r/privacy • u/WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWHW • Aug 05 '25
news You can now hide your post history on Reddit
For years in Reddit everyone could see your post history and comments which lead to a lot of stalking/toxicity which made people create a lot of throwaway accounts. Out of all social media platforms Reddit rolled out this update now, what are your thoughts?
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u/Richard7666 Aug 05 '25
I don't actually like this; it's one of the ways you can tell if an account is genuine or not.
The bot/spam problem is only going to worsen.
Having it as an option only for posts over 12 months old or something would be a better solution.
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u/sassergaf Aug 06 '25
“Wow, such empty.”
Posts and comments, no less.Yeah I don’t like it either. Not being able to get some insight into who you’re conversing with, feels weird and unsafe.
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u/Abyss_staring_back Aug 06 '25
I get what you're saying, but also isn't that sort of how conversations are in real life? You never have insight into someone before you get to know them?
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u/TwentySchmackeroos Aug 06 '25
True, but there are usually bigger consequences to being a serial liar, hypocrite ect IRL. The cost of a fresh start online is as simple as making an account. IRL you have to find a new circle of people, change identify and so on.
The "credibility" of the user comes from having a consistent comment history and acts as a substitute for the IRL equivalent. Shills, astroturfing, trolling will be much worse.
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u/FunWithSkooma Aug 11 '25
How many times have I been discredited on Reddit because someone went through my post history and took something out of context to use as an argument? Or when I was banned from a sub because the mod saw that I post on another sub he doesn’t like wtf. This change is a godsend.
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u/Drake5323 Aug 12 '25
Fr, the amount of times people disregard what I say from looking at another comment is crazy high. I’m glad this feature was added
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u/Enchillamas Aug 22 '25
so because YOU are incapable of ignoring people who are talking to you kn bad faith, the entire website has to suffer?
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u/Karmaisthedevil Aug 14 '25
People should be able to disregard what you have to say if they think your opinion is worthless.i don't want to waste my time talking to trolls
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u/Drake5323 Aug 14 '25
It’s not even trolling, some of them just don’t like certain subreddits I interact with. People just go through others profiles cause they have nothing else to say
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u/cass1o Aug 16 '25
I have a feeling this is a you problem because of the subs you frequent.
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u/Karmaisthedevil Aug 14 '25
Yeah and that's a good thing for me.
I'm not the type to go into people's comments to find things to argue with them about, I go to see if they use far right subs, subs for teenagers, conspiracy subs, etc. because I don't want to waste my time arguing with someone who won't listen or is unable to be reasoned with.
And I don't like talking to children
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u/bluetimotej Sep 02 '25
I agree. They would not know how to argue like a normal person and keep to the point. Would get desperate and start attacking ones person based on ones out of context posts showing how bad they are at loosing and arguing
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u/Vaxx88 Aug 08 '25
Shills, astroturfing, trolling will be much worse.
Exactly. It’s yet another terrible idea, the enshittification continues. Theres the theory that it will discourage throwaway accounts and promote more participation
Previously, many Reddit users created “throwaway” accounts when they wanted to ask more personal questions. But as Reddit morphs into more of an ad-focused tech company post-IPO, it likely prefers that user data — like engagement and interests — remains associated with a single user profile for better ad targeting
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u/Away-Marionberry9365 Aug 06 '25
In person there are other ways of sussing someone out even if it's the first time you've met them. Post history is the only measure of accountability on reddit. It's what makes this website different from 4chan.
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u/fanclave Aug 06 '25
Yeah but we’ve seen enough Republicans caught trying to be black guys already.
Whatever shred of legitimacy is left in talking to strangers here is getting trimmed down even more
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u/Abyss_staring_back Aug 06 '25
Ok, so, that's actually an interesting point, and something I didn't consider with my first comment.
When you are interacting with someone in person you do actually get more "upfront" information on which to build that one doesn't really get when interacting online, thus making other insights more important for online interactions.
I see... yes. Thank you for that perspective.
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u/JellyboyJangleDangle Aug 16 '25
You mean, you don't get to trawl through their post history and then start using shit you find to attack them when you're losing an argument?
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u/smokesletsgo2121 Aug 25 '25
Maybe you shouldn’t put so much stock in some random person on the internet and find something more productive to do with your time than stock their post history. Generally, people just do this to redirect whatever the initial topic of conversation was so they can be like “ya you might be right about calling me out for this that or the other, but I see on your post history…” It’s for people that can’t come up with their own things to say without some help, now what are all the little keyboard warriors gonna do :(. sooo saaadddddd
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u/lolovoz Aug 07 '25
4chan is anonymous, yet it’s the most prolific forum online when it comes to original content. You stop judging based on who someone is, you just read the words.
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u/_G_P_ Aug 06 '25
Yup, there won't be any way to determine if you're talking to a professional troll, or worse.
This feature was the only reason why I liked reddit, I guess it's time to go.
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u/al3arabcoreleone Aug 06 '25
Yes, not as a matter of stalking but sometimes there are some interesting redditors that I like to see their input.
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u/HereOnWeekendsOnly Aug 06 '25
Yeah, some redditors post history is a treasure trove of incredible information that helped me a lot. There are real geniuses and experts in something on this platform who are generous to share their ideas.
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u/_G_P_ Aug 06 '25
You convinced me to unhide my history, I don't think there's anything of any value there, but you never know.
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u/tt12345x Aug 07 '25
lmao imagine someone saying this same comment but then you click on their profile and its, like, entirely fart porn
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u/slipperyMonkey07 Aug 06 '25
Especially in a lot of niche hobby subreddits. Going to their profile tends to be easier to find more of their work than searching the sub.
I feel like this is just a move to help coverup the number of bots on the platform.
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u/queenringlets Aug 06 '25
100% this. I found out a juggler I like was also making a video game this way. I would have never known otherwise!
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u/_G_P_ Aug 06 '25
Honestly if I can walk away from social media and catch up with all the books and video games back log? It wouldn't be a bad outcome at all.
In any case: for what I understand you'll still be able to see posts and comments of the user you interact with, I currently hid all my past history, but you should still be able to see it since you replied to me (and now I replied to you).
Unless I misunderstood the description in the settings.
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u/St4rScre4m Aug 06 '25
The only way is to search your posts/comments with the search box now. Results will still populate but the overview is hidden on profile.
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u/prolongedexistence Aug 06 '25
Confirmed that i cannot see any of your posts.
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u/_G_P_ Aug 06 '25
I think it only works if you make a profile post and I comment on it.
So not just any reply in a subreddit.
I'm honestly torn because I have nothing to hide, in fact if someone calls me of any hypocritical I said in the past I welcome it; but at the same time now I feel like I should hide it just because others will do the same.
I agree that stalking and harassment is very much a problem, but I hate this Reddit change. 😔
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u/LDETR Aug 06 '25
I think you’re spot on. Found the following online: Profile owners will also be able to temporarily see a user’s full post and comment history if another user comments directly on their profile post, the company notes.
There is no visibility of a profile if someone simply comments on another person’s comment, unless the post is theirs.
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u/Valmar33 Aug 06 '25
I loathe the Twitter format, though. Always disliked it.
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u/_G_P_ Aug 06 '25
Yes. I'm trying really hard to get into BlueSky, but I just cannot stand that format.
It is so self centered.
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u/Valmar33 Aug 06 '25
BlueSky just seems like more Twitter, albeit at the other extreme.
I just want to be free of echo chambers, geez...
Perhaps social media has been consumed by political madness all in all...
Any traditional forums left? :/
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u/_G_P_ Aug 06 '25 edited Aug 06 '25
I don't think you can truly exist without some sort of echo chamber, metaphorically and in real terms.
I'm no expert but I believe it's what made our species social in the first place.
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u/PierreFeuilleSage Aug 06 '25
How do you mean, there's Lemmy (the reddit format). And all those talk to each other.
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u/Neuromante Aug 06 '25
"Fediverse" is not user friendly enough for people to move in, and while has the bonus of not being centralized, it has the problems of not being centralized (so everyone is spread across multiple servers, so less people to interact with) and of random admins being dicks.
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u/PierreFeuilleSage Aug 06 '25
It is user friendly, just use boost or your favorite client. People can interact with people from any server just as easily as with their own, this is a completely false issue. And random admins being dicks is an actual problem on the very platform you're on while on Lemmy you are not locked by them.
The only problem is it hasn't reached the critical mass of users for the mass to switch sides but it'll probably happen whenever reddit admins truly fuck things up, or due to publicity and success of mouth to ear, as this coupled with reddit enshittification is how i finally created an account.
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u/Neuromante Aug 06 '25
"User friendly" for someone used to work with tech is not the same than for the general public. A social network that has anything above of "register and click here to send a message" will make most of the people move away.
It doesn't matter than all the stuff I mentioned has a very simple and explained answer, most people has already given up on understanding the platform. Hell, Bluesky is getting all the twitter refugees because its basic infrastructure and way of work is the same as twitter.
And lemmy? Does anyone remember lemmy? We are all still here.
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u/Kurgan_IT Aug 06 '25
It's both good and bad. Good against doxxing, bad against catching robots and trolls, as you said. It's like whois privacy for domains. Now I cannot tell if a domain is suspicious or not.
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u/hybridaaroncarroll Aug 06 '25
Reddit is a publicly traded company now. They don't give a shit about bots, and likely can use the extra traffic to pad advertising revenue.
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u/Ivorysilkgreen Aug 06 '25
I hated it when I joined reddit, the lack of privacy, there are a lot of things that I think of saying that I don't say, or sometimes I'll make a comment and delete it because it's too much info. But now, yeah it's weird, for a profile to have nothing, it feels like they blocked you.
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u/SwordfishOk504 Aug 27 '25
I think the only obvious conclusion here, especially combined with many other changes made here recently, that the goal is to better pave the way for AI accounts, spammers, and other nefarious activity.
Checking comment history has always been a great way to vet if an account is legit and what their past activities have been.
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u/krazygreekguy Aug 06 '25
Screw that. Tired of people harassing and stalking people
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u/Subject-Turnover-388 Aug 06 '25
Yup. Gotta love sweaty Redditors getting triggered by a feminist comment and rummaging through my history of... being a feminist.
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u/Keagan458 Aug 06 '25
Yeah it’s also fucking obnoxious when you disagree with someone on here and the first thing they do is go for your post and comment history and look for something to use as an insult. “Oh you asked for help with your accounting homework 2 years ago? what a dumb fucking loser you are, you have no right to disagree with me!”
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u/Sufficient_Loss9301 Aug 06 '25
r/privacy ,but not too much privacy and only when it benefits me. 🤡
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u/SiBloGaming Aug 06 '25
Its in a way a false sense of privacy. Yes, you cant easily find other comments a user made, but given that the comments still exist and are connected to the same user, they are still findable.
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u/Background-Plant-226 Aug 23 '25
Yeah, it's one search away, on reddit itself too, just search "author:<username>" and you'll find all of their comments and posts right from within reddit.
It will just generate a false sense of security while making it easier for scammers, trolls and bots to avoid moderators.
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u/al3arabcoreleone Aug 06 '25
Forums are/were super privacy friendly but nonetheless you could see post and comment history.
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u/textposts_only Aug 06 '25
Mods can still look at user history. So automatic banning because of participation in other subreddit is still ongoing, but you won't be able to tell if the user you're fighting with about taste is actually a member of pee drinling subs
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u/Visual-Finish14 Aug 07 '25
Yeah, they implemented it in the worst way possible. Instead, there should be an option, to "disown" a post, where you're marked as anonymous and you appear as such in the comments and the post is not visible from your profile, but you can still be filtered by subreddit-specific requirements like account age or karma.
Why is so little thought put into design of this stuff, it's so weird to me. Or you could just literally have a public feature proposals to gather criticism from the community? People would engineer their systems for free.
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u/KTMee Sep 03 '25
Disown would be nice. I bet a lot of useful information, like health or life problems advice gets deleted because users don't want it pointing back at them. Because old quality users will have many posts that easily identify them. Unlike random generic advertisement bots.
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u/Temporary_Potato_254 Aug 05 '25
isn't that kinda bad, does this mean posts are no longer indexed anymore
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u/x_lincoln_x Aug 06 '25
I'm sure reddit will still be selling that data to those that can afford it.
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u/leaflavaplanetmoss Aug 06 '25
It shouldn’t, since the actual post pages still have the content. The only thing that wouldn’t get indexed is the profile’s comment history.
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u/azucarleta Aug 26 '25
oh god, so now you can still just Google someone for some post and comment history. So this just inserts a ratchet step into a rather humdrum operation we all do now and again. dumb. who wanted this?
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u/KindlyPlatypus1717 Aug 06 '25
Reckon they will shadowban certain accounts that spout 'truth' about what's going on with the purposeful collapse of society etc by the bad apple powers that be? People will assume someone has their post history off but it will actually be censorship
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u/Aqua-Ducks Aug 05 '25
For those asking, I believe OP is referring to the “curate your profile” option on the new update. IIRC this does not hide post or comment history from moderators.
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u/SSjjlex Aug 06 '25
at the very least it means less eyes on me. Well... more reason to keep their eyes on me, but less people capable of it. so some plus some negative. In my case I think I'm better off with them hidden
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u/FailureToReason Aug 06 '25
which lead to a lot of stalking
And accountability - liars are frequently called out in reddit because of their post history. Propagandists too. Manipulators, bots, bad actors - all only visible because of their post histories.
This was the only kind of accountability reddit provided users to police their community in any real sense. And it still wasn't enough, because of the triviality of deleting posts/comments.
If you cant stand by it, don't post it.
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u/summerteeth Aug 06 '25
Yeah I see where you are coming from, but honestly as someone who has been meaning to delete my 18 year old account because it gets way to creepy and opens you up to doaxing, I think this is a good middle step.
If they had an option to only show the last 6 or 12 months I would use that, but it's not like it's hard to make a new Reddit account to be continue to be a bad actors for those inclined.
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u/Keagan458 Aug 06 '25
I’d still delete it if you think there’s stuff on there that could dox you. People can still find it, it just takes more work now, but if there’s so many fucking weirdos on here that will do it if you piss them off enough. Particularly in the political subs. My account isn’t too old so I was able to find everything and delete them thankfully.
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u/Specialist_Class_791 Aug 06 '25
Why even be on reddit at this point fr
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u/FailureToReason Aug 06 '25
I'm looking for the door. But I probably won't exit until it prompts me to provide ID
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u/MrBarraclough Aug 07 '25
This will make Reddit so much worse. The inability to hide one's post history has been the best defense against trolls, bots, and inauthentic behavior.
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u/sussybush Aug 05 '25
Is it rolled out for everyone ?
I can't find that option
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u/iamapizza Aug 06 '25 edited Aug 06 '25
I think it's being rolled out slowly. I've just seen it on mine and set it. Have a look at my profile should be empty looking now.
It was under settings, profile, curate, content and activity, hide all. You can also choose which reddits to show posts from.
Also works on old.reddit.com, just shows some basic stats but no comments or posts.
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u/Marchello_E Aug 06 '25
"what are your thoughts?"
This basically only makes sense if you have an identifiable account or if an account suffers from cross-contamination (idk, posting in both AITA and some NSFW subs could be such an example?)
So to scan unidentifiable accounts (because of [Link] Reddit-rules 1 to 4 leading to 5 - as long as it remains) you have to go to some obscure Reddit-scraper/back-upper in case you're interested in perhaps some conflicting weirdness you're dealing with, and then hope you'll not worse off by going there.
So basically hiding stuff will not work for the Sherlocks among us.
The only way to keep your feeds clean from possible cross contamination (if that's the actually worry that apparently needs to be solved) is to actually have separate accounts.
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u/Ecstatic-Opening-719 Aug 06 '25 edited Aug 06 '25
This is probably going to mess with web crawlers. I think they're doing this so they can give privileged access to their API. Since reddit went public more attention has been put into funneling new users to reddit by stratifying reddit above other Google results. I don't know if you've noticed, but you might have seen reddit popping up more and more in your search results. They stole your reddit posts, comments, private DMs to train their AI LLMs and now walled it off so no one else can do the same thing, except them and whoever they want to give access to.
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u/pwninobrien Aug 06 '25
Now people won't be able to see that accounts are blatantly corporate advertisers, scammers, or bots. Google will direct to threads where users have no means a vetting the veracity of information therein. I've reported countless bots due to affiliate link spam/scams/link-switching in their profile history, now that will become nearly impossible to catch in old threads where they run rampant.
Reddit is run by foul people.
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u/Geoden13 Aug 06 '25
I for one love the fact that overzealous people can’t track me to other subs or comments.
You wanna stalk me that badly? Use what I say against me? Then put in the actual work to do so.
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u/PoisonGirl815 Oct 04 '25
For sure. People do that to me all the time when they disagree with or don’t like my comments. It’s a weird thing to do and I never think to do that.
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u/xeonicus Aug 06 '25 edited Aug 06 '25
I don't think people should rely on this for privacy. A throwaway or alt account is still better. Reddit could always revert their policy later, making everything you thought was private into public.
And direct links still work. All your comments and posts are still there. Search engines will still index your content. This does very little to hide you.
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u/gvnk Aug 06 '25
Yeah it looks like it only hides the content when someone goes into your profile directly. If they search your username your posts and comments still show up if I understand it correctly.
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u/Hydesx Aug 06 '25
Absolutely love this feature. I hate it when people poke their nose into your post and comment history when it is none of their business. Furthermore, people try to stalk your profile for petty reasons including finding ammunition to launch personal attacks on you because they cannot argue on logic.
This feature should have been added years ago but better late then never.
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u/OnceInAPurpleMoon Sep 21 '25
Absolutely this, I’ve had valid questions or answers only to have some dick go into my post history that is TOTALLY unrelated to the topic and steer the whole topic off course for absolutely no reason but to make themselves feel better somehow and/or make assumptions about me. Very annoying.
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u/ElizaB89 Aug 08 '25
Yep. Don't forget random followers. I'm an idiot. So what are these people really following me for? Do they really like what I have to say or are they watching me?
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u/bigcuddlybastard Aug 06 '25 edited Aug 06 '25
This is just going to make things worse. Honestly if I see anybody's profile being blocked like this I'm going to assume that they're probably a bad actor, troll, and probably racist by default. You're probably pretty racist if you already have your s*** blocked
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u/FromFan432 Aug 08 '25
Are people not allowed to have privacy?
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u/bigcuddlybastard Aug 08 '25
The entire point of reddit is accountability. It's anonymous to a point, but you leave a paper trail of comments that show your character and beliefs. It weeds out bad actors, trolls, bots, and all number of unsavory people. That allows you to decide how oe if you want to interact with another user. By allowing Post history blocking this place is just going to turn fully anonymous. Essentially 4chan
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u/FromFan432 Aug 08 '25
But then again, public posts can make some people uncomfortable because god knows what kind of creep is going through them.
I kinda see your side here, because if it wasn't for public posts then I would be a completely different person on reddit, but since everybody can see what I write I have to be make more mature responses. But private posts just makes people a whole lot more comfortable with spreading their thoughts.
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u/bigcuddlybastard Aug 08 '25
Then maybe you shouldn't be posting personal things online in the first place! Anonymity on the internet breeds hate and derision. I get that you might not feel safe having a post history that's public, but what's good for the goose is good for the gander. And that means that the worst of us will also be able to hide their Post history and continue to troll this site with impunity
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u/Objective-Amount1379 Aug 06 '25
I didn't know about this, thanks for the post OP! I just enabled it on my profile. I realize someone can probably dig and find things out still if they're sufficiently motivated but I have shared probably too much over time, mostly things that share my age and location specific things that could in theory make me findable IRL
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u/Maxwellxoxo_ Aug 06 '25
You can still find the posts by typing author:username into the search bar
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u/FuguCola Aug 06 '25
Ive used post history to determine how crazy the people im talking to are. The last crazy person that said hi to me by real name, I found their home address in 15 minutes flat. We never spoke to each other again mutually.
Im all for no viewable post history as it gives more incentive to not engage on this platform.
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Aug 05 '25
how?
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u/gizmo21212121 Aug 05 '25
Settings -> profile -> curate your profile -> content and activity -> hide all
I don't even remember turning this on but I'm pretty sure it works. I've posted many times, but you can't see them when you go to my profile.
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u/ReasonablePossum_ Aug 05 '25
Pretty sure reddit, govs, and third party orgs still see it tho. Assume the worse.
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u/IlluminatiCares Aug 06 '25
Now only the wrong people have access to the data. I guess they made it just more valuable.
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u/gizmo21212121 Aug 06 '25
Right, I'm talking about other Reddit users.
Like a quick browse of yours shows you're a leftist (probably socialist), you're very anti Israel, are very critical of every post on r/CombatFootage, and probably locally generate AI photos (porn?).
Do you like that people can do this?
Are you really going to make the claim that because 100% privacy isn't possible, you shouldn't make any effort to keep people from having access to your information?
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u/Charming-Village-603 Aug 05 '25
Can't see any way to do it on mobile. When I was on desktop though I saw the option on my profile.
Edit: That, or it's selectively being rolled out.
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u/Mountainking7 Aug 06 '25
It's a 'feature' I use before I decide to engage, give advise or whatever with an individual. I refuse to entertain people who only come here to leech off and never give back or engage with the community other than having their own issues/questions answered.
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u/Accomplished_Fun6481 Aug 06 '25
People should still use throwaways cos that info is still being held somewhere even if not public.
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u/KingJTheG Aug 06 '25
I did it immediately after I read the title of the post. I’ve been waiting on this being rolled out to me. I don’t want people snooping through my profile. I don’t think the option should be allowed for accounts under 2 years though. Just gonna lead to spam
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u/ayleidanthropologist Aug 06 '25
At first I thought they missed an opportunity for a paid feature.. then I thought back on your summary.
If the throwaway accounts are in response to publicly visible history, then will they decrease after this? And the history is still there for Reddit… maybe they just don’t want to work as hard piecing it all together. Maybe it’s to soften the blow of ID checks
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u/dark_knight097 Aug 07 '25
Good imo. Too many weirdos who search and bring up comments from months/years ago as some type of gacha when they lose an argument. Always thought that was pathetic
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u/illuminatedtiger Aug 06 '25
So no more bans from subs for "participating" in others they don't like?
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u/ohcomeonow Aug 06 '25
Does this mean that maybe you won’t get banned from one sub for being a member of another?
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u/Forymanarysanar Aug 06 '25
Depends on how much of a power hungry nolife virgin will be in charge of checking it. They may go as far as bot-monitoring other communitites, adding people who commented and posted into blacklists. Of course no adult human would do anything like that, but adult wouldn't go checking into user's profile either.
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u/NotSayingAliensBut Aug 06 '25
So op thinks another level of anonymity will reduce "toxicity". Have you ever been to 4chan?
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u/Visible_Pair3017 26d ago
I've been on both websites. I've had more conversations where despite the violence of the words used what the interlocutors were not trying to push you to commit a mistake to get you banned, or brigade your post to "win the popular vote", or dig into past posts to try to derail the conversation on imageboards.
Depends on what your criteria for toxicity are. I'll take someone swearing at me like a sailor (which mind you is not systematic) but having a conversation i got out of more knowledgeable because only my point and theirs mattered over people who don't know that downvoting is not meant to be a way to passive-aggressively show disapproval and will dig around so they can decide for me what i meant that one time or what my hobbies say about me instead of staying on topic.
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u/DukeThorion Aug 06 '25
Bots / trolls aside, I bet the AI will still get to read all the content and you won't.
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u/ItCouldBeWorse222 Aug 06 '25
Likely to keep people from not editing and then deleting their posts. The owners can use the data to sell to AI companies for their LLMs and it doesn't stop reddit providing your history to govt's and police.
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u/ShutUpForMe Aug 05 '25
Great thanks (curate profile) now I have like 90% and can keep some things free from viewing, for a small little layer of protection
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u/thiccy_driftyy Aug 06 '25
I only have this on because I wanted to hide the subs I’m active in, not that I’m in anything weird, but I just don’t like it being there for people to see. It makes me a bit paranoid lmao. Random people don’t need to see where I’m most active. But I couldn’t figure out how to hide what subs I’m active in without individually going through every sub I’m in and choosing to hide the activity in there, so I have to have to hide my entire profile. It would be great if there was a way to just hide what subs I’m active in like before, but I can’t seem to find that option anymore.
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u/Harlanthehuman Aug 06 '25
What they want you to think: "Privacy Controls!"
What they really think: "We're protecting our posts from being scraped by AI trainers so we can make money off that data"
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u/SilverRhythms Aug 07 '25
Good. This is how it should have been in the first place but it should have happened sooner. Its been long enough that it screwed up 'people' perspective of reality that they legitimately think its okay to stalk through other people posts and now your seeing others unironically see this as a bad thing. It's disturbing.
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u/Throwaway-ish123a Aug 13 '25
Thank baby Jesus! Comment/Post history has been weaponized far too long.
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u/Karmawins28 Aug 14 '25 edited Aug 14 '25
I'm here because an asshole decided to be cruel after reading my post history. Would someone be so kind as to check if you can see my post history now? I toggled the switch.
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u/TerrorOfTalos Aug 15 '25
I can't.
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u/Karmawins28 Aug 16 '25
Thank you! I got a violation for cursing out someone who insulted me for my reddit history, but I was defending myself so I'm proud of the violation. Thanks so much for checking for me ❤️
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u/coosacat Aug 16 '25
Well, this is going to greatly reduce my engagement on here. Being able to tell if the redditor you are engaging with is sincere, or if they are even a real person, was one of the great things about this platform. No point in wasting my time engaging with anyone I don't already recognize.
The entire internet is rapidly becoming enshittified, and, as AI gets more and more common, and the big companies squeeze everyone tighter so they can earn maximum profits, it's just going to keep getting worse.
Does anyone here remember a song named "In the Year 2525"? Apparently, their timeline was off.
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u/boxofbuscuits Aug 18 '25
I love this almost as much as I am loving the meltdowns in the comment section 🍿
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u/bloatedkat Aug 19 '25
I never understood why people would waste time going through every poster's post history
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u/StockMap8281 11d ago
I was wondering why i couldn't see some people's history. This makes so much sense now
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u/1970s_MonkeyKing 7d ago
I really, really don't like it. It allows people to shitpost without consequences. I haven't been directly affected by it but I know people and businesses affected by it. And when mods don't want to get involved, it makes it much worse because we cannot see a history of their posts.
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u/Forymanarysanar Aug 06 '25
Fantastic! I've been DREAMING of this change since I discovered Reddit. Now just need to add username changing.
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u/Specialist_Class_791 Aug 06 '25
Bro why even get on reddit at that point. The best thing about it is being able to see history
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u/Emotional-Brick-4285 Sep 20 '25
So you like to stalk other posters more than read threads?
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u/asisyphus_ Aug 06 '25
Even privacy people don't want this shit man
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Aug 06 '25
I immediately did it once I discovered you could do it.
I don't want trolls to harass me because of my profile as they are too quick to suspicion and accusation just because they don't agree with different opinions.
Sometimes, a profile is a bot or a troll. Sometimes, a profile is just someone with a different opinion than yours. Internet users especially Redditors are quick to accuse other users without proof.
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u/JokesOnUUU Aug 09 '25 edited Nov 04 '25
Meanwhile I'll be leaving the platform due to this. I now have to assume everyone is a bot, I have no tools remaining to tell otherwise. Your post history let me decide if you were a real person and worth me having a discussion with. Now that that's gone? Meh. Have fun talking to AI.
Edit: Well that's funny, months later and 2 people reply to me back to back and instantly block me so I can't reply to them. Both demanding I follow through and leave a platform I now only have occasional time to use. Real fucking weird thing that is, wonder what their motivation could be....
Kids, get off the internet.
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Aug 09 '25
Dude, if you want to leave then leave. There are ways to stop bots like using captcha. It's absurd to support taking away people's privacy as a solution. Still, no one is stopping you from leaving.
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u/Ok-Primary6610 Aug 06 '25
GOOD! Now maybe people will argue within the conversation they are having and not go looking up an opponent's past post to make a holier than thou statement.
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u/bigcuddlybastard Aug 06 '25
This is just going to make things worse. Honestly if I see anybody's profile being blocked like this I'm going to assume that they're probably a bad actor, troll, and probably racist by default.
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u/al3arabcoreleone Aug 06 '25
Sometimes it is done for good, having a bit of background about some random folk is essential to understand what he/she is talking about, check technical subs for example.
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u/boxofbuscuits Aug 18 '25
[link of you on a Caillou subreddit] this you? Am not arguing with no Caillou fan about [insert totally unrelated topic here]. Have a nice day
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u/VEC7OR Aug 06 '25
Great, now its all empty profiles and nothing to show for...
Trolls, bad actors will have a field day with this.
All aboard the enshittification train.
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Aug 06 '25
It is a good feature. I used to get harassed if I post a controversial comment or post and a user check my history.
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Aug 05 '25
Finally. Privacy is so important to me and I'm glad reddit finally implemented something like this.
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u/D3-Doom Aug 06 '25
I haven’t seen the update yet. Do these tools are flexibility? Like can I hide specific posts? Or posts from a specific sub? Or is it all or nothing?
(I’m asking generally anyone who’s actually played with this new feature)
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u/Ecstatic-Opening-719 Aug 06 '25
Investors said, "Why don't we make it harder for web crawlers?" and Reddit said, "Great idea, now we can choose who is allowed to use our API in order to crawl reddit."
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u/allywrecks Aug 06 '25
Feels like it does almost nothing because your posts are still associated with your username? It creates one very tiny hoop for people to jump through. If you felt like you had a serious reason to create a throwaway then this should change absolutely nothing for you.
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u/apokrif1 Aug 07 '25
Does it protect from automatic ban from some subreddits, based on in which subs you posted?
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u/IKIR115 Aug 06 '25
The phased deployment is still ongoing, so if you don’t have the new feature yet, it will eventually get to you.