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Re:Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B by denim_chicken on Friday June 16, 2017 @10:15PM (#14573931)
They track us and then sell our data.
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Re:Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B by cJ0th on Saturday June 17, 2017 @03:52AM (#14574799)
ding!

Here is what Mr Huffman has to say on this topic:

https://youtu.be/6PCnZqrJE24?t=8m13s

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Re:Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B by SquareWheel on Saturday June 17, 2017 @07:59AM (#14575500)
This seems pretty obvious, doesn't it? Your interests are the subreddits that you're subscribed to. They don't need to do any "tracking" because that's just how the site works by default.

Steve's tone here is pretty clearly tongue-in-cheek.

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