if you are ip banned from a website and then have your ip changed then what stops someone being assigned your old ip and not having access to that website?
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They could tie it to your MAC address, but those can also be changed/spoofed. I’d assume they would use a combination of IP, geographic location, browser, and hardware.
Point is, banning is really just an inconvenience #dontbeatroll
Absolutely nothing. I have been to a website that i could not acess because the IP was banned long before i had gotten there.
Depends on how the ip was blocked. If you’re maliciously attacking Reddit.com they may block your ip and if someone were to get that ip later they would probably be unable to access Reddit
However if Reddit legally gets the isp involved they could some more advanced blocking that would be tied to more than your ip
IP addresses are often dynamic so if you want to ban an individual user it’s rarely the way to go. Some companies will ban IP ranges to reduce the impact of bots. There are other ways to identify a user including cookies and other information provided by the browser. Check out [https://amiunique.org/](https://amiunique.org/) to see how easily identifiable you are!
if the ban is only based on the IP then nothing. if they ban a certain IP, then that IP is banned. but sometimes the ban is not IP based, but based on say some cookies or some other fingerprint you leave behind when you visit the website, or the ban may expire after sometime.
Absolutely nothing. This is why IP bans are considered useless and harmful by anyone who knows what they’re doing.
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