Shadow banning is when they are doing extra steps to prevent you from realizing that you are banned. Usually giving you the impression of a working service, whi

Shadow banning is when they are doing extra steps to prevent you from realizing that you are banned. Usually giving you the impression of a working service, while everybody else will not be able to see your contributions. Banning is just stopping the service for you, wether they tell you actively or not depends ob the service. No search service is actively informing you about the usage of your data, neigther are they telling you they stopped servicing you.