A couple months ago my account was permabanned (was not provided a reason) from the site and I have since been trying to make a new one. The problem is though that every single time I make a new account, it is either instantly suspended or suspended a couple hours later. So far I have tried: -Unplugging my router for a few minutes to change my IP -Clearing all of my cookies -Making the account on a very old device (which has never logged into Reddit before) -Using a brand new email -Making the account on Duckduckgo which has encrypted connections
Mind you, I did all of these together, at the same time, and Reddit still was able to instantly link my account to it. Is there a single thing I can possibly do to avoid this ban and make a new account? It seems like Reddit has like CIA-level technology that is somehow able to track me regardless of how many ludicrous holes I try to jump through.
I was in the same boat and it wasn’t even my fault. Someone else was banned and I quoted what was banned. I asked people if that’s the way that person was banned . Then, the next day I was banned.
I appealed and there was no answer. I am so tired of it.
I don’t understand why they ban with such insane scrutiny. There are people on major platforms like YouTube that continue to make money even after dodging bans, and yet Reddit seemingly has like the most heavily enforced ban system on the internet for a website that is literally for shitposting and asking for advice.
Making the account on a very old device (which has never logged into Reddit before)
Did you continue using your account only on that device? If so, did you continue using reddit logged-out on your main device at the same time?
Just give it up, she ain’t coming back
It’s just a shuffling zombie now.
You’re already on Lemmy, just help build this to be what you are missing on Reddit.
Lol second one of these today…
Anyway, welcome to lesson 101 on why privacy is important haha
But reddit won’t permit you to have non KYCed account anymore this has been the case for one or two years now.
Hence why many freedm enjoyers don’t even bother there anymore.
What do you mean by KYC’d?
KYC = know your customer
There laws imposed on businesses esp banks that require them to do basic diligence on who they serve. Ie can’t be banking cartels and terrorists
In this context, reddit won’t let you have an account unless they can tie it to an identity. This is my opinion based on my own experiences along with stories like OP.
Classic tool used for KYC for online services is your phone number but an email will work to if you use a lot.
Why do you even want to? Reddit is going the way of Yahoo Answers.
Making the account on Duckduckgo which has encrypted connections
if you mean the DuckDuckGo browser, then it doesn’t do anything other browsers don’t do by default to hide your identity. you’re still showing up as using the same IP address as when using other browsers.
Accept that they’re just not into you and move on. You make it sound like you’re somehow entitled to using their service and they have made it clear they don’t want you there.
If you do something as egregious on Lemmy and get banned you have the luxury of joining a different instance bingo, bongo.
Unfortunately, like me, you accept that reddit is a mess and you let it go
I’m waiting for Digg to come back to life
Why… Fedi ain’t cutting it?
Frankly, no
There’s so little engagement here
True this ain’t a social major but it is green.
Do you expect digg to hit critical mass quickly?
I have no idea
People are getting very sick of reddit though
Roll up a VM. Personally I use virtual box with xubuntu. Use it for nothing but reddit.
So I actually took this advice and did exactly that. Booted up VirtualBox and ran an Ubuntu client and made my Reddit account and it got banned within 5 hours. Now every other account I make on any other virtual machine, regardless of operating system gets banned within an hour
That’s strange. They shouldn’t be able to tell two VMs are related. At best, that they’re coming from the same house hold. Did you manage to get your house IP banned?
Did you say anything on the 9 hour account that might have warranted a permaban? Anything that would have gotten a lot of reports?
I had my very first post falsely flagged for being fake and taken down by mods which probably led to that first permaban. Also, I don’t know if there’s a difference in like IPs or whatnot, because I checked and both virtual machines I made had different IPs that were on different sides of the country. Do they both still belong to the same ‘house IP’?
They shouldn’t. They also check against user agents, browser extensions, and view window size, and probably a bunch of other identifing marks. Maybe it’s picking up on those?
