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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

deleting your account also wont stop them from finding your new accounts, they mostly archived that as well. they look at browser fingerprinting, device, device components, time zone discrepancy, browser size and VERSION, resolution,,,etc. if you use any paid service/trial service that can spoof any of these above and they arnt the correct versions, they can detect that.

and then theres the warming up period with new accounts(like not posting, reporting, or upvoting too fast after account creation)

[–] Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As far as I know, they use things called Evercookies and it's been a thing now too. If you have an Evercookie, then it won't really matter what browser you use or even if you clean the cache and history. You have to deep scrub your system and practically all traces of your browser to even get rid of those.

And even so, basic networking is a no brainer when they can just flag your IP and it won't even matter how many times you've done that process.

VPN and Incognito browsing is the way.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I discovered the other night that I couldn't even browse Reddit anonymously with my VPN active.

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

They've been blocking Vons for years.

The absolute degradation of the site is appalling. And most of the comments read like they're written by children, because I'm assuming most of them are.

The absolute stupidity of everything on the site is flabberghasting.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, since I've been on Lemmy, it's really highlighted just how vacuous the majority of the discourse is on Reddit. I assumed it was just mostly dumb kids, but just accepted it as the nature of all social media these days. It's so much more grown up here, for the most part.

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reddit used to be like this. The enshittification happened so gradually.

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 1 points 11 hours ago

There were moments when it intensified suddenly. Most recently when their stock was about to go public.

[–] Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't know then. I can browse Reddit just fine and I'm not using a VPN. It is interacting with the content and commenting I can't do because auto-shadowban.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can browse when I turn the VPN off. I no longer have an account nor the desire to interact with it's content any way, but I do like to keep up with a few subreddits that have little to no content here.

[–] Cybersteel@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

it's basically impossible for me. I can only get tech help from YouTube or ugh stack overflow now. Maybe 4chan if I'm desperate.

it's basically impossible for me. I can only get tech help from YouTube or ugh stack overflow now. Maybe 4chan if I'm desperate.

[–] sacredfire@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

That there are so many ways to store data on a browser (including exploits) and that they expose so much information about your physical device is a big part of the problem. Even barring that, there are additional ways they can fingerprint a user. While any one thing might not be telling, when you take all of them in combination, it gets frighteningly accurate how easy it is for them to know exactly who you are.

They certainly can. Do you have evidence that suggests they are doing that?