1 year anniversary of my Reddit ban. I was directly targeted by one of the site's admins for mocking them over their censorship and rampant banning of harmless communities and users.

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[–]RaverJodes 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

But how do they get all that when you access via a browser? It's only supposed to relay very limited information about the browser and OS etc

[–]EternalSunset[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Your browser actually sends out a lot of information that can be used to identify your device, even if you have cookies disabled. For example, your screen resolution, your configuration settings, the extensions you have installed, your timezone, details about your hardware such as your CPU and GPU models, etc... They cross-link all this stuff to create a digitial fingerprint of your browser. It is extraordinarily rare for two different users to have the same combination of all of the individual settings unless they are both running on a freshly installed and completely vanilla device.

Watch this video if you want to understand more about how they do it:
https://youtu.be/JqO-WIG3GBY?t=76

[–]RaverJodes 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks. what about things that could identify a user even if they use a fresh device on a fresh network? How does Reddit do that?

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

I think it's hilarious that you people find it so hard to believe that Reddit knows your real IP address and read it knows your exact GPS coordinates.

Let me ask you this.. did I read that a Chinese company called tencent owns Reddit? I think I read that.. so you guys think that you're clever because you use a VPN? How many major VPN companies are there? Do you think that $0.10 / Google / Facebook that between the group of them they don't have the money to gobble up these major vpns?

Let me just tell it to you straight.. when you log into any of the major social media networks, they know your exact physical location on planet Earth, can't get no better than that can you?

Please continue waddling around the room pretending that you're so smart, don't pay no never mind to me.