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How does reddit track you? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Soooo. I was banned for telling a extreme right wing dickhead that he was an asshole. Yeah I shouldn't have but whatever. (yes I've appealed it and failed)

Now all my sub accounts are also banned.

Is the only way to evade the ban to dodge your online fingerprint? (new phone, new email, new ph number. Etc)

I read it's just IP based but my flat has 3 others that use reddit daily and they are fine so surely it's device ID and email linked to device. Etc

Sorry to ask here guys but it's wracking my brain.

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[–] 24 points 1 year ago (15 children)
  1. I am suspicious of your perfectly innocent story sir or ma'am
  2. Modern web sites are very good at this sort of thing. From hearing from moderators on the small scale, it's fairly easy to tell when someone who has been banned comes back, simply because they almost always start doing the exact same stuff that got them banned. At that point you don't really need to do exact fingerprinting, you just look at the relevant dates / behavior / rough device fingerprinting and you have about 99% confidence that this is the same person. But, also, there is a whole technology of figuring out who people are on the web at this point, and it's pretty comprehensive. Even if you change devices and IPs, your browser's tracking cookies probably link your Reddit session with your other big-web-site accounts pretty much instantly and there is definitely some kind of API that shares that information back with Reddit. I'm honestly not sure even what I could recommend as a working way to do ban evasion on Reddit.
  3. Bro why Reddit? I still read it periodically because there's neat stuff there sometimes but there are far better federated social networks than modern Reddit out there, I think.
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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I am suspicious of your perfectly innocent story sir or ma'am

    I got 2 temp suspensions then a ban for

    • Saying Danielle Smith should stand on her head so the blood will rush there and she can have a coherent thought

    24 hours for threatening violence

    • When someone said JD Vance will never be President, I responded with, "He will when Trump has the inevitable coronary from all the cheeseburgers he eats"

    72 hours for threatening violence

    When ICE Barbie suggested Canada isn't doing enough to defend the border, I posted "She can keep her cunt ass on her side of the border"

    • Perma ban for threatening violence

    I absolutely believe OP was banned for calling someone an asshole.

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

    Similar path here as well, but much less detailed record keeping to back it up.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Legit bro. All I said was "your likely the same asshole spray painting "fk jacinda adern" on the footpaths of Auckland"

    Apparently that's inciting violence and harassment. Sigh

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    You gotta say a**ho*e or they ban you for swearing. I can't fucking believe someone on the internet would permaban someone for saying: asshole, cunt, trump, fuck, Hitler was an awful person. But fascists are going to fascist Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―

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

    bro I got permabanend for saying the wind is blowing west, it was because one of my accounts was already banned from that sub and I didnt realize but it was just a random throwaway comment into a void of thousands on the front page. No idea why I initially got banned, was publicfreakout, but you can get banned from one sub on one account for any random reason like commenting on conservative even if you are a liberal, and those mods will ban you from other subs they own.

    If you use alts for different hobbies or to change your name, you could unknowingly comment on a sub you got banned from on the front page and get every account you use instantly permabanned no appeal.

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

    Yeah. I do see the point, Reddit moderation at this point is hilariously bad so I guess I shouldn't assume that this person did any little thing wrong.

    The whole moderation model which depends on volunteers with unlimited power and allows any random idiot to create an unlimited number of alts, is broken. Reddit devs and moderators have made a good go I guess of trying to make it work, but all they have done is demonstrated that it is not the way.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Alts used to be encouraged, why I even made them, plus my username was my fullrealname lol, wanted to stop using that. Its wild how they could instantly detect my comment and permaban all accounts within a second, which means they could've just prevented me from seeing the sub I was bannee from or commenting in the first place, instead they use it to perma ban. It's like a trap that only works if mods arent banhappy, ppl also have to remember what subs banned them and notice they were banned. Also assumes ppl arent using alts and the only reason they use them is to avoid subreddit bans.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    The whole model is just absolutely stupid. I mean, I get how it was what Aaron and Spez came up with back 20 years ago, but the fact that nobody bothered to make anything fundamentally better at any point since then is just fuckin' weird.

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