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Reddit started blocking VPN users on old.reddit.com (lemm.ee)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by lemmylem@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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At this point, I'm not even going to bother trying to go on there anymore.

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I went the other route. I am very noisy online. I post and comment all over the place but I treat all of that as what it is, content I have given away freely and publicly. Now, when I need to do something privately, you are going to need serious mojo to be able to dig it out. Plus, who would assume that I do certain things privately when almost everything I do is out in the open.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

SELECT 'ipaddress', 'username' FROM tables
WHERE (username.normalize() == "jomiran" 
OR post.links CONTAIN "jomiran") 
FILTER content IN _blacklist_keywords;

Or some such. Data is easy to mine if you have a target. It's finding unknown targets that is hard.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. Do a search for my username and get flooded with shitposts. IP? MAC? Same, plus some porn watching and way too much YouTube. Everything I want to keep private is done with as many degrees of separation as possible.

[–] pressanykeynow@iusearchlinux.fyi 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

IP? MAC? Same

Unique fingerprint? Most likely the same with your "private" stuff.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

I use disposable hardware (one time use) and unique, pre-configured remote access points from third party locations for my work. In other words, many little headless Raspberry Pis everywhere.

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 3 points 7 months ago

I have 10 Facebook accounts, a few with my real name and about 20 google accounts.

The real accounts that I use are created and destroyed frequently.