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Let's say I was banned from a website, and I want to create a new account and use it without the 2 accounts being linked.
What else can I do ? Can they detect my router's MAC, or network card MAC?
yossi
Posted 2015-10-20T08:33:32.567
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MAC addresses are used for internal routing, your MAC address is forgotten after it reaches your router, your routers MAC address is forgotten after it reaches the next hop (I.e. the one shown in tracert/traceroute).
Your steps should be enough, you probably don't have to change browser, just wipe cookies.
Jack
Posted 2015-10-20T08:33:32.567
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Correct on the MAC address. However wrong on the browser. In fact, a lot of information can be deduced from "using the same browser" - depends how savvy the website owners are: https://panopticlick.eff.org/ - screen resolution, plugins (not extensions), even what fonts are installed on your PC can uniquely identify you.
– qasdfdsaq – 2015-10-20T10:55:52.827I said probably because browser fingerprinting is usually for targeted advertising than for enforcing bans, but it could. – Jack – 2015-10-20T11:03:25.153
1Depends who's doing the banning I suppose :-P – qasdfdsaq – 2015-10-20T11:04:11.343
1Use tor, and wonder why you were banned at first place. – Archemar – 2015-10-20T08:44:24.587
2That's a very very relevant question. – Journeyman Geek – 2015-10-20T08:55:56.113
This depends on how the website is designed. Realistically a browser will never submit your MAC address. If the website was a Java applet then it could outside of that
HTML5andJavascriptdon't have that capability. Of course there is a ton of information that Javascript does have access to and most browser fingerprinting is done in Javascript. – Ramhound – 2015-10-20T11:14:03.740This question seems to be walking a fine line between "How does (how can) this technology work?" (on topic) and "How can I violate the Terms of Service of this website (which I agreed to obey)?" (off topic). – Scott – 2015-10-21T04:22:05.577