156 upvotes, 2 direct replies (showing 2)
View submission: Update to user preferences
While there are safety and operational purposes for tracking outbound clicks, we leverage only aggregated data and have never personalized Reddit content based on this data, so we’re removing this setting to reduce confusion.
To clarify, does this mean that every click on an outbound link will now be required to go through out.reddit.com, with no ability to disable that any more?
Comment by ssd21345 at 26/02/2021 at 01:21 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
universal bypass time
Comment by kethryvis at 23/02/2021 at 21:53 UTC
-113 upvotes, 10 direct replies
We know there have been some creative workarounds, but clicks still go through the redirect. We just do not use outbound click details at the user level for content personalization, which is why this setting is being removed.