The only stat that matters
The only stat that matters
They must measure where do you go from after reddit, they must measure too that I use reddit less and less.
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you’re counting as a monthly active user for reddit even if you have a referrer set, thus helping perpetuate their crap. just don’t go there
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How do they know that you're going between them? Are you clicking on lemmy links in reddit?
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cookies?
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No, they can't access those cookies. What they can measure is that you're clicking Lemmy links on Reddit, or that you're navigating to Lemmy from Reddit using the
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Why yes, thank you
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cookies. (unless you're using Firefox) cookies from one website work on all website. this also means that Facebook, once you've accepted their cookies, sees what you're doing on every website
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Does lemmy have reddit cookies? That doesn't sound right...
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Tell me you don't know how cookies and user tracking work without telling me.
This is blatantly false. Facebook-cookies can only be used to track you on websites that sent requests to Facebook (for example by displaying a share-code). Without making some kind of request to Facebook servers, cookies are simply little text snippets doing nothing.
The problem is that so many websites have in one way or another introduced code-snippets from Facebook or Google or Instagram or Youtube. Those snippets then fire requests to their servers and boom, that's when your cookies can be used to identify you.
But Lemmy does not include any code snippets from Meta or Alphabet, so the only way to track you going here is through referrer when clicking on links.
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Who they is?
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You can use alternative frontends, one way is via LibRedirect browser extension. That helps a lot, you'll see cached copies instead so "they" don't get to know you're there.
Unfortunately, many such alt frontends instances stop working from time to time (e.g. Individuos vs YouTube)
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If reddit can get 100 Russian bots to "interact" with ads and claim they're people they don't care if 1 you is there. They're about quantity not quality. Also kickbacks.