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27-point Reddit privacy audit: username reuse, subreddit map, vote history, chat requests, ad personalisation and 2FA, scored by risk profile.
This checklist scores a Reddit account against 27 real privacy controls and habits — search-engine indexing, the active-communities panel, public vote history, chat and private-message limits, ad personalisation, third-party app tokens and two-factor authentication — weighting each by how much identity linkage it actually removes. Reddit is unusual in that the highest-risk exposures are not toggles: your username is permanent, your comment history is public by default, and third-party archives keep copies of what you delete, so the audit gives those items the heaviest weights. Five risk profiles re-score the same list, and five controls are marked critical and cap the score at 69% while any is still open.
Open Reddit Privacy Settings Checklist on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
Add your input to the workspace.
Adjust the options until the result looks right.
Copy or download the output and put it to work.
A permanent reused username outscores a dozen ad toggles, because that is how deanonymisation actually happens.
Comment history, posting times and archive copies are on the list, because Reddit has no setting for any of them.
The checklist runs entirely in your browser and never asks for a username, password or login code.
No. Deleting the account detaches your username from your posts — they stay visible attributed to [deleted] — and it does not touch the third-party archives and mirror sites that copied them earlier. To remove your own text you have to edit each comment and then delete it, and even that only affects copies made after the edit.
Only if you have switched it on. Reddit keeps upvote and downvote history private by default, and the “Make my upvotes public” and “Make my downvotes public” toggles under Settings > Privacy and Safety are what expose it. Moderators cannot see your individual votes either.
Turn off “Show up in search results” under Settings > Privacy and Safety, which asks search engines not to index your profile page. It does not remove pages already indexed, and it does nothing about the mirror sites that republish Reddit threads, so expect old results to persist for a while.
No. Reddit usernames are permanent — the only way to get a different one is to create a new account. That is why reusing a handle from another site is the single highest-weighted item here: once it is set, no privacy setting can break the link.