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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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[–] uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 2 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

How do they even know it's both you in cases like this?

[–] greyfrog@sh.itjust.works 5 points 23 hours ago

I think they use a lot of heuristics.

To test I made a new VM with fresh browser, running with a VPN and I still got banned, although it took slightly longer (maybe a few days).

It's possible though my VPN was used on my old account at some point though. But still.

[–] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

IP addressses and hardware identifiers.

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

IP addressses and hardware identifiers

Actually a lot of it is browser fingerprinting.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

yeah. i might give it a try when i swap to mint, but why. i'm done with reddit.