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[–] 12173881? 3 points 4 points (+7|-3) ago 

If you follow a link from voat to reddit, or use the same username here and there, you can be tracked. Otherwise this is FUD spam.

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[–] 12173960? 3 points 1 point (+4|-3) ago 

Perhaps i.reddit image hosted links and imgur do likewise...

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[–] 12174206? 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

That was my first thought

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[–] 12174287? ago 

isn't there a way to tell with cookies if you have been on other sites? somehow Google manages to do it well with advertising

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[–] 12174457? 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Block all cookies and only allow the ones you need.

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[–] 12174915? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Only if you load assets from another site. With google analytics and google ads, since nearly every site loads google javascript, google can set a cookie while you are on that site or just see which site requested the js via the request's referer header. Voat doesn't load any reddit crap by default, so reddit can't tell via cookies what other sites a user has been to. The http referer header is the only way to know on reddit's side that a user from voat clicked on a link or loaded a reddit image inline on voat.