Reddit is a pile of shit. On my account, where I've said nothing offensive, they banned me from /r/news. What the fuck? I was careful with that account. I didn't say anything racist, or sexist. I didn't support Trump. Yet they found a reason to ban me. The insanity! I deleted my account. Fuck 'em.

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[–]JoeSeratt 21 insightful - 3 fun21 insightful - 2 fun22 insightful - 3 fun -  (18 children)

Reddit has invasive fingerprinting that uses your DRM among other things. They track and identify all alts you have even if you switch ips.

[–][deleted] 15 insightful - 4 fun15 insightful - 3 fun16 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

Their trans activist psycho mods stalk users.

[–]Chunkeeguy 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Am I imagining things or a more than half the mods on Reddit trans activists now?

[–][deleted] 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You’re not crazy. I couldn’t believe it when I read what some other websites said about them, and when I looked up articles on Reddit, I realized they were accurate. It’s like there’s a HUGE group of super mods who are TW and furries.

[–]justjoggin 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

Reddit has invasive fingerprinting that uses your DRM among other things.

Could you ELI5 this, please?

[–]motionlessoracle 29 insightful - 2 fun29 insightful - 1 fun30 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

Websites like Reddit use sophisticated tracking methods. These methods start out as defenses against bots and bad actors, but eventually morph into privacy invasions.

If you create multiple accounts with the same e-mail address, they will use that. If you don't enter an e-mail address, they will use the IP address of your connection. If you use a VPN to mask your IP, they will attempt to "fingerprint" your browser. This means they will use information about your browser to create a profile. For instance, they can query the user agent, like so: https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-is-my-user-agent

They can run Javascript on your browser to attempt to determine the size of your browser window. Since most people run their browser full-screen, or always use the same browser window size, this gives them a method to recognize you. They can query which other plugins you are running. If you use a browser that attempts to cloak the user agent and plugins, they can use code that is guaranteed to give different results based on browser to unmask you.

Worse, they can use DRM on your machine to identify not only your browser, but your computer uniquely. DRM permits you to stream protected content in your browser. DRM authorizes you by creating a full device fingerprint of your computer. Sites like Reddit will query that DRM, giving them a unique fingerprint of your computer/phone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint

Scary stuff. Browse with as little enabled as possible. Turn off Javascript, turn off DRM, use a browser that will return junk for common browser fingerprinting queries.

[–]JamalGinsberg 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

VPN + Brave browser Tor window + fakemailgenerator.com

I’m guessing they just shadowban you if you block all their tracking though.

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Brave browser is good?

[–]pertinaste 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Brave exists to earn its owner money, unlike almost every browser out there. And that's a perverse incentive that can only harm users. A couple weeks ago they got caught red-handed replacing affiliate codes (Amazon, etc.) from all over the internet with their own.

Shady as hell.

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Rather Brave than amazon. But yeah, shady.

[–]3_Headed_Nazi 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Here's my situation:

  • I originally got shadowbanned from making new accounts, because I made about 50 accounts in 2 days. I'm marked as spam.

  • Any new accounts I make are shadowbanned unless I use a VPN. If I use a free public VPN, I've had some luck, but if I use my own personal VPN, they mostly all get banned after a few days. Sometimes they get restored when I put in a ticket and sometimes not.

  • Had about 30-100 accounts all perma supsended site wide for getting around a ban on a sub and getting banned again without the vpn.

  • On my phone, which I've never had anything banned from and never used on my shadowbanned IP, I'm still getting shadowbanned on accounts I made. On some accounts, the mods will restore the account, but otherwise, they are marked as spam.

  • I also got my hotspot somehow shadowbanned, even though I've only used it on the phone(which I talked about above), and haven't been banned on it.

  • My first ever reddit account, which I've said the worst stuff on, I'm still allowed to post from. This is on the same IP as the other account I had 100+ account bans from.

I'm really kind of lost at this point on what to do aside from giving up or maybe making accounts at the library/Starbucks or something.

[–]bobbobbybob 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

so if you browse the same kind of sites on your device, then you'll pick up the same kind of cookies.

So use brave or another privacy browser for your 'clean' reddit and use that browser for nothing else.

[–]justjoggin 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for all that info!

[–]bagano1 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Think the easiest way to explain this is that they will always know who you are, no matter what new accounts you make.

[–]3_Headed_Nazi 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Here's my situation:

  • I originally got shadowbanned from making new accounts, because I made about 50 accounts in 2 days. I'm marked as spam.

  • Any new accounts I make are shadowbanned unless I use a VPN. If I use a free public VPN, I've had some luck, but if I use my own personal VPN, they mostly all get banned after a few days. Sometimes they get restored when I put in a ticket and sometimes not.

  • Had about 30-100 accounts all perma supsended site wide for getting around a ban on a sub and getting banned again without the vpn.

  • On my phone, which I've never had anything banned from and never used on my shadowbanned IP, I'm still getting shadowbanned on accounts I made. On some accounts, the mods will restore the account, but otherwise, they are marked as spam.

  • I also got my hotspot somehow shadowbanned, even though I've only used it on the phone(which I talked about above), and haven't been banned on it.

  • My first ever reddit account, which I've said the worst stuff on, I'm still allowed to post from. This is on the same IP as the other account I had 100+ account bans from.

I'm really kind of lost at this point on what to do aside from giving up or maybe making accounts at the library/Starbucks or something.

[–]bagano1 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't wanna be mean dude, but just give up on that site. They want to run everyone away, let them do it. Most of these sites aren't run by adults like a business. It's just someone's lunch table. When they get in financial trouble, they will change their ways.

[–]ohkrill 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Why do you do this? Seems like a ton of effort to do...what, exactly? Post on a site you don’t even like?

[–]book-of-saturday 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Also take a look at https://panopticlick.eff.org/

[–]book-of-saturday 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

their mobile app is sketchy as fuck too