I think I finally reached my breaking point with reddit (about time). Earlier this month the humorless admins of /r/teslamotors banned me for posting a video of my custom charge port cover. A day or so later I mistakenly posted on the sub using my secondary account. That’s on me. The /r/teslamotors admins gave me a permaban and reddit gave me 7 day site ban. I can take my lumps so whatever.

However, apparently I commented today on /r/teslamotors using the account that received the permaban. Dumbass reddit gave me another 7 day site ban for ban evasion. WTF? Either a software bug allowed me to comment or /r/teslamotors lifted my ban for some reason.

Neither of those constitute ban evasion IMHO. I’m also tired of using old.reddit.com in phone browser since they killed apis.

      • bitchkat@lemmy.worldOP
        1·
        7 months ago

        There is no reason that the reddit client can’t get the MAC address and include that in a payload somewhere.

        • thecrotch@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          7 months ago

          Fine. Why would it? The device has a unique hardware ID that’s even easier/better for identifying the device. MAC addresses are randomized, and there’s at least 3 of them in any modern phone. Seems overly complicated and ineffective.

        • friendlymessage@feddit.de
          1·
          7 months ago

          Here’s one reason: access to MAC addresses is restricted to system apps since Android 6, since Android 11 it’s not available to third party apps at all

        • thecrotch@sh.itjust.works
          5·
          7 months ago

          Sure, and all of that goes out the window on a mobile app that doesn’t play by browser rules.

          This has nothing to do with browser rules. It’s how tcp/ip works.

          And 96% of reddit is on mobile

          And 100% of phones have a unique hardware ID visable to any app with the “read phone state” permission. Why the hell would anyone use a MAC address to identify you? And which MAC address would they use? The wifi nic? The mobile nic? The Bluetooth MAC?

          Idk about iPhones but MAC addresses on android are randomized by default. Maybe learn even the tiniest bit about what you’re talking about before you go calling people naive.