:26PM (#12058023)

Yeah, that's just the thing... there are lots of anti-reddits out there, they're just not very popular. If reddit stopped acting as an echo chamber, all of its users would just leave and find a different echo chamber.

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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by whamlastxmas on Thursday July 07, 2016 @08:00PM (#12052836)

Voat.co

It's full of racism and bigotry and it's not nearly as active as Reddit, but it's something.

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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by effingwewt on Friday July 08, 2016 @03:29AM (#12054055)

Ha! As if those things don't exist on reddit.

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Re:Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, ex... by whamlastxmas on Friday July 08, 2016 @11:19AM (#12056127)

It's more that it's the overwhelming number of users on Voat.co, and the annoying minority on reddit (and they typically stay to their own subreddits because they're usually downvoted everywhere else).

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