• Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    I 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.

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      1 year ago

      Not sure that existed, but how would it work? There were no accounts and IPs are ephemeral.

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        1 year 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⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯.