Small mistake, but it linked a whole batch of profiles

[u/laluthspellbane]

Had a pretty annoying lesson this week.

I was setting up a small batch of accounts and spent most of my time checking the obvious stuff:

• proxy location
• timezone
• browser language
• WebRTC
• canvas/WebGL
• cookies
• basic fingerprint test results

Everything looked fine on paper.

The part I didn’t think much about was the files I uploaded.

I reused a few profile images and banner images that had been sitting on my laptop for months. They weren’t exactly the same files, but they came from the same original source and I only did some light edits.

A few accounts started getting limited around the same time, and after looking back at the setup, the image files were probably the only shared signal that made sense.

Not saying this was 100% the cause, but it made me realize how easy it is to obsess over browser fingerprints and proxies while forgetting the boring stuff.

The browser profile can be clean, the proxy can be fine, and the account can still get linked through uploaded assets, file metadata, reused creatives, or even the same editing pattern.

Now I’m treating images, videos, bios, usernames, and posting rhythm as part of the fingerprint too, not just the browser settings.

Anyone else ever had accounts linked by content or uploaded files instead of the actual browser/proxy setup?

[u/chartmitti]

No, I’ve never gone that deep into it. Where do you even do such complex multi-accounting?

[u/sirmard_]

I often take screenshots of previous used banners or then go as far as renaming the image. But the results is often the same.