It's about doxxing via your IP linked to your reddit account IP so they can go through your post history and find out who you are. Remember what CNN did? Same thing. By having a reference to you, should you ever rise to power or the forefront of media then they can pull shit out on you. All via IP.
I get your practicality and reference to IP being just a basic item but in this case the OP is correct.
Any site you visit knows your IP. It’s not very valuable overall but if you want to see if multiple user (shill) accounts originate from the same IP or IP range (possibly indicating coming from the same business or institution), it can be enough to get you banned.
Liberal Account A comes here and gets banned. Liberal Account B comes and is acting sorta bit hush, the admin could compare the IP captured from visitor A and see if it has the same IP as accounT B and then ban B for circumventing van policy. This is how Reddit works and it’s all automated. There are tons of caveats and ways around it but that’s the discussion in a nutshell.
Subscribe to a VPN service. You can then set your IP to one of their servers. It's a good idea to be using a VPN in general while web surfing, but really it's not something I would worry about in the scenario being described here.
That's my point, they would need to run the site or be admins in order to do that kind of analysis. I doubt many of Reddit's admins are on here trying to track users. That's just very unlikely.
In order for your theory to be valid, 2 external sites need to share the IP database and create a compare analysis tool in order to decide whether or not to ban you. But that already defeats the purpose if most people already visit popular social networks all day. No reason to hide facebook or twitter links behind short urls.... also there's no point in hiding unknown websites behind shorturl's in order to harvest IP's, since you would probably visit those sites once in a lifetime, and like i said in the beggining, it would only be effective if they shared IP database with another website (which you will barely visit to begin with) and they will decide whether or not to ban you. But ban you from what? It's irrelevant. Your assumption is not smart and it's pretty dumb in my opinion.
What you're basically saying is not really what OP is saying, in that "be careful of the shorturl's because they capture your IP's".... capturing your IP's doesnt do anything if every website already does it automatically on the server side.
I don't think you know how the internet really works, or how smart criminals would use these tools to their advantage.
You know you can educate us and clear up any misinformation without attacking people personally. When you insist on doing that for not reason it makes you look like a lefty. At the end of the day you've done nothing to set anyone straight.
Did he help you? I dont know anything more than that he claims to have worked in security, is an expert, and that people who think otherwise are "morons". You can start a conversation witouth that. I know for one I haven't developed any more understanding because of their post. I'd say they've just shown themselves not to be very bright and therefore suspect as to having relevant knowledge. Going straight the personal attacks is typically what a leftist does when they don't know what they are talking about or can't win an argument. It's also what 2 year olds do.
Also guys don't post personally identifiable information unless you are totally sure it can't get back to you in a bad way or you just don't care. This was always rule #1 on the Internet back in the 80s and 90s
This is why security is an unsolved problem. Because people like you design hostile User Interfaces and then blame anybody who hasn’t made security their full time job, and now you’re so filled with rage you refuse to help anybody.
Incorrect and you are rude and a bad example of our community.
How is it that reddit bans people when they get banned then turn around and make another account to circumvent the ban? You think it's magic? It's simple IP tracking. Can you please tell me another method they would use?
"your posting history and your IP have fuck all to do with each other unless the scary fucker has already cracked the site or is an admin"
Isn't is a fair assumption that reddit (and other) admins are not to be trusted? Beyond that though, serious question. I think running through a VPN helps in most cases. Would you agree? I've been coding for 30 years but more on the "behind the firewall" side of things and internet security is not a forte.
It's about doxxing via your IP linked to your reddit account IP so they can go through your post history and find out who you are. Remember what CNN did? Same thing. By having a reference to you, should you ever rise to power or the forefront of media then they can pull shit out on you. All via IP.
I get your practicality and reference to IP being just a basic item but in this case the OP is correct.
How would they know your IP address on reddit though?
Any site you visit knows your IP. It’s not very valuable overall but if you want to see if multiple user (shill) accounts originate from the same IP or IP range (possibly indicating coming from the same business or institution), it can be enough to get you banned.
Liberal Account A comes here and gets banned. Liberal Account B comes and is acting sorta bit hush, the admin could compare the IP captured from visitor A and see if it has the same IP as accounT B and then ban B for circumventing van policy. This is how Reddit works and it’s all automated. There are tons of caveats and ways around it but that’s the discussion in a nutshell.
If you change your IP address, does that do it? Then you can create a new account and reddit won't know?
If so, what's the easiest way to change it?
Subscribe to a VPN service. You can then set your IP to one of their servers. It's a good idea to be using a VPN in general while web surfing, but really it's not something I would worry about in the scenario being described here.
That's my point, they would need to run the site or be admins in order to do that kind of analysis. I doubt many of Reddit's admins are on here trying to track users. That's just very unlikely.
In order for your theory to be valid, 2 external sites need to share the IP database and create a compare analysis tool in order to decide whether or not to ban you. But that already defeats the purpose if most people already visit popular social networks all day. No reason to hide facebook or twitter links behind short urls.... also there's no point in hiding unknown websites behind shorturl's in order to harvest IP's, since you would probably visit those sites once in a lifetime, and like i said in the beggining, it would only be effective if they shared IP database with another website (which you will barely visit to begin with) and they will decide whether or not to ban you. But ban you from what? It's irrelevant. Your assumption is not smart and it's pretty dumb in my opinion.
What you're basically saying is not really what OP is saying, in that "be careful of the shorturl's because they capture your IP's".... capturing your IP's doesnt do anything if every website already does it automatically on the server side.
I don't think you know how the internet really works, or how smart criminals would use these tools to their advantage.
You know you can educate us and clear up any misinformation without attacking people personally. When you insist on doing that for not reason it makes you look like a lefty. At the end of the day you've done nothing to set anyone straight.
Chill out friend the guy is just trying to help. It started the conversation and I'm glad he did. Now I know not to worry thanks to your post. Thanks
Did he help you? I dont know anything more than that he claims to have worked in security, is an expert, and that people who think otherwise are "morons". You can start a conversation witouth that. I know for one I haven't developed any more understanding because of their post. I'd say they've just shown themselves not to be very bright and therefore suspect as to having relevant knowledge. Going straight the personal attacks is typically what a leftist does when they don't know what they are talking about or can't win an argument. It's also what 2 year olds do.
Also guys don't post personally identifiable information unless you are totally sure it can't get back to you in a bad way or you just don't care. This was always rule #1 on the Internet back in the 80s and 90s
This is why security is an unsolved problem. Because people like you design hostile User Interfaces and then blame anybody who hasn’t made security their full time job, and now you’re so filled with rage you refuse to help anybody.
Incorrect and you are rude and a bad example of our community.
How is it that reddit bans people when they get banned then turn around and make another account to circumvent the ban? You think it's magic? It's simple IP tracking. Can you please tell me another method they would use?
And I rest my case.
Sounds like you are a black hat, steer clear of this one gentlemen.
"your posting history and your IP have fuck all to do with each other unless the scary fucker has already cracked the site or is an admin"
Isn't is a fair assumption that reddit (and other) admins are not to be trusted? Beyond that though, serious question. I think running through a VPN helps in most cases. Would you agree? I've been coding for 30 years but more on the "behind the firewall" side of things and internet security is not a forte.
That's pretty fair. I try not to go overboard, but I don't want to make it too easy for any retard I triggered to come after my company either.
Have a great night:)