Today around 12:00pm EDT, a post was uploaded to r/whenthe by u/concussionmaker_91 about how despite their multiple privacy measures, Reddit was still able to ping their location and show them an ad about a business in close proximity to their house. Then, in less than 2 hours after the post when live, their year old account was permanently banned. Redditors in the comment section used a website called SnooSnoop to see if this account has done anything malicious in the past that may be grounds for a ban only to find nothing.

I don’t think this is a mere coincidence and some comments I read on the post may be there to dismiss the situation.

I’m currently working on archiving the post and comments in case Reddit decides to try and erase this entire situation from the web, I’ll attach the files when I do.

  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Or it’s just a bakery they’ve looked at online, and that has been packed into their advertiser profile.

    So might not have anything to do with location. Also, most VPNs are data brokers. Which is why Israel’s Kape Technologies has been buying them up.

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      16 hours ago

      True. Weird a supposed privacy conscious dude doesn’t have an arblock and/or a tracker blocker to minimize that risk.

      Ublock, Firefox, and Ghostery are friends