# How do you find duplicate accounts **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-you-find-duplicate-accounts/375185 **Category:** Community Building **Created:** [July 22, 2025, 3:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-you-find-duplicate-accounts/375185 "2025-07-22T03:44:34Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK) #### Post date: [July 22, 2025, 4:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-you-find-duplicate-accounts/375185/2 "2025-07-22T04:37:14Z")
We rely solely on the sockpuppet setting on Meta, which uses IP. If that’s not working for you, there is this experimental option: > [@Discourse Fingerprint - Browser Fingerprinting Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fingerprint-browser-fingerprinting-plugin/114890): > > [Discourse Fingerprint](https://github.com/udan11/discourse-fingerprint) paw_printsDiscourse Fingerprint comes as a tool to community managers in their combat with internet trolls. troll It works by computing a unique identifier (a fingerprint) of each registered user, by taking into consideration over 20 browser characteristics such as user agent, screen resolution, timezone, device memory, etc. When each of these browser characteristics are considered separately, they are not enough to assess whether two users are the same. There is a re… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-you-find-duplicate-accounts/375185)._