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[+] 10 points 1 year ago (14 children)
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    deleting your account also wont stop them from finding your new accounts, they mostly archived that as well. they look at browser fingerprinting, device, device components, time zone discrepancy, browser size and VERSION, resolution,,,etc. if you use any paid service/trial service that can spoof any of these above and they arnt the correct versions, they can detect that.

    and then theres the warming up period with new accounts(like not posting, reporting, or upvoting too fast after account creation)

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  • [+] 4 points 1 year ago (9 children)
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I discovered the other night that I couldn't even browse Reddit anonymously with my VPN active.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    They've been blocking Vons for years.

    The absolute degradation of the site is appalling. And most of the comments read like they're written by children, because I'm assuming most of them are.

    The absolute stupidity of everything on the site is flabberghasting.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oh yeah, since I've been on Lemmy, it's really highlighted just how vacuous the majority of the discourse is on Reddit. I assumed it was just mostly dumb kids, but just accepted it as the nature of all social media these days. It's so much more grown up here, for the most part.

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  • [+] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I can browse when I turn the VPN off. I no longer have an account nor the desire to interact with it's content any way, but I do like to keep up with a few subreddits that have little to no content here.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    That there are so many ways to store data on a browser (including exploits) and that they expose so much information about your physical device is a big part of the problem. Even barring that, there are additional ways they can fingerprint a user. While any one thing might not be telling, when you take all of them in combination, it gets frighteningly accurate how easy it is for them to know exactly who you are.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    They were archived as they restored them several times. But I kept the account and every time they restored them, I used software to go in and wipe them back out. They're still not visible on the front end to this day. Maybe they'll do something AI with them, but they don't show up in Google search anymore.

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