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Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months agoI never used the site but as far as I’ve seen, whenever you encounter an asshole the only option was to skip to the next person. Was there a report button? A voting system might have worked, where down voted people or bots would be isolated and excluded from the community.
zaphod@feddit.de 7 months ago
Not sure that existed, but how would it work? There were no accounts and IPs are ephemeral.
metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub 7 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)_/¯.