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Comment by al_borland | Hacker News Reader

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.

Yep, toxic garbage staffed largely by same. Unfortunately, it has amassed quite a bit of potentially useful information.

You don’t need an account to access the information. It’s also all been sucked up my the LLMs, for better or worse.

It'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.

All the more reason to stop visiting.

Reddit doesn't even require an email address to make an account. You can just leave the email field blank.

But 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)

That was switched off recently. Now it demands an email.

I don't think so. They send a confirmation mail.

I know I have created accounts on Reddit with disposable email services before.

I 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.

Use Brave browser as it avoids browser fingerprinting.

strange. i've used disposable emails for reddit accounts several times and everything worked

Last couple of accounts I created with proton accounts were immediately shadow banned

I could post but my posts were not visible to anyone else

Cowardly, despicable behavior.

Also practiced on this site.

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