• batmangrundies@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      I pointed out that the Australian subreddits were being very obviously astro-turfed. And then I made a post naming the Aus PR companies that were openly running bot campaigns on Reddit and who was using them.

      That account got banned in record fucking time lol. And no reason was given either, it was a site-wide IP ban. Luckily one call to my ISP and that was sorted lol.

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        They welcome the evasion since they don’t actually want their number of ad impressions going down. They were just letting you know that under no circumstances were you to show anyone what’s behind the curtain.

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        11 months ago

        Mind if I ask how long ago you were banned? It seems like over the last 6-9 months nationalist subreddits have ended up with a huge amount of sway in gettting people banned for arguing with them.

        IP ban isn’t the only way they can get you though. I’ve had them catch me out even with a fresh IP. They fingerprint browsers, using their own implementation of backend Google captcha (you don’t connect to gstatic.com, but redditstatic.com).

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      11 months ago

      sounds about right. I got perma banned for “harassment” for essentially saying spez is a piece of shit lol

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        I got perma banned because I’ve gotten 4 or 5 accounts banned over the years for being toxic and harassing people. I made a joking “call to violence” and they hit me with a perma.

        Meh. I deserved it for sure. If they let me back on the platform I’d do it again 😈

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            11 months ago

            Thanks! Yeah there are some other websites where people share their reddit troll victims and funny comment threads where people are losing their minds. It’s a fun little game to see how many people you can get.

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          It’s so weird how people want to downvote you for trolling shitty Reddit. If you love it so much, go back?

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            I can’t go back :( they fingerprinted my computer, phone, email, all of it. Allegedly I can go to a library and make a new account with a burner email but I haven’t tried.

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              They can’t fingerprint your computer, that’s a lie that Moderators tell to non-techsavy users to discourage ban evasion, just use the browsing history data you and the browser voluntarily give them, use Reddit through Tor and it won’t be effective, you can harass their admins constantly and they can’t do a thing about it, just keep banning the accounts (unless they want to Ban Tor which I don’t forsee happening at least for a while).

              Just don’t try pushing your luck because if you say anything too evil (i.e. threats of mass violence, mass destruction, violence or harm against the government, etc.) Dpeartment of Investigation, FBI, or Secret Service could still come after you with Tor.