<story><title>Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, existing users opted in</title><url>https://np.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/4rl5to/outbound_clicks_rollout_complete/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>soared</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m stunned they weren&amp;#x27;t already doing this. It takes all of 30 seconds [1] to track this and is &amp;#x2F;incredibly&amp;#x2F; useful, especially on a site that&amp;#x27;s used largely for outbound links. I have outbound link tracking set up for every client and personal website. Same with email address clicks, button clicks, file downloads, etc.&lt;p&gt;Did anyone really think websites weren&amp;#x27;t doing this? This is incredibly innocuous compared to other things.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazeemetrics.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;google-tag-manager-tutorial-part-1-tracking-outbound-links-gtm-version-2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazeemetrics.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;google-tag-manager-tuto...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Reddit now tracks all outbound link clicks by default, existing users opted in</title><url>https://np.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/4rl5to/outbound_clicks_rollout_complete/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>moultano</author><text>Hopefully they can use this to substantially improve their algorithm. (Voting without clicking, click to vote interval, click duration) Lots of reddit&amp;#x27;s problems are due to algorithmic flaws that they just didn&amp;#x27;t have the data to correct.</text></comment>