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They can't know at what minute you paused or resumed a video via server side (this is sick to me)... Actually, this doesn't even make sense, if they are able to know all of that via server-side why send redundant data via client-side?
I took a look and besides the amount of info they send, what draw my attention is that they send an accurate flag if you're using an adblocker or not, not sure why tho, but they know who use and who don't, they just chose to do nothing.
There are way more if you inspect it closely.
It's the endpoint of new reddit that I mentioned in the post, if you block it the feed won't load anymore.
Their video player streams, not unlike YouTube. Sending the “the user paused” action can easily be explained by them wanting to tell the server to stop sending data when the client isn’t even attempting to view it.
Look, I get that you’re gung go about privacy, but you’re going to see damn near exactly these types of things with any API. Sometimes it’s nefarious, sure. But the vast majority of it is simply how web based software works.
I mean, just look at the majority of that data. What feed you’re in? You pulled the feed data from their server, they don’t need to gather that for tracing purposes. What media is open? Obviously they can track that when you pull the media info down from their servers. How long that media is? The sizing of the media? When that post was posted?
I’m seeing virtually nothing in there they don’t already have. This is just an API being fed information it needs to run. The fact that it’s all information they can already track is kinda proof of that. Why go to all this trouble tracking the information a second time?