• zaphod@feddit.de
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    8 months ago

    Not sure that existed, but how would it work? There were no accounts and IPs are ephemeral.

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      8 months ago

      Probably UUIDs based on fingerprinting the browser/machine. With enough js there’s usually enough to qualify a person’s activity as unique even with minor changes regarding updates or whatever. You can mitigate it by changing user agent strings or disabling some/all js or site permissions, but they can also block you from using the service for doing so, so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯.