Is there a way to ban someone based on their unique browser signature?

Theoretically. But what if they use a non-unique browser?

Or change browsers?

Or resize their browser window.

Or 100 other things.

[–] GreenTreeFrog [OP] 0 points (+0|-0)

How probable is it that you would have a user who is capable of doing that? Them being able to ununique themselves would tell you a lot about them.

I have seen that even with resizing windows to the standard some people don't ununique themselves.

[–] xyzzy 2 points (+2|-0)

If you use(or spoof) torbrowser or a corporate installation which has been cloned a few thousand times, it should be easy.

[–] GreenTreeFrog [OP] 0 points (+0|-0)

Which tells you the user can TOR or that they work for a big corp. It would stop the casuals. You can't stop that 4chan hackerman, lol.

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[–] pembo210 4 points (+4|-0)

Yes. Browser fingerprinting scans your browser for info like what version you're using and what extensions you have installed. It then generates a number based on that info. The generated number doesn't tell you anything about the user, it doesn't go backwards, but it can tell if they are using more than one account on the site.

[–] KillBill 3 points (+3|-0)

Or you can have 20 tor users all voting the same way. If the person is reasonably smart they will often vote different ways on the same post with different users, except, of course, when it really matters.

[–] CDanger 3 points (+3|-0)

All easily spoofed/randomized though.

Is there a way to ban someone based on their unique browser signature?

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