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.

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    1 day ago

    Use a privacy browser like brave , set the privacy browser as your default (important), create a new account and patch a 3rd party app. Sign in to the 3rd party app. Have “fun” scrolling through manufactured ragebait. At this point you could set your original default browser back, just only use reddit outside of the 3rd party app in the privacy browser.