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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

They‘re useful for a very short amount of time and add frustration for the spammer but yes, the downsides are large as well.

If a person knows how to change their ip after being banned, they probably dont use a normal browser either, dont you think? Or have I missed something about browser fingerprinting? You can post to lemmy over an api, right?