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.
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?
Its funny how much redditors care about privacy til its reddit tracking your identity through hella different ways
I hate it too. I managed to get around it, but apparently they’ve gotten better.
Tbh, if Lemmy wasn’t so small, shitty and had the niche communities, I wouldn’t use reddit. But reddit does have those niche communities, so I’m stuck.
yeah I already rent a vps so I might throw a browser on there and use a browser over the browser if I need it, I kind of prefer not commenting/posting now tho