Well, a random creep messaged me on reddit, after a few messages exchanged he said he looked up my private profile on google and read through my posts. Outside of how angry I was at him for doing that, it surprised me that google does this, It even gave an AI OVERVIEW of who I am on reddit, (I have posted my age and country on reddit, and a few other things ofc, but the others describe what im into and what I do on reddit, not tied to any personal info, so its just my age and country really) But what the fuck google? I know you can look up people in places like ghostddit, so I wasn’t expecting my profile to be 100% private either, but it’s crazy you can find it straight on google. I guess its slowly coming to a point than ANYTHING you do online is gonna visible for EVERYONE. Yes we were already being surveilled, but this and then the discord thing with messages from servers showing up on google too? I’m pissed off man. (I know lemmy is not private either, but I don’t have a google account tied to here, the one email I used to register didn’t ask me for phone verification so its not as bad to hang out here, might look into matrix later)
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Was pretty naive of me, but outside of that, don’t you think it’s a little scummy that they put in “X likes to keep their posts hidden, but check out their stats to learn more about them.”? And even here where it says you content is visible in communities “Profile curation only applies to your profile and your content stays visible in communities. Mods of communities you participate in and redditors whose profile posts you engage with can still see your full profile for moderation.”
It’s written in such a way that makes you think “okay if I post somewhere my post will be seen by people from that community or admins” not “your content will be discoverable by anyone who types in your username on reddit without even needing to log in, and also on google”
Like if you can just do that, what even is the point of having a toggle for your posts and comments to be hidden? For people to go through the inconvenience of typing for 4 seconds in the search up top? I think it’s purposely deceitful.