Browser fingerprinting and the such.
I'm not exactly sure how it works. But Reddit has banned my accounts whenever I make a new one and i've deleted all of my Reddit cookies, they somehow find me.
I'm not exactly sure how it works. But Reddit has banned my accounts whenever I make a new one and i've deleted all of my Reddit cookies, they somehow find me.
They also exfiltrate this data back in ways to prevent blocking, by completely randomizing the API endpoint used to submit it and also not use a dedicated endpoint. For example on each pageload it might send to /submit, or /register, or /friend, it'll just pick a random valid endpoint and "front" that
They also continue to do this while you are logged out to tie your IP to the fingerprint.
hxxps://www.redditstatic.com/reddit-init.en.4-tSxFR4sOk.js
Commonly spoofed fingerprints will result in a permanent ban automatically.