Our time has come
I would encourage you to experiment with it to see what happens when you set up a burner account with a throway email and then start making comments that contain unique keywords. I did that a couple years ago and it was pretty obvious right away. They may have tightened up their policies since that point, but for sure you should experiment.
Also, there is this site, commonsensemedia.org, that AFAIK tell is kinda like a consumer reports type service. They’ve evaluated reddit. https://privacy.commonsense.org/evaluation/Reddit they say the following:
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Personal information is shared for third-party marketing.
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Personalised advertising is displayed.
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Data are collected by third-parties for their own purposes.
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User’s information is used to track and target advertisements on other third-party websites or services.
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Users can opt out of contextual, or personalised advertising.
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Users can opt out or unsubscribe from marketing communications.
I really couldn’t say what the research or evaluation protocol is that they are using, but the above page was updated/created in 2022. Hope this helps.
Yeah I’m really curious about how are they doing this report. I mean no doubt they harvest their data for god knows what ends, but they’re also seemingly running their own analytics software, at least on the webpage, they don’t have scripts for google tag, or facebook, firebase, datadog, new relic, none of that shit that is typically used to target you. My guess is that all their tracking is mostly done on the app, much harder to detect there without sniffing packages, so figures they would want to flat out block third party apps.
