Today around 12:00pm EDT, a post was uploaded to r/whenthe by u/concussionmaker_91 about how despite their multiple privacy measures, Reddit was still able to ping their location and show them an ad about a business in close proximity to their house. Then, in less than 2 hours after the post when live, their year old account was permanently banned. Redditors in the comment section used a website called SnooSnoop to see if this account has done anything malicious in the past that may be grounds for a ban only to find nothing.
I don’t think this is a mere coincidence and some comments I read on the post may be there to dismiss the situation.
I’m currently working on archiving the post and comments in case Reddit decides to try and erase this entire situation from the web, I’ll attach the files when I do.
Fix: Everytime you go to use a VPN, you delete any browsing data, ideally even start an entirely new vm, with a privacy friendly browser. Also gotta make sure to use an operating system that can’t be so easily fingerprinted, along with the computers hardware. So the only real easy answer is Whonix.
Doesnt bejng so difficult to properly fingerprint just leave a trail of anomalous fingerprints to follow?
Like, I know its not the same but you can identify people from their silhouette, you don’t need a photo of their face. Paint around a subject well enough and it becomes clear even if you never add it to the image.
I guess what I’m asking is, does it leave a Clean Enough hole that people can tell what should be there?
Is your question rhetorical? I remember reading before that Facebook was creating shadow accounts for people that didn’t have actual accounts. They would build a user based on everything they could track, even attaching presumed names.