tomcatt360@lemmy.zip to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoGuess I'm banned by Know Your Meme now. [yippee.wav]lemmy.zipexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squarebassomitron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 days agoYeah, banning by IP from such a big website is pretty silly on the site admin’s part. Tons and tons of places share 1 to a small handful of IPs (e.g. apartment complexes, school dorms, etc).
minus-squareTaldan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 days agoReddit still uses IP bans. It’s crazy how far behind the times some tech companies are
minus-squareneukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 days agoAnd also a huge issue for anyone using a VPN to browse the web
minus-squarenogooduser@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 days agoAlso, most people don’t even have a static ip address so they might have banned a different location altogether and the banned ip address moved.
minus-squareJASN_DE@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 days agoAnd it’s still not worth the money and a lot easier to simply temp-ban via IP.
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Yeah, banning by IP from such a big website is pretty silly on the site admin’s part. Tons and tons of places share 1 to a small handful of IPs (e.g. apartment complexes, school dorms, etc).
Reddit still uses IP bans. It’s crazy how far behind the times some tech companies are
And also a huge issue for anyone using a VPN to browse the web
Also, most people don’t even have a static ip address so they might have banned a different location altogether and the banned ip address moved.
And it’s still not worth the money and a lot easier to simply temp-ban via IP.