I was banned from a subreddit about the German language

submitted by Richard_Parker from self.MeanwhileOnReddit

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[–]SoCo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Technically, they can always know you are the same user despite VPN or Tor usages, using different browsers, etc. Fingerprinting is a massive inescapable beast.

[–]Richard_Parker[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I see. Different device then would be required, that I have never used from my main account?

Is that an especially labor intensive process, such that the risk is small?

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

They likely employ a third party service to do extreme user finger printing. They'd tell you it is because of spam, but with their focus on being a highly sophisticated censorship and propaganda platform, they will find many areas of benefit. This can usually reliably grab uniquely identifying fingerprints about your browser and device, include supported fonts, supported SSL ciphers, and video card details. It's not worth trying to obfuscate and work around this, using a second device and a VPN seems the only way.

[–]Richard_Parker[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I can post queries to my girlfriend who can then post on her on her computer I suppose.

[–]Richard_Parker[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Do you agree it is pointless to even ask for then to rescind the ban?