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Public stalking-enabling was always the worst aspect of reddit. That it helps bots is incidental to how good it is for user privacy.
As others highlighted:
This only helps the bots. It's useless against stalking, since you can still find a list of the person's post/comments by searching their username in Google or even Reddit itself. And a stalker, unlike someone trying to denounce bots, will do it.
If anything this harms users. A false sense of security is worse than accurately feeling unsafe.
And the motivation for that is clearly to hide the bots. Bots give you metrics. Metrics give you ad views. Ad views give you money.
Are mods of one subreddit still able to stalk your history of another subreddit in order to permaban you for joining a subreddit that they don't like? It seems counterproductive for advertisers but that's exactly what the r_bitcoin subreddit does. It's a well-known echo chamber and those mods want to keep it that way.