New account lasted 19 days. Time to make another one. I will never stop fighting the libtards and trannies.
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Just using incognito mode and clearing cookies is not enough to avoid tracking. There's a huge number of ways they can id your browser as the same unique one that logged into a banned account.
Use coveryourtracks.eff.org or something like it to check what kind of data is leaked to the site to track you. If you have noscript, run it once to load the javascript domains, enable javascript for them (bc you basically have to enable some js to use reddit), and re-run it to see actual results. Read the report for an explanation of each id/tracking method.
At the bare minimum, use a separate browser for trolling and reset everything after an account gets banned - cache, cookies, history, offline data. It's easiest to just configure it to clear everything on window close, but reddit could use how often you log in as a signal.
For advanced mode, you need a new IP for a new trolling account. But either apply the same level of privacy paranoia for your normal browsing or don't mix normal and troll on the same IP. Reason is they can associate say your phone browser's unique ad/tracking ID (bc easier to fingerprint) with the IP you're trolling from, so you try to open a new 21st troll account and they see there's this unique tracking ID on the same network and it's been on the last 20 troll accounts and they flag your new account as ban evasion. So even though you used a new IP for trolling in a desktop virtual machine, your phone is ratting you out by sending its unique ID from the same one.
Theory and practice are wildly different. Reddit only uses IP and cookies. The fact that my new accounts don't get flagged is proof of that.
You wouldn't know if they flagged the account, because the fingerprinting isn't perfect. So they might be flagging your new account "1 strike" for instance and then ban over the slightest thing. (something tame like this post for instance).
Yes I do, because I've done it wrong before and had my new account immediately shadowbanned and/or actually banned.
No, they would not behave that way. They'd ban you immediately for ban evasion.
If you still have a reddit cookie so they know for 100% sure then they'll block your new account right off.
Fingerprinting will be like say 95% certain your new account is ban evasion. Are they going to just entirely ignore that signal? Or tell 1 in 20 new users that might stick around a long time and contribute to fuck off for ban evasion? What would you do with that information?
I have a PPPoE connection, so my IP is more-or-less static (I doesn't change restarting the router). Do I HAVE to use a VPN to go back to trolling the trannies? Can I just use a random free VPN to get another IP to make a new account and then go back to "normal"?