Finally in the truly permabanned club.

They have some type of ban detection. I use a VPN and bounce between logging into my different accounts.

Not for ban evasion but for doxxing, I don’t post personal info on my politics account, my hobby accounts are pretty open, etc.

I pissed off somebody and the sub reddit banned me. I go thru and filter that sub out of my accounts. Didnt think about other people using my wifi.

Buddy comes over and posts a single post in that sub. His account and ALL of my accounts are now permabanned.

The reason I know is they AI mod replied then deleted a post about ban evasion to him, so he knew the comment he made on what sub and we pieced it together.

The rest of the msgs I got from reddit made no sense as I didn’t post in the sub and until he mentioned the reply it all came together.

I would like to know how they are tracking me as I use a VPN. Kinda makes it useless if it doesn’t work as advertised. I put an appeal in, we know how thats going to go…

Updates to follow, not that I’m likely to stay on there. Maybe for my hobby subs.

  • lunatic_lobster@lemmy.world
    3·
    18 hours ago

    There’s a few ways I could think of to connect these things together

    1. Perfect VPN opsec is actually pretty hard to achieve, if you ever used the account when VPN wasn’t working they could get your local IP. Could be ipv6 wasn’t going through VPN, VPN wasn’t turned back on after a shutdown, VPN leaked IP, etc.
    2. Reddit likely has a unique browser fingerprint for you, if you used the same device to access two different accounts one on VPN and one off VPN they could still tie them together with a matching unique fingerprint across both accounts.
    3. If your buddy was using one of your devices same thing as above.

    With perfect VPN usage and perfect opsec and complete separation of devices and accounts it is very unlikely they would have been able to correlate this activity.

    • TIEPilot@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      11 hours ago

      OPSEC/COMSEC, acronyms I know all to well and its a a pain in the ass.

      1. Local IP is out as I use a VPN (that I no longer trust). I never run anything w/o it and I flip servers all the time (10-30x a day)

      2. This is where it falls down and I was going to go pure VM’s for reddit as I like to screw w/ certain groups. So the VPN hides the IP and the digital finger print is out as I clear everything when I shut down my VMs. So that works against me.

      3. Thats prolly what happened. He has logged in here enough to see the pattern.

      They denied my appeal so its clandestine time because some groups on reddit need to be checked from time to time.