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Privacy in the digital age. Privacy in the digital age (this is not a SECURITY subreddit, and PUBLIC data, closed source, etc is off-topic) Founded 2008 · 1.7M members

1.7M members. The best post we have captured here reached 17.7K upvotes, which works out to 11 per 1,000 members.

11peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.7Mmembers
17.7Kbest post
1.7Kmost comments
803posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

35% 33% 32%
Link 35% Question 33% Text 32%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

question 206 news 176 discussion 125 age verification 77 data breach 16 chat control 15 software 12 hardware 11 guide 5 eli5 4

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

NSA Deletes “Honesty” and “Openness” From Core Values Statement on Their Site

↑ 17.7K 💬 288 link 2018

ICE Can Reportedly Access Flock Surveillance Cameras, Now Americans Are Destroying Them

↑ 13.7K 💬 312 link 2026

Privacy for the rich. In a record setting pace congress quietly passed a bill that makes it impossible to track private jets after billonaires like E…

↑ 13.1K 💬 705 link 2024

Rep. Thomas Massie Announces Federal Bill to Defund Flock Surveillance Cameras

↑ 11.3K 💬 136 link 2026

Theresa May says the internet must now be regulated following London Bridge terror attack

↑ 10.9K 💬 729 link 2017

I think I accidentally started a movement - Policing the Police by scraping court data

↑ 10.7K 💬 378 text 2020

Canadians are set to lose all digital privacy. No one here is talking about it.

↑ 10.1K 💬 1.7K text 2026

White House Publishes Names, Emails, Phone Numbers, Home Addresses of Critics

↑ 9.6K 💬 559 link 2017

Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior'

↑ 9.2K 💬 687 link 2025

TIL Mark Zuckerberg was sued by 3 reporters from the Crimson, after Zuckerberg hacked into their email accounts to monitor the investigation against …

↑ 8.4K 💬 238 link 2018

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/privacy, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/privacy?
r/privacy ("Privacy in the digital age") describes itself this way: Privacy in the digital age (this is not a SECURITY subreddit, and PUBLIC data, closed source, etc is off-topic). It was founded in 2008 and has 1.7M members.
How many members does r/privacy have?
r/privacy has about 1.7M members. ViralHunt has tracked 803 of its posts; the biggest reached 17.7K upvotes, which is 11 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/privacy?
"NSA Deletes “Honesty” and “Openness” From Core Values Statement on Their Site" reached 17.7K upvotes and 288 comments in 2018, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/privacy.
What subreddits are similar to r/privacy?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/alberta, r/goodnews, r/AnarchyChess, r/minnesota, r/Amazing.
What kind of posts do best on r/privacy?
Of the posts we hold, 35% are link posts and 33% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/privacy?
Across 803 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 14:00 UTC (4.7K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 13:00 UTC (4.6K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 14:00 UTC (3.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/privacy?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/privacy has 6.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 236 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/privacy, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.