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okasaki
on Feb 17, 2014
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Whatever happened to the IPv4 address crisis?
Why not use something else to ban users in this case? For example the user agent, browser window resolution, installed fonts, etc.
Buge
on Feb 17, 2014
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Those can all be changed. A determined spammer could make a bot that automatically changes them.
alexandros
on Feb 17, 2014
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Whereas an IP can't be trivially masked?
Buge
on Feb 17, 2014
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Most free proxies are already blocked on wikipedia. Finding more once yours have been block I don't think is very easy.
Browser configurations can be easily generated by a computer and you never run out.
DrStalker
on Feb 18, 2014
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Does Wikipedia block editing from AWS IPs?
herokusaki
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I assume a browser fingerprint of the right granularity is hard to change for someone who would vandalize Wikipedia without a proxy.
einhverfr
on Feb 18, 2014
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Because vandals never use different browsers? ;-)
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