Same here, occasionally I can’t connect due to blocked/blacklisted VPN server, but switching servers always solves the issue. Reddit is somewhat hostile to VPNs compared to the past, but it isn’t an outright ban or block on VPNs.
@Banjaie , if you are the same person that asked this question on Techlore a while back, the test account I made a week or two ago to test your premise that accounts created from a known VPN server will be banned or shadowbanned, still hasn’t been banned or shadowbanned (to the best of my knowledge). I think you should be considering other variables.
Perhaps that’s where the problem is. I am using free.
Could I ask you to help settle this and use the free IPs/servers in a new FF container (with Ublock) to create new Reddit account and use it (post) to see if they shadow block it?
Update: I just got shadow banned after some vpn usage. Don’t really care though this website is way better for me anyways. I love being forced away from insecure websites. Strangely, this only happened after switching to brave browser + vpn + simple login email. Everything was fine on firefox.
I think that is a pretty likely possibility. The free servers are both (1) most likely used by a much larger group of people, and (2) most likely used by more people doing things that’d get an IP blacklisted.
Could I ask you to help settle this and use the free IPs/servers in a new FF container (with Ublock) to create new Reddit account and use it (post) to see if they shadow block it?
I don’t think my current VPN provider has any free servers, but someone who uses ProtonVPN may be willing to test for you.
Update, my test account was suspended. VPN + uBlock, + Arkenfox on it’s own wasn’t a problem. It is likely that in my case, the eventual suspension was these factors + commenting a couple times in a row on a (not overtly political) topic that mentioned the names of [edit: redacted] (two divisive figures in American politcs). My guess is that that combination of factors is what triggered the anti-spam/abuse action.
politics is an iffy subject, any subreddit that discuss politics, or cops, is going to get a high amount traffic including trolls, spam accounts,etc. those are heavily monitored subs; i received quite a few warnings or suspensions, and including perm bans for the sub. but suddenly after recieving a temp ban on one of my accts(accidentally deleted as well) all my other accts that were inactive were flagged and banned as well, its the increased ban evasion filter they are using at reddit now.
for a while i was treading carefully at political and news sub, but after commenting on a disagreement i was warned and banned. Also if you report other bots and spam, you can get banned yourself for “reporting abuse”, and then they look at all your other accounts on your IP and will ban them retroactively.
op, i assumed you were banned or permantly banned on a account before? which triggered the ban evasion to kick in. they can detect patterns even if you made new accounts, like using the same ip address over and over again, you posted to similarly to another post, or made multiple accounts in a short amount of time in said same locations(ip address). judging from another forum, even using different anti-fingerprinting browsers may not help, if you do too much too fast. from what ive seen, paid VPNS, privacy filters, proxies might be the only course for the permanently banned people.
yea if you had a original account that triggered the ban evasion on the other accts, those accounts are unlikely to be reinstated it because they see that as ban evasion accounts, only your primary acct that triggered all those other bans has a chance.
posting on subs that have political discussion, or any news sub is pretty risky, i had comments removed, accused report spamming and out right ban, which currently resulted a temp ban on the account the triggered total ban on my alt accounts i had years back. Also heard reddit used new tools that monitor the more trafficked subs which are often politics and news and catch ban evaders more quickly than, if you only went on niche small subs. if you go to the mod sub they said it catches alot of ban evasion or suspicious accounts. but the new methods have increased ban yields.
I have the same issue, but I doubt that VPN is the reason. I deleted my old working account because I couldn’t change my username. Since that all accounts I create get shadowbanned. I used VPN, not used VPN on creation, commented while using and not using VPN - it’s all the same. And I haven’t ever been banned or warned! Appeals don’t work at all - admins are not doing their job. And all of that just because I dared to use another account.
It’s definitely VPN and/or device related. NOT using VPN (and a different device where no previous Reddit accounts where created) keeps the account active, from my experiment.