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.
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.