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New form of censorship?
submitted 2 years ago by magnora7 from self.censorship
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[–]magnora7[S] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun - 2 years ago (1 child)
Yup. That's one way, but it would be tricky.
Another possibility to find users IP is when someone PMs you a link, pretending it's spam they PM'd everyone. But instead they send each user to a unique link on a server they control. Then they log everyone's IPs, and can connect it to usernames because each user got a unique link.
Watch out for this kind of crap.
[–]chottohen 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 2 years ago (0 children)
That's a good idea. Whoever this is—probably a bot—is even trying to gaslight me by moving my cursor around randomly. That happens sometimes when I take a quick look at saidit, then go make a cup of coffee or am away for a few minutes. The first time it happens, it is disturbing. I do not have delusions of grandeur but I have appeared on a certain group's radar a few times, here and on reddit before and they decided to put a bot on me, I think. But it's a time-share sort of thing where it is not always there but it does seem to correlate with whatever I posted recently. If I posted something critical of that certain group then the bot kicks in within a few hours usually. So is this sort of thing usual? And yes, once a year or so ago, someone suspicious sent me a link and I just automatically clicked it, then realized it could be tracking me and quickly clicked away. That's the same technique you mentioned and I think they got me on that one. They sure are out there and it's a little spooky but I won't be put off and know that, for them, I'm not important enough to warrant more than a bot sometimes. Oh, and yes I use whaat I think is a good VPN. Thanks.
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[–]magnora7[S] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun - (1 child)
[–]chottohen 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - (0 children)