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I think Reddit falls under this category. > If your website will block me out because I used a privacy friendly email, I want nothing to do with your website.
by al_borland 5mo ago
I think Reddit falls under this category.
> If your website will block me out because I used a privacy friendly email, I want nothing to do with your website.
- MoonWalk 5mo agoYep, toxic garbage staffed largely by same. Unfortunately, it has amassed quite a bit of potentially useful information.
- al_borland 5mo agoYou don’t need an account to access the information. It’s also all been sucked up my the LLMs, for better or worse.
- roboror 5mo agoIt's full circle now and a large portion of posts and comments are now LLM generated responses, whether by a bot or copy/pasted by a human.
- al_borland 5mo agoAll the more reason to stop visiting.
- HeatrayEnjoyer 5mo agoReddit doesn't even require an email address to make an account. You can just leave the email field blank.
- Ferret7446 5mo agoBut it does require a valid phone number which is worse. (I might be misremembering but they definitely require a valid something now, as I found out a while back creating a new batch of accounts to rotate)
- inigyou 5mo agoThat was switched off recently. Now it demands an email.
- MoonWalk 5mo agoI don't think so. They send a confirmation mail.
- kodt 5mo agoI know I have created accounts on Reddit with disposable email services before.
- MoonWalk 5mo agoI have been "permanently" banned for embarrassing some abusive moderators; now it has become a vendetta. I'm not sure how many user-identifying methods they attempt, but it overcomes VPN usage. I obfuscate my Web traffic now and it seems to have foiled these losers.
- kodt 4mo agoUse Brave browser as it avoids browser fingerprinting.
- gnoll_of_gozag 5mo agostrange. i've used disposable emails for reddit accounts several times and everything worked