http://np.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/49jjb7/reddit_change_click_events_on_outbound_links/
created by Pastries on 08/03/2016 at 20:15 UTC
422 upvotes, 9 top-level comments (showing 9)
Comment by [deleted] at 09/03/2016 at 00:16 UTC
36 upvotes, 3 direct replies
1. How is this technically accomplished - via scripts, cookies?
2. Can this behavior be blocked? Could the tracking domain "out.reddit.com" simply be blocked?
3. Does this tracking only occur when a user is logged into a reddit account?
Comment by [deleted] at 08/03/2016 at 21:14 UTC*
106 upvotes, 1 direct replies
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Comment by [deleted] at 09/03/2016 at 04:37 UTC
50 upvotes, 4 direct replies
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Comment by JDGumby at 08/03/2016 at 20:40 UTC
48 upvotes, 2 direct replies
I guess it's time to get used to right-clicking links to copy them - and then probably edit them to get rid of the Reddit tracking crap, if they alter the URL like Google does for its top results. :/
Comment by RunRunDie at 09/03/2016 at 02:25 UTC
13 upvotes, 1 direct replies
You should be using changing your Reddit account periodically. Karma is nice but your continued anonymity is even better.
Comment by [deleted] at 09/03/2016 at 12:41 UTC
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
See if they just used `a[ping]` I'd have no problem with that since it's a real standard and importantly,can be disabled by the end user.
Comment by ZombieRonSwanson at 09/03/2016 at 06:44 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
would this still be logged if say you only open links by right clicking on them and opening them in either a new tab or incognito?
Comment by Alice_n_Bob at 09/03/2016 at 06:57 UTC*
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
There's a plugin for Firefox that breaks this tweak, I can't recall the name... Foxgloves or something. Let me dig it up
[EDIT] No not firegloves. That impedes fingerprint based tracking. What you want is Clean Links, plugin for FF and chrome
Comment by sathoro at 09/03/2016 at 04:16 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Their server logs already know which pages you are looking at, and the links that are available on those pages. So I don't think it is that much of a privacy concern to track exactly what link you actually click on. If you want that level of anonymity you should browse while not logged in and through a VPN or Tor because with or without this feature they could already guess to some extent whether you have clicked a link or not such as by you having voted on the submission, viewed the comments, etc.