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A comment on Reddit’s disrespectful design. Parent comment

Re:Reddit’s disrespectful design by gruez on Saturday June 26, 2021 @09:52AM (#27641852)
What advantages does a user account have over anonymous session ids? User accounts survive users clearing cookies, but I doubt users clear their cookies often enough for that to be a problem.
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Re:Reddit’s disrespectful design by marcinzm on Saturday June 26, 2021 @09:58AM (#27641898)
Mobile browsers wipe cookies, users switch devices, multiple computers, etc.

Facebook has over a decade of data on its users, no session id will match that.

edit: Also knowing users emails will allows advertisers to match the reddit accounts to their own data stores on users.

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