Someone posted in r/waymo a video of someone covering all the cameras with tape, which apparently immobilizes the self driving car. I interpreted that as non dangerous to actual people since it keep the car from moving at all.
Anyway, everyone in the comments was a circle jerk saying Waymo should come after the person legally. I suggested that big tech like Google and Uber may do more unethical things than this person putting some tape on a self driving car. Never did I once threaten violence lol.
Flagged for using light mode
Bruh it’s daytime. I actually do all my coding in dark mode but I’m starting to think using dark mode durning the day is straining my vision
I got this same warning because I was discussing the color of a shirt. And my phone auto corrected violet into violence. I used the form to report a false flag and got a two week ban. All automated with no human input on their end.
The future is bleak as the ai cant interpret context.
Future isn’t bleak on Lemmy! Hopefully this just pushes more people off Reddit. People deserve better
It kind of is though?
Essentially no protections for operators from bots, which means no protection for communities from automated infiltration and astroturfing.
The only thing stopping it is that the cost/benefit isn’t there yet with how small Lemmy is. But that’s slowly changing.
There are captchas but I suppose you could work around that easily by having a human sign up and offloading the account to a bot. If it really became a problem I’m sure Lemmy could adapt, but it could involve similar fingerprinting techniques to Reddit. Lemmy being petty privacy conscious would likely hate that. But I say we solve one problem at a time. Bots aren’t an issue yet.
God no. Bots are already better at solving Captchas than humans are. The only use case for captchas is to do what 4chan did and make every post require a captcha and then charge a fee to bypass them.
At least you got a Warning. My Reddit Account was banned permanently for No reason and i cant make new ones because they to get baned. But tbh i dont care About Reddit anymore
Is it based on IP? If they ban me permanently was just going to create a new account via VPN or from my local coffee shop WiFi. But I also don’t really care if they delete my account.
It is IP and they also do browser fingerprinting. After I got banned I made like 10 accounts and they all got banned no matter what IP I used to sign up. Finally I totally switched IP, browser, OS, everything and managed to sign up an account that didn’t get banned.
I use my reddit account much more strategically now, rather than just hang out there and post comments about whatever. If I’m spending my time and effort, I try to make sure it’s really actually important to me and worth it knowing that my contribution is also helping that shitty company / platform.
I also deleted every comment from 10+ years on my now banned account.
yea everything as to be different, different IP, and device. they also look time zone, components, posting behaviour and pattern, plus the writing style.
Look out for the reddit “kill” cookie that will linger in your browser
Interesting. I wonder if it’s as simple as deleting one cookie. Someone else suggested Reddit does more sophisticated finger printing. I suspect that cookie is only one component of your digital fingerprint. It’s really just a question of how badly Reddit wants to keep people banned and how much resources they’re willing to pour into enforcing the ban.
Cookies are just one thing that can linger. I’ve also seen people not delete a reddit extension in their browser which also immediately identifies you
Check out https://fingerprint.com/. I’m not saying Reddit does this, but there are tons of datapoints they can use to fingerprint you. From what I remember, you can instruct HTML canvas to draw something and you can uniquely identify the person based on micro differences in the drawing. These differences are due to the users unique graphics rendering pipeline (e.g. browsers graphics APIs, operating system, graphics drivers, GPU). Ok so you turn off JavaScript. You can still fingerprint someone using a bunch of CSS tricks.
thats what reddit likely uses.
I created one Account on the train WiFi and it got banned one day later. No Post No comments So idk
Did you connect to your banned IP address later? Probably not worth figuring out but I’m curious. There are so many ways to fingerprint people, so it’s entirely possible they collect a fingerprint from your browser and use that to match you to the banned account.
I used the Account on my Home WiFi but fun fact thats Not the Network i used when i got the original ban
Well you are clearly a terrible person I hope you understand that now
Damn it, you’re right. Thank you Reddit for setting me straight.
In all seriousness I’m feeling a lot better about my decision to move to Lemmy
So if I’m understanding stuff like this correctly, it’s R being on the side of big business and user exploitation, etc, but not being willing to actually admit that, and thus, all these bogus ‘threatening violence’ charges.
Maybe part of what their exec team learned from two summers ago is to just STFU publicly, meanwhile letting their AI grind down legitimate critique / dissent.
Good job!
Libs/capitalists regularly conflate violence with expropriation. For example protests are often called violent based on “property damage” even if no people are injured. Similarly from this perspective it’s violence to put tape on car, etc. and it’s threatening violence to promote this online. I’m not saying this is a good ideology but it’s popular on reddit.
That makes sense. But in this specific case the tape can easily be removed. The only damage is to Waymo’s revenue on that specific car.
Best part is when they go from warning you to suspending you within a few hours for the same “incident,” it can happen. IP banned for life baby
That can happen? I’ve only ever been banned outright. One time it was for quoting Captain America.
What was the quote?
Congrats; I got my first warning in years yesterday just for it to instantly turn into a perma ban, lol.
