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How does reddit track you? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by Azki25@lemmy.ml 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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[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 25 points 3 days ago (15 children)

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

[–] ragepaw@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 days ago (3 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.

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

Yeah they are banning for saying anything against musk , Trump, any of his cabinet. Or saying something nice about Luigi. The censorship is out of control.

[–] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] Hellotypewriter@retrolemmy.com 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don’t know how everyone on there isn’t banned at this point. It’s so arbitrary.

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

It's all bots that are left.

[–] TenderFury@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Same for me. If it wasn't talking shit to chuds it was insulting scammers, and there was one time I posted a meme that included the r-word uncensored. Oh well, fuck reddit

[–] Azki25@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Aneb@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days 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 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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