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If you wanna keep your bookmarks and the subreddits (communities) that you're subscribed to before deleting your account, I made a free tool to help you store and offload that data.
Indeed. It has always blown my mind how much people disclose on Reddit because they think they're anonymous just because they're behind a username.
With that said, it certainly requires more effort to try to dispel who you are if you scatter some interests, and, to your point, write differently across those accounts to maintain different personas—at least to most people.
Of course the entities with the resources to scrape, analyze, and dissect exactly who you are across multiple accounts are entities that should theoretically be outside of your threat model if you're using Reddit.
The first adversary in that scenario is Reddit itself. Of course they know who you are, even with your gibberish username. That's not even considering the fingerprinting and all the other tracking techniques that make us unique.
From the studies I've read, this seems to be the case across the entire school system, not just university. If anything, it might even affect K-12 even more, since, the younger we are, the more sleep we need.
Nevertheless, I had my most challenging class 8am my freshman year of college and yeah, can confirm—it was horrific.
In retrospect, maybe it didn't help that I was out partying til 3am every day too, but that's a different story... (Jp, I was actually very diligent about it, but still couldn't crack the formula. It was simply too early.)
That would make sense tbh. I might have to do it manually then. How many comments did you have on your account? I wanna gauge approximately how long it'd take for me to go through mine.
The other thing that concerns me is that I deleted my accounts, yet they still showed up (didn't display as "deleted user"), and I was able to log into them.
One more thing: I recently came across this fork of PDS, which is slightly modified and supposedly works (though I've yet to try it):
https://lemmy.ml/comment/3831970
And it's not just about getting hypertargeted ads. It comes down to behavior manipulation. Price and coverage discrimination. The ad engine is just the tip of an iceberg not even the people who created the algorithms can understand anymore.
Nevertheless, use/donate/contribute to/share uBlock Origin. The internet is legit unusable without it at this point.
Looks like another migration wave may be underway... 🤞🌊
If you're interested in keeping your bookmarks and the subreddits (communities) you're subscribed to before deleting your account(s), I made a free tool to help you store and offload that data.
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My fault. I just edited the post and put the link right at the first instance of the product name.
I gotta link to the broader product page because every click generates a unique checkout link. So I can't provide the direct link to the checkout. (Don't worry, it's completely free. The checkout page simply exists as the delivery method.)
Also working on a standalone website. Ideally that's what I'd link to, but the website's not finished yet.
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It's called Reddit Account Manager, and it's 100% free.
You can also use it to manage your Lemmy account(s), of course.