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Reddit Was Fun

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Memorial to "rif is fun for Reddit" Android app, aka "reddit is fun", shut down after June 30, 2023

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19 yrs on Reddit, permanently banned. (infosec.pub)
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No warning, not even a "Don't do it again email" - I had a work account, that was logged in on my works laptop, I made a comment critical of Netanyahu, and the Gaza genocide, which got that account banned from /pics. This was months ago, then I made a comment on pics, on my main account. That's it, gone, banned.

I even have another spare account, from 2008, logged in to that, that's banned too. FFS!

No luck on appeals, so I guess no more reddit, ever again. Anyone managed to get around this?

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Anyone managed to get around this?

Considering how some people run hundreds of bots it must be possible.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's very hard on a device you actually use. They cross reference cookies from multiple ad networks and affiliates, they fingerprint your unique interests, your devices, it's actually fairly impressive. I've gone to some lengths and still gotten new accounts suspended after weeks or months. The people who run bots are using clean VMs to do it, everything totally fresh and unconnected.

[–] BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But a VM would still share the same IP.

[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

NAT networks that use shared global IP like a VPN but in a more local ways. Thus saying, they cannot simply ban 1 IP address of a trusted internet provider and cut of like a thousand people just to ban 1 account since this will limit other potential clients and lover their profits. Reddit's greed is also its weakness.