• hector@lemmy.today
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    9 days ago

    I got a violation, a second one I think, a 3 day ban, at which point I abandon accounts and never log in again, 1 year back, for suggesting Musk be aboard one of his spaceships. That’s it. I guess in the context of them blowing up all the time it’s a call for violence, which is how they labelled it. I quit for a couple of months before starting another account, between them right now too, went through like 4 last year, while I took at least 4 months off.

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        8 days ago

        I haven’t been on in a month now. But it’s weird, I had cleared cookies dozens of times, looking for links to streaming a show, as search engines are enshitified and no longer provide them, I found a reddit page a couple of times, it looked like I was logged in somehow, anyway a third time I came back to one of their pages, not having logged in, and set up so I had to type my username to log in, its not automatic, I checked and somehow I was logged in.

        For a month? How did that happen? I closed and cleared cookies and checked back and it didn’t log me in automatically.

        How could that possibly have happened? Is it hacked? Was it logged in for a month, despite clearing the cookies like every day?

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          8 days ago

          In the bad old days where I was forced to make spyware in exchange for a white collar paycheque, we used to make things called “supercookies” that used basically any fingerprint, storage, glitches of a browser to store a token or otherwise identify you with or without identity

          We had something like 98% confidence even if you had no cookies, based on just using JS to eyeball your browser and probing it.

          Not saying its a “supercookie” but the internet is funny like that. The current bleeding edge of it seems to be abusing favicon caches