You joke, but wouldn’t surprise me if Reddit tracks you to see if you visit Lemmy. Just like Facebook that tracks your every move on the internet, even if you’ve never visited the website or ever had an account.
Facebook can do that because they have a Facebook button on every damn page on the Internet. They can see that your IP loaded the button from each individual site and build a profile that way. As far as I know Facebook et al have no assets hosted on Lemmy instances. If that’s true, there’s nothing to track.
I was curious so I checked it out. My main account has “Very High” CQS score, and my oldest alt has a “Highest” CQS score. I’ve been using my main account until early June 2023, but my alts are way inactive. Didn’t bother checking with my other alts (one’s a porn alt and the other’s an alt I’ve never touched in a decade).
So, yeah! Seems like Huffman still sees my accounts as “valued citizens” of its kingdom. I do use Huffman’s site on a different container though, but I occasionally slip up.
You joke, but wouldn’t surprise me if Reddit tracks you to see if you visit Lemmy. Just like Facebook that tracks your every move on the internet, even if you’ve never visited the website or ever had an account.
Facebook can do that because they have a Facebook button on every damn page on the Internet. They can see that your IP loaded the button from each individual site and build a profile that way. As far as I know Facebook et al have no assets hosted on Lemmy instances. If that’s true, there’s nothing to track.
I was curious so I checked it out. My main account has “Very High” CQS score, and my oldest alt has a “Highest” CQS score. I’ve been using my main account until early June 2023, but my alts are way inactive. Didn’t bother checking with my other alts (one’s a porn alt and the other’s an alt I’ve never touched in a decade).
So, yeah! Seems like Huffman still sees my accounts as “valued citizens” of its kingdom. I do use Huffman’s site on a different container though, but I occasionally slip up.