Privacy is important on Reddit, where users enjoy a fair degree of anonymity (you don’t need to give your name, email address or any other details to create an account). As the platform develops, that may change to an extent.
In March, the company began recording users’ clicks on links to external sites. It’s now completed rolling out the feature to everyone, along with an option to opt out from having your outbound clicks recorded.
Reddit said that it wanted to begin logging these clicks so it could better understand how much time it took users to vote on a post after visiting the associated outbound link and whether some posts receive votes without even being read.
