[al_borland]

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]

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

[al_borland]

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

[roboror]

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.

[al_borland]

All the more reason to stop visiting.

[HeatrayEnjoyer]

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

[Ferret7446]

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)

[inigyou]

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

[MoonWalk]

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

[kodt]

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

[MoonWalk]

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.

[kodt]

Use Brave browser as it avoids browser fingerprinting.

[gnoll_of_gozag]

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

[mingus88]

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

[MoonWalk]

Cowardly, despicable behavior.

Also practiced on this site.