You get perm banned. You delete your account. You wait 6 months with zero interaction with the reddit site. You clean out all the reddit cookies in your browser. You delete any reddit extensions that you may have in your browser. You use a different email for verification. But you still use your original IP. Anyone ever try this?
the other ways, are using a new IP address and a new device. they also look at posting pattern, writing style, any similar posts you may have done. browser fingerprinting is huge, component. the more you spam or create a large number of accounts, the harder it is to bypass it… and then you are getting to more expensive territory, purchasing accounts, proxies,anti-detect browsers, this is meant for people earning an income from haivng large amounts of accounts.
using the same IP, reddit easily links all your accounts together. thats why you either use a different IP and a new device, and to further enhance that, dont use the same browser.
reddit is also getting more sophisticated into detecting some of the more expensive methods i mentioned.
It’s like they don’t actually WANT a user base
FACEBOOK 2.0
Not only would the IP address already get ya, but reddit is also known to use fingerprinting techniques to get ya.
Small plug, I made a site to check this: bscan.info
Jesus Christ I was not aware of how much data they could gather on me just through internet connection. Even my fucking battery level?
This website is super impressive though, is there a function on here to be able to tell if I’ve been blacklisted or IP banned on websites like Reddit? How can I actually utilize this to dodge a ban effectively?
Yep, it’s kinda scary isn’t it. The battery thing seems to be blocked by default on firefox and safari tho.
The website can show you what is leaked, it can not fix it for you unfortunately. Though the browser I link there does legitimately work. But alternatives like brave and the likes also do a great job.
And the feature to see if you are IP banned or blacklisted would be very hard to implement as reddit isn’t transparent about how they block people. So the only way to figure out is to make an account.
Seems like an awful lot of effort for very little reward.
I was just curious if there is a period of time that passes before their system basically purges “banned” IP’s. They can’t possibly have specific IP’s that are forever banned
There are less than 4 billion valid public IPv4 addresses. At 4 bytes per address, a table of banned IP addresses is no more than 16 GB, which is child’s play to store these days.
You can compress it further and make a lookup table with 1 bit per public IP address (because you plan on banning a lot of IPs) and the size is reduced by 32x, to 512 MB. Now they can store their ban list in RAM indefinitely
I think the best tactic is never going back to that shitty website.
No opinion is so important that it needs to post it to Reddit imo
Maybe not, but there are plenty of small niche communities that only exist at reddit. I’m a fan of some games like Voices of the Void, which has a dedicated reddit community that doesn’t exist anywhere else. Also Isekai Demon Waifu, which recently shut down also has a community at reddit.
Lemmy has some generalized gaming communities but nothing like the thousands and thousands of small niche communities that exist over at reddit.
The thing is for some people reddit could be the only interaction they have with other people, so being banned would mean no more interaction
That’s what it means for me. Got banned there and most of my interactions came thru there. Hopefully this site can fill that void but i doubt it and this will propably lead to me rarely having any conversations for long periods of time. :/
Same here. I found a small sub for gangstalking that I could vent to and wouldn’t be called crazy or have to try and prove what is really happening to me because they were going through it too. I didnt even do anything this time around. Literally woke up one day and my account was banned but didn’t get a notification or anything. I just noticed I wasn’t getting any replies and reddit was telling me to to update my password but then wouldn’t let me.
i had the same thing, afther changing password, allegedly early on there was a possibly glitch when they force you to change password, it lifts the ban. im guessing they fixed that recently.
