Fine. Why would it? The device has a unique hardware ID that’s even easier/better for identifying the device. MAC addresses are randomized, and there’s at least 3 of them in any modern phone. Seems overly complicated and ineffective.

Then don’t make me pay for it. That’s my intelligence, I bought it. So did you. What else do you pay for that you’re never allowed to see or even know about?

You don’t see how the military operating in darkness with no oversight has ended up in disaster time and time again?

Fine. They can hide the stuff they don’t force me to pay for. I have a right to know where my money is going.

I’m not saying they can’t track you. I’m saying the person who told you that they’re not doing it by MAC was right, and your reply was not only wrong but painfully self righteous for a guy who doesn’t know what he’s talking about about.

Also, changing your IP, clearing cookies, and installing a plugin that obfusticates your browser fingerprint ought to be enough. The second two are essentially what you did by blowing out your OS.

Still annoying but an improvement

Sure, and all of that goes out the window on a mobile app that doesn’t play by browser rules.

This has nothing to do with browser rules. It’s how tcp/ip works.

And 96% of reddit is on mobile

And 100% of phones have a unique hardware ID visable to any app with the “read phone state” permission. Why the hell would anyone use a MAC address to identify you? And which MAC address would they use? The wifi nic? The mobile nic? The Bluetooth MAC?

Idk about iPhones but MAC addresses on android are randomized by default. Maybe learn even the tiniest bit about what you’re talking about before you go calling people naive.

That’s not naivety it’s a basic understanding of how networking works

And fewer people quoting entire Simpsons episodes at each other line by line

Probably not much, her hand is on her thigh. Though I guess it’s possible that a goddess has articulated hair. If you zoom in on this chess piece her finger is clearly extended and going between her legs

Sometimes I see a nude depiction and wonder to myself if it’s artsy or pornographic. In this case she’s fingering herself, so that answers that question

He was originally fleeing rape charges in Sweden so yeah, he still would have had to hide.

And serial rapist, let’s not forget that

As a guy who was wearing Pink Floyd, Beatles, and Rush shirts in high school in the 90s I relate to these kids

She could also fly commercial, there’s no reason not to

And if he, a much bigger star, can reguarly ride a public bus around Manhattan without being mobbed I am confident that Taylor Swift could handle going through VIP checkin at Laguardia surrounded by armed security just like scores of other celebrities do.

Here’s a list of 8 of them.

https://www.thethings.com/stars-who-fly-commercial/

And here’s another list of 26 more

https://www.tmz.com/photos/image_jpg_20231020_8da245f0707046bfbaf7ceb51208e721/

He takes public city busses in NYC, London, and probably other places. Of course he’s not taking a city bus on tour with him it’s weird you would even imply that’s what I meant

https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/paul-mccartney-enjoys-taking-bus-find-grounding.html/

Idk how any of that is relevant. If Paul, at the height of his game, could ride a bus without being robbed then Taylor Swift can fly commercial with an entire airport’s worth of security watching her back

I think Paul McCartney is/was a much bigger star than taytay and has been taking busses his entire career

Exactly, she’s a victim. A victim of the life she chose and worked really hard to achieve. I bet she cries herself to sleep every night on her Scrooge McDuck style piles of cash.