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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.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 hours ago

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?

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just give it up, she ain't coming back

[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 2 points 9 hours ago

It's just a shuffling zombie now.

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

You're already on Lemmy, just help build this to be what you are missing on Reddit.

[–] modernangel@sh.itjust.works 4 points 23 hours ago

Why do you even want to? Reddit is going the way of Yahoo Answers.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 9 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

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.

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why... Fedi ain't cutting it?

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Frankly, no

There's so little engagement here

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Roll up a VM. Personally I use virtual box with xubuntu. Use it for nothing but reddit.

[–] BingoBongo1942@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com 2 points 4 hours ago

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?