It was because I made a comment that said white people are demons.
I got perma IP banned because I got so many alts banned on r/neoliberal. I know I should stop but they start talking about US foreign policy and I just have to call them cumskin crackers. I can't help myself
They can track you based on all kinds of shit ranging from your operating system to the dimensions of your browser window. They can build a profile of all of the actual people behind the usernames based on arrays of finicky shit like that.
After they got me after like 24 hours of making a new account on a VPN I did some research.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/31/think-youre-anonymous-online-third-popular-websites-are-fingerprinting-you/
“Fingerprinting is designed to be user-hostile,” said Jackson. “It even takes the fact that you don’t want to be tracked as a parameter to make your fingerprint more unique.”
Edit: disregard the post bellow; I made a more complete version of it as its own post here.
To add to his answer, this page from the EFF demonstrates some of the fingerprinting methods he talks about and allows you to see how unique you are.
A while back I also did a messy, quick write up on the CTH sub before it was banned for bypassing such measures and more generally tightening your security / anonymity online; here is a copy paste (thanks to pushshift keeping all old CTH comments):
- Stop using intrusive social media platforms such as Facebook or Twitter. You can use reddit, but be very careful about doxxing.
- Use a VPN. A trustworthy one (yes, it costs a bit more).
- Use Firefox, not proprietary browsers such as Chrome (and when opting for Firefox, take a look at this - be aware that some of those will disable features though, such as zoom levels being consistent depending on the domain name). This will take care of most of fingerprinting.
- Enable Javascript only selectively with noscript. Be careful.
- Use ublock, privacy badger and https everywhere, obviously.
- Use several, separated firefox profiles for different activities: one for reddit, one for shopping online, etc.
- If you can, use Linux/BSD OSes. If you're worried about video games, it's 2020: almost all of them work fine with dxvk under Linux if you're prepared to work a bit on it.
- Use a user-agent switcher on all your firefox profiles, especially if you're on Linux/BSD: completes the fingerprinting protection. Pretend you're the most common UA, under Windows.
- For more dangerous stuff, hacktivism and the like: use tor on top of the above, ideally on top of using public access points or close wifi ones you hack. Change the way you write comments and your usual writing habits when you change identities.
It takes a lot of effort, though.
I got banned after i would go into shitlib subs on new and make a detailed comment which was vaguely insightful from a shitlib perspective then after it gained a couple hundred upvotes i would edit the comment to be ridiculously communist
Haha please do comrade
You can also go into racist subs make racist comments then change them to "CUCK THE WHITE RACE" later
As well as the good ole make a detailed racist comment discussing crime statistics (you know how they like to do) and do references like
[1] James Jones, A Study In Urban Crime, Harvard, 2016, p.123
But instead the hyper link links to interracial porn
Also you can do more ones like make a post and say shit like "I am 100℅ committed to the race war and 14 words however have recently been wondering what my girlfriend would look like with a black man. Does anyone else suffer this?"
Etc ad infinitum you get the idea
Reddit is garbage. When digg died reddit was fresh and free now its old and shitty. All hail the hexenbear master feed.
Yeah but this isn't exactly a general interest forum.
tl;dr: more people
Reddit was already a few years old when digg 2.0 happened. At that point /r/reddit was still a thing, but the community had already grown so large as to be splintered into subreddits and for the main feed to basically be what we see in /r/pics and /r/funny today. This site is still so small that /c/main is most of the actual good content is going.
At some point, inshallah, this place will hit a critical mass where the majority of people here will not be subscribed to the majority of subbears(?), and until that point it won't be possible to look up needlepoint patterns without getting into arguments about how based or lib some twitter account is.
Oh it will be. One Communism is established and we abolish fun once and for all.
more like ghost people tbh, OP didn't use the right terminology and proper recognition matters
A modest proposal that we establish underground cat picture subreddits to karma farm fresh alts
