Being tracked by Voat (Conspiracy)

submitted ago by Moreofthesame

Denied - Vote has already been registered for device (Submission Vote Identity 2.7)

So I have two user names.

I innocently used the second user name and clicked on a news article up vote and got: Denied - Vote has already been registered for device (Submission Vote Identity 2.7)

So. I use linux, Firefox and have browser cookies set to auto delete when the browser closes. I also have a city wide IP address. So it is not on my IP address.

So. I closed the browser and checked cookies. Zero cookies are listed. So how does Voat know and give Denied - Vote has already been registered for device (Submission Vote Identity 2.7)

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NoTrueScotsman ago

It's IP. Another member of my household has an account, and we run into this error all the time when we are both on the wifi. Separate accounts, different browsers, different devices.

Moreofthesame ago

The IP address use is for a city of a couple of million people. So, na not really

NoTrueScotsman ago

How did you figure that out? I think you're mistaken, since IPs are generated for each device that connects to a network, such as a phone on 4g, or a home modem (so all devices connected through it share one IP).