I think I finally reached my breaking point with reddit (about time). Earlier this month the humorless admins of /r/teslamotors banned me for posting a video of my custom charge port cover. A day or so later I mistakenly posted on the sub using my secondary account. That’s on me. The /r/teslamotors admins gave me a permaban and reddit gave me 7 day site ban. I can take my lumps so whatever.

However, apparently I commented today on /r/teslamotors using the account that received the permaban. Dumbass reddit gave me another 7 day site ban for ban evasion. WTF? Either a software bug allowed me to comment or /r/teslamotors lifted my ban for some reason.

Neither of those constitute ban evasion IMHO. I’m also tired of using old.reddit.com in phone browser since they killed apis.

  • thecrotch
    5·
    9 months ago

    Sure, and all of that goes out the window on a mobile app that doesn’t play by browser rules.

    This has nothing to do with browser rules. It’s how tcp/ip works.

    And 96% of reddit is on mobile

    And 100% of phones have a unique hardware ID visable to any app with the “read phone state” permission. Why the hell would anyone use a MAC address to identify you? And which MAC address would they use? The wifi nic? The mobile nic? The Bluetooth MAC?

    Idk about iPhones but MAC addresses on android are randomized by default. Maybe learn even the tiniest bit about what you’re talking about before you go calling people naive.

    • bitchkat@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      9 months ago

      He’s saying that the reddit client can report the MAC address, not that its able to be determined by the other end of a socket connection.

    • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world
      22·
      9 months ago

      Look, it doesn’t matter if its a MAC or a fingerprint or an invisible evercookie, if you DON’T format your PC and get a different IP address, you WILL be banned for ban evasion.

      I know this, I’ve had over 20 accounts banned from reddit in the last six years and several of them have been lifebans. Trust me when I say I’ve tried 20 different iterations of data security and the only one that works involves a hard drive wipe.

      • thecrotch
        31·
        9 months ago

        I’m not saying they can’t track you. I’m saying the person who told you that they’re not doing it by MAC was right, and your reply was not only wrong but painfully self righteous for a guy who doesn’t know what he’s talking about about.

        Also, changing your IP, clearing cookies, and installing a plugin that obfusticates your browser fingerprint ought to be enough. The second two are essentially what you did by blowing out your OS.

        • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world
          12·
          9 months ago

          Also, changing your IP, clearing cookies, and installing a plugin that obfusticates your browser fingerprint ought to be enough.

          No it doesn’t, unless the admins had two lucky guesses in a row.