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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[–]justjoggin 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

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

Could you ELI5 this, please?

[–]bagano1 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 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 -  (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.

[–]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.