If you’re going through many extra steps to change your online fingerprint, then you’re correct. But there are things they can use to match accounts together. Even a simple IP address combined with behavior from that address can be effective.
In my limited experience with ban evaders while modding on reddit (on a ~100k subscribers size sub), reddit’s automatic systems do catch some ban evaders. We would sometimes ban a really angry person and later find multiple comments from different accounts in the filtered queue trying to continue their bickering.
If you’re going through many extra steps to change your online fingerprint, then you’re correct. But there are things they can use to match accounts together. Even a simple IP address combined with behavior from that address can be effective.
In my limited experience with ban evaders while modding on reddit (on a ~100k subscribers size sub), reddit’s automatic systems do catch some ban evaders. We would sometimes ban a really angry person and later find multiple comments from different accounts in the filtered queue trying to continue their bickering.