For people who got unfairly banned under the new Musk appeasement rules. Buy a reddit account? Use a VPN? Would like to not use reddit but there’s niche communities that don’t exist anywhere else.
For people who got unfairly banned under the new Musk appeasement rules. Buy a reddit account? Use a VPN? Would like to not use reddit but there’s niche communities that don’t exist anywhere else.
You asked a straight-forward question and got irrelevant responses you didn’t ask for based on their own priorities… As they’re browsing a Reddit community… on Lemmy. Weirdman. There are other reasons to be on Reddit, obviously, and you can simultaneously grow this community while having a foot there as well.
To answer your question: To my knowledge, Reddit uses a mixture of IP banning, Web Browser fingerprinting, and behavioral analysis (e.g., which subs you frequent, upvote, etc.). I think the IP ban only lasts so long — some things I’ve read after 100 days (except original registration IP)? After all, IPs are not often static for an individual or may be a gateway for many users. Which is why they associate an IP with a web browser fingerprint. They not only pull the cookies, but additional info independent of cookies about the browser used but other information like your computer monitor setup are utilized.
TOR browser used to work, but Reddit changed their log-in page and its CAPTCHA requirements fuck with its log-in.
VPN + Incognito alternative browser from what you traditionally use, or if you really want to get fancy, a VM instance. DO NOT use your phone that was linked to your banned account either to log on. Alternatively you may be able to request a new IP from your ISP? You basically have to come up with a scenario that gives a plausible scenario that you are a different user than the other person who was banned.
Yeah I agree, besides ban evading is the ultimate “fuck you” you can give reddit why would you want to stop? (Besides it being a pain in the ass ofc I myself gave up for the time being but still)