At this point, I'm not even going to bother trying to go on there anymore.
Reddit taught me to never trust a silicon valley, centralized, proprietary service on the internet with my data and/or content
this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2024
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Well you shouldn't trust a public, decentralized, open source personally hosted service either.
I don't really know who's hosting the Lemmy or other fediverse services I use and what access they have to the data that we post on there.
Basically, you shouldn't trust any online service with your data and your posts.
You can trust that the service will persist. The fediverse is practically speaking unkillable since no one group holds all the strings. The trade off is that any data you post is shared freely with all. At least it's clear from the start and no one is profiting off of it. Unlike Reddit, you know exactly what's going on as soon as you sign up.
I went the other route. I am very noisy online. I post and comment all over the place but I treat all of that as what it is, content I have given away freely and publicly. Now, when I need to do something privately, you are going to need serious mojo to be able to dig it out. Plus, who would assume that I do certain things privately when almost everything I do is out in the open.
You...you realize you just posted right?
Just because you shouldn't trust them doesn't mean you're not allowed to interact with them. It just means you need to be careful.
And I just discovered this some weeks ago. The "woah there, pardner!" is so cringeworthy.
To me it sounds like a racist, homophobic Southern US citizen that likes to tote their guns and "defend" their property through the Castle doctrine because freedom (fuck yeah!).
Actually the perfect encapsulation of the brainrot on reddit.
Workaround if you are using uBlock Origin:
reddit.com##+js(set-cookie-reload, reddit_session, 0)
old.reddit.com##+js(set-cookie-reload, reddit_session, 0)
Add this to your filters.
They really want to track you
VPNs don't prevent tracking, especially when you're logging into services.
They can help obfuscate your identity to varying degrees, but honestly this is a pretty odd decision. I'm guessing it has more to do with malicious activity, or some other type of activities that Reddit is trying to curtail, and they feel blocking VPN IP ranges will help them.
Many users don't log in. After the fall of the 3rd party apps, I only use the rdx webapp if I want to view reddit. I don't log in with an account at all anymore. So all of my data looks like some anon browsing from the same VPN server as hundreds of other anons. Yes they can analyze all of that traffic and individualize it, but that takes work. I'm glad to make them expend more effort, even if they get the same data in the end. Every step that makes it less cost effective for them is better, even if not perfect.