How can you bypass a Reddit site ban? - eviltoast

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.

  • Are you using a VPN? I bounce around various exit nodes on my Mullvad account, and Reddit blocks more than half of them, and it always shows up as a ban page (despite the fact that I nuked my Reddit account years ago and am visiting anonymously). When I really want to get to Reddit, say because a question I have looks answered there, I just switch exit nodes until I find one Reddit hasn’t blocked. Most of the time, I don’t bother; I’m usually not that desperate to swim in the cesspool.