Oct 28, 2026 · 2 min read

Is It Safe and Legal to Search Reddit Users?

Understand what's allowed, what's public, and how your privacy is protected.

Searching a Reddit username with a public search engine is ordinary web search. Hidden Post Finder does not log in as that person, and it does not bypass a lock. It opens results that are already on the public web.

This is not legal advice. Laws differ by country, and how you use a result matters more than the search itself.

What stays public

A post in a public subreddit can be copied by a search engine. Hiding a profile on Reddit changes what the profile page shows. It does not always erase pages that were already indexed. Anyone can type the same site:reddit.com /username/ query into Google. This site and the Android app only make that query easier to run.

Private messages, chat, and content that was never public are outside the tool. Deleted pages are not restored from a secret copy. If search engines no longer list a page, this tool cannot invent it.

How your own search is handled

On the website, the username stays in the browser. Find Posts opens Google in another tab. The name is not posted to a Hidden Post Finder account, because there is no account. Details are on the privacy page.

The Android app can remember searches on the phone so you can run them again. Those names are not attached to the app’s analytics events. Analytics is a handful of event names, such as whether a search started, with no username and no query text.

The app is free and ad-supported. After the first search, Google AdMob may show an ad. That is separate from the Reddit search.

Use it for a fair reason

Looking up your own posts, checking a public discussion, or finding a comment you already know about is the intended use. Using someone’s posting history to harass, threaten, or publish private details about them can be illegal even when the pages were public. Do not do that.

Hidden Post Finder is not affiliated with Reddit. The Reddit name is used only so you know which site the search covers. Read the about page for the full disclaimer.

If you want the same search on a phone, install Hidden Post Finder for Android.