AliExpress Detects Repeat Users Despite Tor, New Email & Payment – How Are They Tracking Me?

Hello everyone.

One of the sites where I place orders as a new user manages to identify that I make repeat orders that receive a discount. I use the TOR browser , latest version with Windows 11 64bit. The account email is hotmail\gmail and it is a new email every time. Even though I place an order and do not use the same credit details, not the address.
The orders are canceled after an hour or two. Out of 10 orders, only one or two orders go through. I place orders from the AliExpress website. Different orders from different stores. One order for each store. I suspect that the site manages to identify the use of the browser. Even though I open and close the browser with each new order. The order still closes.
I noticed that the user agent always remains the same every time I open the browser, maybe that is why they are able to identify that I am the same user?
Maybe another reason? A certain resolution? Identification of the time set on the computer? What can I do to prevent the site from identifying me?

Thanks

I don’t have your answer but maybe you could clarify this for someone who may have a clue.

The account email is hotmail\gmail and it is a new email every time. Even though I place an order and do not use the same credit details, not the address.

My interpretation of this statement is that you DO use the same address. (double negative not…not). I can only read what I see. I must be wrong because it is then really too obvious.

The other question I have is why would AliExpress cancel any order if the credit info is valid. They are there to sell, sell, sell. If the credit info is being accepted then they can ship to anywhere in the world. Why would they care that it is you again over Tor coming from a different country and using a different credit ID. They are there to sell, sell, sell.

So what type of credit info do you use and what type of shipping address do you use?

I’m excluding all the tariff nonsense going on now.

Edited a bit later:
I forgot to mention that we all have the same user agent, assuming a vanilla Tor browser, so that’s not it.

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