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.

  • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I doubt that they fingerprinted your MAC address, but it’s likely that they banned the IP address. Unless there’s some weirdness with how your modem, router, and IP are configured, your ISP should assign you a new IP address after leaving the modem unplugged for a few minutes.

    If I may add, reddit isn’t worth this trouble, regardless of how benign it is. They handed you a reason to abandon their sinking ship. I suggest you take it.

      • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        Tbf I never once did I accidentally circumvent a ban, or ever get banned from reddit in the first place. I remember that’s how a lot of folks got around it about 10 years ago, but browser fingerprinting has gotten far more complex than what I learned in that time. It’s a long shot, but with that shitshow it could potentially still work