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Very recently a brand new account commented on my posts with that looked a lot like pictures of my house. The account is @WellWellWaldo@programming.dev, they deleted their account but not the media uploaded.

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[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

None of that is going to happen. IPs do not match with users 99.99% of the time, because of CGNAT and 99.99999% of users not paying for a static IP...and if they are, then they're not going to be dumb enough to not be on a VPN...on top of that, VPN companies don't keep logs. And not just for privacy reasons, keeping traffic logs of users is extremely expensive on storage and it's also a good way to get drug into court.

The Internet does not work like CSI