Reddit now tracks your clicks

The front page of the internet, Reddit is known for its valuing of the users privacy. The site has no requirements for new users to give out any sort of personal information and treats privacy as paramount; that means there is no need for emails, names or any form of ID to sign up. Reddit remains 27th among the top 100 sites on the internet attracting a lot of traffic. Almost 53% of Reddit traffic is from the United States, a country which has in recent times had issues with privacy and large tech companies. The link aggregation site has however made certain changes to the way it collects data and this has raised a bit of concern among privacy enthusiasts and the likes.

Reddit now tracks users’ clicks on external links. Assuming the user clicked a link to an article, Reddit would now collect that data for storage and analytics. The pilot program actually started in March but now it seems the feature is rolling out to every user. Many concerns have been raised about the violation of privacy if Reddit continues to collect this data but then many others consider it a trivial issue as it does not mean much if the site decides to track your external links, something many other sites do. Reddit itself has explained that the feature was introduced to collect data on the number of people who click on a link before voting and other similar metrics. This is in no way meant to violate the privacy policy of the site. Users can easily opt out of this through their privacy settings.

Via: |TheNextWeb|

Source: |Reddit|

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