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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? ;-)