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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Reddit shadow banned and banned every new account I tried with a VPN. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I know Reddit now has a stupid rule or policy about new accounts posting or commenting. They punish new users for just trying to have a conversation. Why does Reddit hate privacy? Is it just in the system trying to filter out bots? Well, it is doing a shitty job since bots are still a high percentage there. Reddit banned me, even when I was on the new user friendly subs. I tried with multiple locations with a VPN too. This has to make people go to other platforms. Like I did, I moved here.

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[–] cattywampus@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You use a board farm like This. Each has its own IP address and if need be you set up a static IP for them over VPN.

[–] Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow! That is crazy!

[–] cattywampus@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

It's big business. Pretty much every social network got its start with bots, major creators and influencers used artificial engagement to get their start, websites use tons of artificial traffic to rank higher on search results.

The other tactic is using a traditional bot net aka a hacker infects as many machines as possible essentially just to use them as a click farm.

It's a whole grey or black market.