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View submission: Update regarding user profile transparency
If you block someone from following you, they can easily go to your profile without being logged in and stalk you that way.
I get where you're coming from and I broadly agree--the follow feature sucks and there's no reason why it should be a thing on Reddit. You don't really see it on other forums that still exist or that predated Reddit because they mostly had the friends feature for that.
But I think the weird stalker-y aspect of following users has always been a thing here. I mean, before there was a follow feature, there was nothing preventing a weirdo from bookmarking your profile in their browser and checking up on what you'd been posting periodically.
Comment by [deleted] at 19/07/2019 at 12:55 UTC*
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