[desktop web] There is a bug in the honoring of privacy settings between old reddit and new reddit.
This is a burner account. On my main account i noticed that to other users, my profile on OLD reddit displays 2 comments. This is despite me having all privacy settings enabled to hide comments on my profile. These two comments are not my most recent nor my oldest comments. If you view the same profile on NEW reddit, these comments are NOT visible. This is the bug - there is somehow something special about exactly 2 of my comments that make them escape the privacy settings in the old reddit UI.
Now, I made this burner account because apparently the only way to report bugs is to post in this subreddit, which is public, and since its a privacy bug that would be broadcasting to the public that they can click on my profile and see things they shouldn't be able to see...not a good system.
When I investigated this bug to ensure it wasn't a browser cache issue, I first cleared my browser cache and opened the network devtools for my profile in incognito. I was able to see that the HTML document request contained server-produced html which contained the comment text. I then sent it to another friend of mine across the state to verify the same on his end. I did this on both chrome and firefox.
I will gladly provide my profile username and screenshots for any admin that wants to verify the bug.