From what I understand there isn't an easy way to do that. Just make a new account is the easy solution. (Even easier, just don't bother having an account)
this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2024
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The IP is both Mac address based and IP address based. Good luck!
Using a new account doesn't always work as they have multiple ways of identifying you like your device ID, IP address, subs you subscribe to, etc
Yes, thanks to moderators who abuse the system, and lazy admins who don’t hold them to account.
Reddit uses fingerprinting techniques to track you across accounts. You need to look into defeating these tactics in order to successfully register (and keep) a new account.
Change browser, block html canvas, change IP address, etc. Also time plays a factor. Leave it a couple of weeks.
Or, recognise that Reddit has become completely overrun with shitposting bots and has little in the way of interesting content to offer these days, and move on.
Fingerprinting?
Everytime you connect to a web page and make an HTML/CSS request your browser sends information about your computer as a way to optimize the webpage (screen size, resolution, operating system, JavaScript settings, IP, internet connection, and many more attributes). This information put together essentially forms a fingerprint that is unique to you. It can be saved and used to track you across multiple web pages without having to use cookies or other more invasive tracking methods. It's like a digital form of facial recognition.
Here is a webpage that helps you determine how unique is your fingerprint (and therefore how identifiable):
Just know that sites like this are useless if you don't understand the results. There are anti-fingerprinting techniques that add random noise to your fingerprint. This might result in these kind of tests claiming you have a completely unique fingerprint, even though the anti-fingerprinting mechanisms randomise the fingerprint for every site, browser session, etc. (depending on the config). This would mean that you are relatively „safe“ from fingerprinting because you never have the same print twice but tests think you are very vulnerable because it's still a random “unique“ fingerprint.
Oh that's cool, I was wondering what was the best way to beat it.
Reddit uses fingerprinting techniques to track you across accounts
If this is true, they're doing a terrible job at it. For my sins, I help moderate a small sub for the city I live in. I'm 99% sure there are one or two right wing assholes with multiple accounts but I can't prove it.
Oh yeah, it’s easy enough to beat one you know how.
I’ve already been on Lemmy and learning its ins and outs since the reddit API debacle. Lemmy is not yet populated enough with good groups that cover all the topics I want, but everyone who wants to regain what Reddit used to be should join Lemmy because Reddit has burned themselves for good. It’s never gonna be anything but shit again.
P.S. all of us should encourage others to do the same.
I was on reddit since 2014. Got perma banned a few months ago. Essentially I argued with the nazi mods and they booted me. Whitepeople Twitter is a cesspool of an echo chamber. I took the perma ban happily and permanently switched to lemmy, much happier here. Fuck reddit and the nazi mods just leave and don't look back
Yes, I was shadow banned. Zero communication from the standard ways of reporting it. Good riddance. The place is a cesspool.
Only way I’ve found is to make a new email account and use a VPN every time. I miss r/politics and a few other subs sometimes but I don’t find it worth the effort. Lemmy has less traffic than Reddit but it also has less bots and dickhead mods. There’s been a huge influx of Russian trolls and MAGA tools on Reddit who like to get people banned.
My ip is banned for some reason, so I just use my vpn whenever I wanna read something there
Can you ask questions normally even using a VPN? Could you tell me which VPN you use?
I've used Torguard for almost a decade with great results.
Yes, 3-4 times temporary or permanent bans. Posted an opinion, some mod did not like it, and that was that...
Solved it by creating new accounts. I am quite used to pseudonyms. I never show real names etc. On reddit I did not use the website, only third party apps. And when switching accounts I also switched to another app. After the first ban, I prepared my next accounts long before I needed them.
First time?
Q1: Yes.
Q2: It's possible but doubtful that you'll get an account unbanned. No idea how they do it (haven't bothered to look) but bans seem to track across IP and device. Making a new account on the same device after moving across states, my new accounts would still be banned for evasion within a few days. Couple that with the fact that most subs have karma and age minimum requirements and I just gave up after a while
I got banned for saying I'd be fine with it if Joe Biden executed Nazis. IDK about getting unbanned, I realized I don't want to help far-right psychopaths collect AI training corpus material and ad revenue.
Never banned, never going back. Stay with us, it's better anyway
Not if you use any af the same email accounts or accounts linked to accounts. I don't suggest evading an overzealous temp bad by creating the user all_aita_mods_are_incels they took it hard.
Yep, saw it was permanent, never requested unban.
I was banned after RvW for saying that riot police should quit their jobs en masse. There's no easy way to get unbanned, but consider it for the better because it's the easiest way to disconnect from that cess pit.
Got perma banned with IP ban for using reddit mod app
Yes and not any way I've seen.
I got permabanned. They IP ban you so there isn’t really a way to get back. One way was if you got banned on your computer, you could make a new account on your phone and be fine. A vpn is also possible but the free vpns suck and paying to get back to Reddit is dumb.
Yup, told a zionist to DIAF.
Best post I ever made on that hell hole