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Next, they will stop allowing to register with random email without confirmation
Edit: jut found out they already did it lol. Then next step will be to require phone number for all new accounts
They used to not require email at all. Did that change?
A long time ago now, literally years and years ago.
So that's at least four.
Yes. They have been turning more and more restrictive
nahh, next is age verification :)
Yeah they did that a while ago, I think they even block temp emails (unsuccessfully)
I haven't been able to post to reddit in years now, because I refuse to browse it without a VPN, and while it still lets me in, any account that I make immediately gets shadowbanned as soon as I make a post or a comment.
I can't tell if it's because their bot filter is just terribly implemented, or because they don't want me on their platform if I don't surrender my public IP address.
I'm pretty sure they just use a "how many different accounts under the same public IP" type of logic, because even if I create an account on a 4G network (no VPN) and post, this happens. Cellular networks often use double NAT (unique internal/carrier IP, shared public IP) to avoid allocating a public IP to each mobile device.
I've given up a long time ago. My only exposure to reddit now is when a search results page links me to a post. The most helpful stuff is usually from a decade ago or earlier.