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Re:Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experie... by lotsofpulp on Friday September 04, 2020 @06:28AM (#24373644)
Wouldn’t they know via fingerprinting your device via the device settings or IP?
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Re:Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experie... by fnord123 on Friday September 04, 2020 @06:51AM (#24373780)
They could but seeing how good Reddit's UI is, how good do you think their log scraping is? And do they have the budget for keeping all access logs of anonymous users so they can try to line up all the ChainLinkFence enthusiasts with the people who also frequent r/MarijuanaEnthusiasts and r/WhiteMenGoneWild.
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