If we read into it there are probably a few ways to identify devices. For me the line between personally identifying your device and personally identifying you is pretty blurred.
if you use a simple VPN even just Chrome's it negates the whole thing. still, it's fucking weird that the devs have access and actually act on your IP
I doubt just a VPN is enough to keep those in the know from identifying you.
It's up to the admins to decide on site policy - and if they want to come down hard on alts, I'm not necessarily against that. However, being able to reliably identify alts implies a lot of prying into what you might have assumed was hidden. I would rather they be upfront about the information they're collecting on users and the implications for user privacy.
well you probably use the same stuff voat uses because I've just ran into the device identifier you most likely use there.
@smallpond check this out, they must use the same system to identify "devices"