Maybe ots time to make voat.co my default homepage instead of reddit.

I just dont trust reddit. Too many shady practices already and now this.

thinking about too ...

Never heard of it. Will check it out.

Seems like voat might not ultimately be too much different than reddit, unfortunately. Googled voat and almost the first thing that came up was this: https://voat.co/v/Niggers

wtf?

Hope they record the fact that I'll be bailing on those fuckers come Dec 29. Bunch of intrusive assholes.

It will share your personal information to third parties that "need access" to your information in order to "carry work out."

I think that is a big one, does it explain this further?

Here are the points, with some diluted:

• "Except as it relates to advertisers and our ad partners, we may share information with vendors, consultants, and other service providers who need access to such information to carry out work for us" (The lines are a bit blurred. Exactly what "carry out work" entails, I'm not sure.)
  • You signed up to something promotional and the promoter wants to see the results/interests/information
  • A legal/governmental request has been made
  • In an emergency such as the risk of bodily harm to someone
  • You go against a policy/user agreement
  • Reddit personnel or those related to Reddit such as its partners/affiliates/etc want to see your information (and can)
  • A consensual sharing of your information (I'm assuming through apps or another service)

Edit: Google is one of their partners. I'm not sure who else is but if Google has your information, Google's partners have your information.

Thanks for that!

It has removed the statement that it will not share information with social media services such as Tumblr or Twitter. It now states that by using those services you enable "the sharing of certain information with your friends or the public."

It looks like Dec 31st is the last day I will ever be using reddit....

don't worry, this site is a piece of shit anyway. voat is much better

Thanks, decided to delete my account now. Farewell from /u/daneelr

Question: What are "user-agent string" ? Anyone know?

An HTTP header your Browser sends with every request. The user agent contains Browser, Operating System, Installed Plugins (e.g. Flash), and more. See here: http://whatsmyuseragent.com

How will this effect my redditing though? Sure they can track me and honestly I don't care I don't have anything to hide, if they make money from me then fine they have a good business going and I'm a fan of their product.

More power to you. But when it's free, you're the product.

But I'm ok with that

I don’t care I don't have anything to hide

You’re a complete idiot.

This is a very dangerous mindset. The argument is frequently raised in debates by pro-big brother hawks, and doing so is dangerous, cowardly, and dishonest. There are at least four good reasons to reject this argument, solidly and uncompromisingly.

The rules may change.

Once the invasive surveillance is in place to enforce rules with which you agree, the ruleset that is being enforced could change in ways with which you don’t agree at all. But then it is too late to protest the surveillance. For example, you may agree to cameras in every home to prevent domestic violence (“and domestic violence only”), but the next day a new political force in power could decide that Christianity will be illegal and they will use the existing home cameras to enforce their new rules. Any surveillance must be regarded in terms of how it can be abused by a power worse than today’s.

It’s not you who determine if you have something to fear.

You may consider yourself law-abidingly white as snow, but that won’t matter. What does matter is whether you set off the red flags in the mostly automated surveillance. Where bureaucrats look at your life in microscopic detail through a long paper tube to search for patterns. When you stop your car at the main prostitution street for two hours every Friday night, the Social Services Authority will draw certain conclusions from that data point and won’t care about the fact that you help your elderly grandmother–who lives there–with her weekly groceries. When you frequently stop at a certain bar on your way driving home from work, the Department of Driving Licenses will draw certain conclusions as to your eligibility for future driving licenses–regardless of the fact that you think the bar serves the world’s best reindeer meatballs and have never had a single beer there. People will stop thinking in terms of what is legal and start acting in self-censorship to avoid being red-flagged out of pure self-preservation. It doesn’t matter that somebody in the right might possibly and eventually be cleared–after having been investigated for six months, you will have lost custody of your children, your job, and possibly your home.

Laws must be broken for society to progress.

A society which can enforce all of its laws will stop dead in its tracks. The mindset of ‘rounding up criminals is good for society’ is a very dangerous one, for in hindsight it may turn out that the criminals were the ones in the moral right. Barely over 200 years ago, if you promoted republican ideals, you were criminal. It is an absolute necessity to be able to break unjust laws for society to progress and question its own values, in order to learn from mistakes and move on as a society.

Privacy is a basic human need.

Implying that only the dishonest people have need of any privacy ignores a basic property of the human psyche and sends a creepy message of strong discomfort. We have a fundamental need for privacy. I lock the door when I go to the mens’ room, despite the fact that nothing secret happens in there. I just want to keep that activity to myself, I have a fundamental need to do so, and any society must respect that fundamental need for privacy. In every society that doesn’t, citizens have responded with subterfuge and created their own private areas out of reach of the governmental surveillance–not because they are criminal, but because doing so is a fundamental human need.

So what do you think are the implications that a mass surveillance of the internet will have on my life in 5, 10, or even 50 years. How will updating Reddit policy or even surveillance effect my day to day? Would I not be able to go to work, the store, or my friends house without being stopped by the police? Doesn't Paris have a better surveillance system then the USA, and yet they were attacked within a few hours time?

Would I not be able to go to work, the store, or my friends house without being stopped by the police?

Yep. That’s the idea.

Doesn’t Paris have a better surveillance system then the USA, and yet they were attacked within a few hours time?

What does that have to do with anything?

And how will the police stop little ol me in a world filled with countless criminals.

If they couldn't even stop that with their great security system watching everything what makes you think they'll stop me from doing my business

And how will the police stop little ol me in a world filled with countless criminals.

What kind of idiotic question is this? You won’t have business to DO. They will own the business. You will do what they say or you will be imprisoned or shot immediately.

When do you think that will happen realistically

Measure the magnitude of the change in your freedoms over the last 15 years and extrapolate that out to the future. Problem solved.

I haven't noticed any differences I can still do the same things I did my daily routine hasn't changed

I haven’t noticed any differences

Pay more attention, then.

Thanks for that!