Hi, when I was a reddit faker (I haven’t relapsed, I’ve stayed out of reddit and never posted another fake story, im cured) I wondered if someone the mods would figure out the tens of accounts that came from my computer and noticed I was the writer of many fake stories.
It seems like that never happened, but come on, the only thing I used at the time was Firefox Containers to be able to sign up with a different account. Not even a VPN or any of that.
The Reddit Admins absolutely track IP addresses and browser ID numbers.
When Reddit got pissed that we were deleting our posted content and locking down the site they mass banned hundreds of the moderators including myself. They hit accounts I had not logged into since 2013 so they absolutely are tracking account connections.
He’s asking about moderators, not admins. Of course admins can see that information.
Moderators can’t see anything.
Actually, moderators have access to a new tool that flags accounts suspected of ban evasion. The cannot see IPs or which other accounts were related, but they can see if an account is suspected and with what level of confidence. Many subreddits have a policy to ban all such flagged accounts.
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Doesn’t change your browser ID information. They still know it is you.
You can and should be shifting that to not be unique as well
How would I go about finding out my browser ID?
https://kluge.in-chemnitz.de/tools/browser.php
i guess you can’t tell which metrics are tracked by which website but you can see the potential ones at https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
And you need to use these kinds of metrics to distinguish between users. One IP address will be shared by a whole office building or a school.
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