funkyfarmington comments on Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel

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[–] funkyfarmington@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

How do they permaban you? By IP address? I can't see how they could verify a new user being the same person as a old one. Email address is trivial to get around too.

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[–] pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 months ago

I got permabanned a while ago. In the time since, I’ve moved to a new country and gotten all new devices. Made a new account with a new email address to try to join local subs in the new area.

That account was banned a couple hours later for ban evasion. I had made zero comments or posts and hadn’t joined any of my old subs. After that, I assumed they just have an AI that auto bans a chunk of new accounts “just in case”, because I genuinely have no idea what they could have done to connect the two accounts to each other.

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[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

They use several metrics to fingerprint you supposedly. I’m sure there’s a work around but I’m too fucking lazy for that when it comes to socials.

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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

Its not hard to profile the device you are using