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.
Well, look how much unique data your browser sends: https://www.deviceinfo.me/
You can fingerprint a user based on that. Probably just a different browser or device. You can try Mullvad browser which will get the same fingerprint with many other users, but that could also mean it will just be blocked already.
Or maybe TOR browser - Reddit has an onion site, maybe it can also be used for signup.
they can’t use that for bans, as many people with default configs on common devices would be false positives. fingerprinting is only useful for ads, where a false positive just means someone gets a dildo ad instead of a car ad and you might as well treat a group of people as some kind of target audience.