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by Adachi91 617 days ago
> Reddit blocks it completely, requires you to sign-in but even the sign-in page is "network restricted";

I've been creating accounts every time I need to visit Reddit now to read a thread about [insert subject]. They do not validate E-Mail, so I just use `example@example.com`, whatever random username it suggests, and `example` as a password. I've created at least a thousand accounts at this point.

Malicious Compliance, until they disable this last effort at accessing their content.

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They verify signup emails now. At least for me.
Most subreddits worth posting on usually have a minimum account age + minimum account karma. I've found it annoying to register new accounts too often.
I've created a few thousand accounts through a VPN (random node per account). After doing that, I found out Reddit accounts created through VPNs are automatically shadow banned the second time they comment (I think the first is also shadow deleted in some way). But they allow you to browse from a shadow banned account just fine.