And it’s still not worth the money and a lot easier to simply temp-ban via IP.
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bassomitron@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoYeah, banning by IP from such a big website is pretty silly on the site admin’s part. Tons and tons of places share 1 to a small handful of IPs (e.g. apartment complexes, school dorms, etc).
JASN_DE@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Pika@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
this is how I manage blocks. Temporary bans unless it’s a repeat offender.
Taldan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Reddit still uses IP bans. It’s crazy how far behind the times some tech companies are
thebookelf@literature.cafe 2 weeks ago
Not only that, but they use device bans as well, so even if you switch to an unbanned IP they can still detect if you’re on the same device you were first banned on, and ban you again for ban evasion.
This one time I got banned from world news for disagreeing with a post, and I wasn’t even impolite about it. Months later I accidentally commented on world news again using an alt account, as I had forgotten about the ban. So then I got permanently banned from reddit itself, and every time I tried to make a new account it got banned for ban evasion. I was only able to make a new account and keep it for more than 24 hours when some time later I changed my IP and bought a new phone.
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
And also a huge issue for anyone using a VPN to browse the web
nogooduser@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Also, most people don’t even have a static ip address so they might have banned a different location altogether and the banned ip address moved.