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Why not use something else to ban users in this case? For example the user agent, browser window resolution, installed fonts, etc.

• Buge 13y ago
  Those can all be changed. A determined spammer could make a bot that automatically changes them.
  • alexandros 13y ago
    Whereas an IP can't be trivially masked?
    • Buge 13y ago
      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 13y ago
        Does Wikipedia block editing from AWS IPs?
  • herokusaki 13y ago
    I assume a browser fingerprint of the right granularity is hard to change for someone who would vandalize Wikipedia without a proxy.
    • einhverfr 13y ago
      Because vandals never use different browsers? ;-)