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mschuster91today at 12:59 PM3 repliesview on HN

You need to ditch and replace all your devices and acquire a new phone number. I'm serious. Virtually all large websites these days employ a lot of fingerprinting and persistence technologies.

And yes, ditch them. Even well over a decade ago, Wikipedia of all places already employed IP address matching to link sockpuppet accounts. You must be extremely careful of never using any device that was associated with your old accounts on the same network as the devices associated with your new account. And that includes devices only seen by association.


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happyopossumtoday at 2:24 PM

> and acquire a new phone number

> Wikipedia of all places already employed IP address matching to link sockpuppet accounts

That’s… well, that’s just not how tcp/ip works. Your phone number has nothing to do with your device IP…

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gzreadtoday at 2:58 PM

How contagious is it? Can I get other people banned from Reddit by logging into my instantly banned account on their wifi network?

boca_honeytoday at 3:08 PM

This is widly innacurate.