After getting randomly banned on a subreddit (without breaking any of the rules) and accidentally posting on there with a different account, Reddit permanently banned me from their site. Appealing the ban didn’t work.

Now, as soon as I create a new Reddit account it gets automatically suspended either immediately or after a few minutes to sometimes hours.

I assume many on Lemmy face similar situations and also switched to Lemmy because of a similar reason and they might also wonder how to bypass such a ban.

It seems like Reddit is using advanced fingerprinting since normal methods such as switching VPN, deleting and re-installing the browser/Reddit mobile app (including all associated data) and changing email doesn’t work.

I’m not skilled enough and don’t really have any “hacker knowledge” to bypass the ban. After extensive research I couldn’t find a better solution than getting a new device or formatting the whole device.

I assume there must be a better way of changing ones fingerprint without just fully formatting the devices. Maybe it could work by changing the MAC address or something?

My goal is to not have a complicated way of accessing Reddit and resolving the issue in a way that one can access it completely normally again like in my case with the Chrome/Edge browser on Windows, Safari on Mac, and the Reddit app on Android.

Maybe someone has the knowledge here to help with this.

  • Draconic NEO@lemmy.world
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    Reddit uses browser cookies to identify people uniquely, they do that in addition to using the IP address associated which they may not always use to initiate a ban of the account.

    Use a browser like Mullvad browser with a VPN or Tor browser to create and access a new account.

    Also never use the Reddit official app, it has way more trackers than possible in a browser including a VPN bypasser built-in.

    Also and this might be obvious, don’t use an email associated with any previous accounts. That’s a low hanging fruit they target easily.

    • Like the wind...@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      I’ve gotten away with Gmail “+”

      Like for example if beholdatokeneffort@gmail.com was banned, beholdatokeneffort+zzz@gmail.com would still work lol