• Pratai@piefed.ca
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    22 hours ago

    They hardware ban now. I can’t make an account without it being insta-banned. And I have a VPN.

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      17 hours ago

      how do they do it? whats the tech behind that? curious. but… not revisiting that crap site lol

    • baines@lemmy.cafe
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      22 hours ago

      reddit doesnt have ring 0 so probably not a hw ban

      maybe browser based?

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      • Account Bans: Suspensions or permanent bans applied directly to a specific user profile (either site-wide by Reddit admins or subreddit-specific by moderators). [1]
      • IP Bans: Blocking a user’s internet protocol (IP) address to stop them from browsing or posting from that network. [1, 2]
      • Ban Evasion & Device Tracking: Reddit uses multiple signals—including tracking cookies, browser fingerprinting, app identifiers, and behavioral patterns—to detect when a banned user tries to spin up a fresh account. While mobile apps can read basic device telemetry, this does not function as a true low-level hardware component (motherboard/CPU/GPU) ban seen in online multiplayer video games. [1, 2, 3]