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Comment on Has anyone here ever been permanently banned from reddit? If so, is there any way to get unbanned?

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.

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IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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.

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- Madrigal@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Oh yeah, it’s easy enough to beat one you know how.
  
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morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Fingerprinting?

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- MataVatnik@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  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, IP 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.
  
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  - RayJW@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    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.
    
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    MataVatnik@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Oh that’s cool, I was wondering what was the best way to beat it.
    
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AndrewZabar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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.

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