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Were you using tor, brave, strong adblocking or a disposable email and refused to give your phone number? All these things will get you banned now when trying t
by patrickaljord 6y ago
Were you using tor, brave, strong adblocking or a disposable email and refused to give your phone number? All these things will get you banned now when trying to open a new account.
- snazz 6y agouBlock Origin (with roughly default settings) has never tripped Reddit's new account security stuff for me. I could see how it would make financial sense for social networks to ban account creation from Tor and disposable emails given the high spam-to-legitimacy ratio, although it's understandably frustrating for people who want anonymity.
- patrickaljord 6y agoReddit is fine but parent was talking about Twitter.
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoWith twitter this is true since at least 4 years. Furthermore when reusing a dormant account after about 10 years you are flagged as a fraud. Happened to me recently with Amazon after password reset. But not instantly, only after very carefully choosing and comparing about a dozen articles for about 500EUR during the night, then in the early morning finally putting it all into the basket and confirming the order. BAM! Two dozen popups about fradulent activity, account locked! WTF?! At least I managed to get called back on my landline instantly, from someone in Egypt. Very friendly. Account unlocked, but now I'm in CAPTCHA-hell. Unusable that way. All very unsatisfactory. Gives one the feeling one is on someones shitlist. Anyways, there are other options. "Shrug..."