Someone posted in r/waymo a video of someone covering all the cameras with tape, which apparently immobilizes the self driving car. I interpreted that as non dangerous to actual people since it keep the car from moving at all.
Anyway, everyone in the comments was a circle jerk saying Waymo should come after the person legally. I suggested that big tech like Google and Uber may do more unethical things than this person putting some tape on a self driving car. Never did I once threaten violence lol.
At least you got a Warning. My Reddit Account was banned permanently for No reason and i cant make new ones because they to get baned. But tbh i dont care About Reddit anymore
Is it based on IP? If they ban me permanently was just going to create a new account via VPN or from my local coffee shop WiFi. But I also don’t really care if they delete my account.
It is IP and they also do browser fingerprinting. After I got banned I made like 10 accounts and they all got banned no matter what IP I used to sign up. Finally I totally switched IP, browser, OS, everything and managed to sign up an account that didn’t get banned.
I use my reddit account much more strategically now, rather than just hang out there and post comments about whatever. If I’m spending my time and effort, I try to make sure it’s really actually important to me and worth it knowing that my contribution is also helping that shitty company / platform.
I also deleted every comment from 10+ years on my now banned account.
yea everything as to be different, different IP, and device. they also look time zone, components, posting behaviour and pattern, plus the writing style.
Look out for the reddit “kill” cookie that will linger in your browser
Interesting. I wonder if it’s as simple as deleting one cookie. Someone else suggested Reddit does more sophisticated finger printing. I suspect that cookie is only one component of your digital fingerprint. It’s really just a question of how badly Reddit wants to keep people banned and how much resources they’re willing to pour into enforcing the ban.
Cookies are just one thing that can linger. I’ve also seen people not delete a reddit extension in their browser which also immediately identifies you
Check out https://fingerprint.com/. I’m not saying Reddit does this, but there are tons of datapoints they can use to fingerprint you. From what I remember, you can instruct HTML canvas to draw something and you can uniquely identify the person based on micro differences in the drawing. These differences are due to the users unique graphics rendering pipeline (e.g. browsers graphics APIs, operating system, graphics drivers, GPU). Ok so you turn off JavaScript. You can still fingerprint someone using a bunch of CSS tricks.
thats what reddit likely uses.
I created one Account on the train WiFi and it got banned one day later. No Post No comments So idk
Did you connect to your banned IP address later? Probably not worth figuring out but I’m curious. There are so many ways to fingerprint people, so it’s entirely possible they collect a fingerprint from your browser and use that to match you to the banned account.
I used the Account on my Home WiFi but fun fact thats Not the Network i used when i got the original ban