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by gzread8 hours ago |
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upvoteby mschuster917 hours ago|
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You need to ditch and replace all your devices and acquire a new phone number. I'm serious. Virtually all large websites these days employ a lot of fingerprinting and persistence technologies.

And yes, ditch them. Even well over a decade ago, Wikipedia of all places already employed IP address matching to link sockpuppet accounts. You must be extremely careful of never using any device that was associated with your old accounts on the same network as the devices associated with your new account. And that includes devices only seen by association.

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upvoteby happyopossum6 hours ago|
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> and acquire a new phone number

> Wikipedia of all places already employed IP address matching to link sockpuppet accounts

That’s… well, that’s just not how tcp/ip works. Your phone number has nothing to do with your device IP…

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upvoteby beachy3 hours ago|
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It does when your phone number is used for 2fa in a session running on tcp/ip
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upvoteby allajfjwbwkwja4 hours ago|
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It happens to all new accounts. It's known that new account are shadowbanned almost everywhere until they are 30 days old and farmed some karma on a very small set of subreddits that don't shadowban new accounts. It's shocking they ever get any new users, really; as far as a non-technical new user knows, nobody ever reads their comments for some reason.
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upvoteby gzread6 hours ago|
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How contagious is it? Can I get other people banned from Reddit by logging into my instantly banned account on their wifi network?
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upvoteby ssl-31 hours ago|
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Not that contagious, I'm afraid.

My boss uses Reddit some. I'm banned. At the shop, we use the same IP address (and we do not use ipv6 there).

I tried to log in with a ~10-year-old account that I'd never commented with. A perfect Beetlejuicing moment had arrived and I just wanted to play the game with a short, snarky comment.

It logged in fine, and then: Insta-ban, just like that. (Maybe I should have used a new browser on a new network that I've never used before, but whatever -- nothing of value was lost here.)

Meanwhile, the boss man's access continued unimpeded; this suggests that it is a rather targeted contagion.

And it seems to follow the systems, not the networks.

(If anyone wants banned, just let me know. I seem to have a well-poisoned system to play with.)

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upvoteby kevin_thibedeau3 hours ago|
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Just don't use apps. Then the only association is a discardable cookie and IP.
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upvoteby code_duck1 hours ago|
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There’s also browser fingerprinting
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upvoteby boca_honey5 hours ago|
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This is widly innacurate.
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