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Re:Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting by prophesi on Thursday July 09, 2020 @11:54AM (#23781574)
I'm really not sure if I can attribute Hanlon's razor to this. When you log in, that's by definition hitting the database, and should return your settings. Place that in a cookie/localstorage and it should still know your settings offline.
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Re:Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting by saati on Thursday July 09, 2020 @03:22PM (#23784015)
There is no single database at the scale reddit operates.
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Re:Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting by prophesi on Thursday July 09, 2020 @04:02PM (#23784454)
My bad, *a database.

I'm pretty sure I saw in an AMA that Reddit has an Accounts database (maybe split further by sharding) which I'd assume holds your settings as well.

But I rescind my point; it could very well be attributed to database infrastructure issues, whether that's hitting a shard with stale data, or splitting account settings to its own DB that it can't access when you log in.

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Re:Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting by weaksauce on Thursday July 09, 2020 @10:04PM (#23787422)
at this point they should have those setting at an equilibrium
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