Hi, when I was a reddit faker (I haven’t relapsed, I’ve stayed out of reddit and never posted another fake story, im cured) I wondered if someone the mods would figure out the tens of accounts that came from my computer and noticed I was the writer of many fake stories.
It seems like that never happened, but come on, the only thing I used at the time was Firefox Containers to be able to sign up with a different account. Not even a VPN or any of that.
The Reddit Admins absolutely track IP addresses and browser ID numbers.
When Reddit got pissed that we were deleting our posted content and locking down the site they mass banned hundreds of the moderators including myself. They hit accounts I had not logged into since 2013 so they absolutely are tracking account connections.
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Doesn’t change your browser ID information. They still know it is you.
How would I go about finding out my browser ID?
i guess you can’t tell which metrics are tracked by which website but you can see the potential ones at https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
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No, subreddit moderators can’t, but the people who run the servers certainly can. Same goes on Lemmy, by the way: the operators of an instance can access that information via web server logs. In general, if you operate a web server, you absolutely can track the IP address information of any browser that connects to that web server. This is a fundamental requirement of TCP/IP; the server needs to see the client’s IP address in order to be able to serve the page.
Mods cannot access that kind of information, only admins.
There is way better way than IP to identify/track an user.
To my understanding,mods can’t see IP or any personal info, but admin can and data broker get a nice package oh data from your reddit
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Pretty much any server nowadays logs IPs, so they probably know who you are. It’s unlikely they’re going to do anything about it though.
