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submitted 11 months ago by Rocky60@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

If it blocks your IP, wouldn’t everyone who came to your house get banned as long as they’re using your Wi-Fi?

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[-] Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 15 points 11 months ago

In general, ISP would sell a fixed IP adress as a fancy option, just unplug/replug your modem a couple of time and you'll get a new IP. As very few ISP don't offer IP6 yet another fancy option they have to pool their IP adresses among their customer

This make IP ban pretty unreliable, and there is way better way to identify a single user even in private browsing

this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2023
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