38 upvotes, 3 direct replies (showing 3)
View submission: Reddit will soon start logging which outbound links a user clicks on
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 09/03/2016 at 04:49 UTC
10 upvotes, 1 direct replies
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Comment by returnbuyer at 09/03/2016 at 01:24 UTC
11 upvotes, 1 direct replies
When a link is clicked, you go to a redirect page, the redirect page records the data instantly and you're sent to the link. It's not really noticeable.
Comment by [deleted] at 09/03/2016 at 07:31 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Google does the same thing, it's not that hard.
The thing is, it's also not so hard to circumvent it using simple client side Javascript.