There is a lot more data stored in the header than your IP address such as where you are linking in from. Those two factors give Reddit the ability to track Voat users by IP address.
Not when there are companies that purchase this kind of tracking data from thousands of companies and pool it all together. Go ahead and keep diluting yourself though.
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Butterbread ago
Guilty of posting reddit link... OP is a faggot.
Stop sending reddit traffic, and allowing them to track people who click.
starrychloe ago
Cannot track images. No JavaScript is loaded. You don’t know how the web works.
elcob32 ago
I do, I am a programmer. Server-side tracking is definitely a thing and you are definitely a faggot.
ThisIsMyRealName ago
Tracking of what? IP? What else can they nab from an HTTP GET request?
elcob32 ago
There is a lot more data stored in the header than your IP address such as where you are linking in from. Those two factors give Reddit the ability to track Voat users by IP address.
ThisIsMyRealName ago
That's still anonymous data.
elcob32 ago
Not when there are companies that purchase this kind of tracking data from thousands of companies and pool it all together. Go ahead and keep diluting yourself though.
Butterbread ago
Deluding
ThisIsMyRealName ago
I'll dilute myself with any chemical I please, thank you very much.
elcob32 ago
I'm not a fan of such things but your free to do as you like (for a little while longer anyway).