If I purposely get a permanent ban from Reddit using public Wifi, will other people accessing Reddit using the same hotspot also get banned?

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[–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

They normally give user bans and not IP bans. I think ban evasion is tracked based on which IP address was used to originally register the account, or perhaps they use cookies. But merely logging in from a certain IP doesn't 'infect' your account. (And certainly not if it was a user ban.) It worked like this the last time I checked, but it'd be quite insane if merely logging in from the wrong IP address transfers a ban to that account, that's why I'm fairly certain it still works as I described above.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They do use cookies. If they go so far as to change your account passwords, that will infect any account you try to log into.