Looks like it’s not going to be just old Reddit anymore

  • Crankenstein@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Cause reddit doesn’t ban the account, they are banning you, the user. So all alt accounts get flagged as “attempted ban avoidance”.

    To circumvent this you have to do a bit of legwork to ensure the new account has nothing linked back to any other account to avoid getting flagged, and reddit logs a ton of your user data, so mostly it isn’t even worth the effort.

    • endbringer@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      Nah. You just have to wait a bit. They detect it and ban you again if you create another account right away, but after a while they stop. Either it clears or they stop giving a shit.

      • Crankenstein@lemmy.world
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        Was banned over a year ago. I still cannot make a new account with getting flagged within a week even if I only stick to commenting on niche game subs. I know cause I just tried again a month or two ago to try and post some questions on the sub for Nivalis Nights when that came out. Reddit sitewide bans are for life and they do not delete the telemetry metrics they kept on you.

        If I wanted a new reddit account, I’d have to use a different device on a different network to both create a new email and the new account itself to avoid the telemetry metrics that reddit logs and make sure to never log into that account from any device or network that was used with the banned account or else it gets flagged.

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          1 day ago

          Hmm, well that has always worked for me as recently as this month. Though I find it’s more likely to happen if you log in through the app.

    • Ninja876@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I got around it, it wasn’t that hard. Just a fresh user account on my network and I was in like Flynn. And to add while using a Protos email address.

      They have something in working in the background that id’s you more than the usual. I suspect pixel or something of the sort.