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by lysium 37 days ago
This only shuts down the account you have bought in the first, plus a few others if it is shared.

> Use any metadata to identify related accounts

How does that work? I think this is the most important part to have an impact on the „thousand“ bot accounts.

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Rather than go after accounts, you’d go after the hosting facilities. The hosting companies are more likely to be able to identify related accounts so working with them will give more scalable results.
They probably will route you through different accounts. So with a single account you should be able to hit hundreds-thousands of accounts.
Especially if you did this in a sting-like manner and used subtle compound UIDs (read: unique combinations of innocuous words) then banned every account found at a later time.