Reddit Account Bans - Looking for Insights

lot of reddit stuff here i think i need to get some time to read it all, looks helpful info here, good thread, i will read when i find time, ohh see we have member from 2013 also in this thread, lot of info here
 
Noob questions:
- Why do some of you folks use real pixel phones? Is an emulator bad?
- What is the deal about SIM cards? As a user, I can have mobile data turned off and use wifi. I don't think they would be checking if ISP and IP are from same zone.
 
- Why do some of you folks use real pixel phones? Is an emulator bad?

Emulator has ways of revealing itself. Some apps crawl directories to see if you emulate.

Certain fingerprints will look uniform across emulators. It's the same with real mobile devices.

If you have found emulator that works feel free to share it, I will test it for myself. However, likely 100% detected.

Pixel devices run vanilla android that don't have additional OEM APIs. Pixels can be flashed with various custom ROMs such as Graphene OS, which can run up to 32 sandboxed profiles. That to my knowledge is the most a custom ROM can do.

Graphene OS has fine permission control, allows additional sandboxed profiles, and looks trusted when downloading Google Play Services onto the device. However, with Graphene OS, it's needed to warm up the account longer.

iOS in some instances is preferred. However, bans and blocks will persist after device resets and reinstalls. Some more advanced users root their iOS and install custom scripts which do various things including avoiding detection and more.


- What is the deal about SIM cards? As a user, I can have mobile data turned off and use wifi. I don't think they would be checking if ISP and IP are from same zone.

Devices with SIM cards are more trusted. Apps can call various APIs that reveal at least the country that a SIM if present was registered in. I've heard some rumors that some apps use privilege escalation to see more identifiers.
 
Thanks for insights. I think with a debugger and maybe root it maybe possible to monitor what all reddit is inspecting and then work on spoofing it on emulators, Easier said than done though.
 
Anti detect browsers are detected by most platforms. I personally switched to using a google pixel and installing grapheneOS on it. This allows for 32 sandboxed accounts on the phone that can’t be detected.

Register on the Reddit app using a Google account. Create a password in the Reddit app after registration in case G kills your account.

I have more than 300 accounts this way for more than 8 months now. I don’t have to use them daily. Some have sat for months and they are fine. I used one non rotating mobile proxy that matched the SIM card carrier for all of them.

The catch: The phone needs to have a real SIM card and have been activated within the last year by the company that made the SIM card. The SIM card does not have to remain activated but you need to keep the same SIM card in the phone at all times.

2nd catch, the phone has to be sold directly from Google so you can use OEM unlocking. That is very important. If you buy a used one on eBay like me verify with the seller that OEM unlocking isn’t greyed out. I learned that the hard way.

Reddit is easy. Google and discord are harder.
Anti detect browsers are not detected by websites, only poorly configured settings and bad proxies lead to detection, amongst a couple other things.

Your solution is okay for a small scale but this cant be automated for large scale projects which need many browsers and accounta running at the same time.
 
anti detect browsers dont work you have to do your own fingerprint spoofing
Yeah good luck with that, let me know when your Anti detect browser ware launches.

Lol. Please speak for yourself or bring conclusive and detailed proof for your claims, it is my job to managae, migrate, create medium sized multi accounting orchestrations and I have checked all the APIs, all the cloud browsers, interfaces, I DID that, weeks of testing for project where people put good money on the line, where the is very little room for error. What have you done?

I am personally handling things with 247 uptime with anti detect browsers, things were you can trip up in 100s of ways, with hundreds of accounts posting, scraping, upvoting etc all the time, and guess what the accounts are just fine.

I wager a guess you would not even know how to spoof a fingerprint and launch a profile before any network requests, let alone on any sort of scale whatsoever.

Of course they work, people just are not setting them up properly, I am developing a bot , not with the target to create reddit accounts, but to collect cookies etc, but while doing so, I create a reddit account every time, I do not know, I run around 20 tests with the bot per day and I must have accumulated something like 100 accounts.
 
So everyone has a bad set up but you?

No there is no automation in my set up. My accounts are high quality. We don’t do any annoying spamming on social media. We simply make mentions of our business via different methods. Mostly we just post a picture or video about what people are interested in within the group. Then post the link with another account. All accounts look real and feel real. We earn significant income this way and never have to worry about waking up and having all of our accounts wiped out.

Manipulating Reddit is not how I make a living. I don’t sell any Reddit services. So this works for me and my business.

Furthermore, I don’t remember asking if it would be suitable for you. I remember sharing my own method because the stuff you are talking about is mostly dead.
 
Make sure to use anti detect browser + 4g proxy, warm up the account really hard before entering reddit
 
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Reddit flags dormant accounts quickly, especially if created in bulk. Not warming them up naturally is a common trigger slow consistent activity and genuine engagement after creation usually keeps accounts safer.
 
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Consistently using new accounts to interact naturally commenting, upvoting and joining niche communities can help them blend in and reduce the chance of mass suspensions
 
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Yeah, Reddit’s been way stricter lately. Fresh accounts sitting idle in bulk usually don’t last long anymore. Anti-detect browsers help with isolation, but they don’t stop Reddit’s internal checks. Feels more like platform changes than something you did wrong.
 
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Thank you all for the thoughtful suggestions and helpful feedback. I’ve begun warming up the new batch of accounts and will share my progress and insights here as I go. ;)
 
UPDATE:

So I took the advice shared here and switched to mobile proxies. That said, before doing that, I had already created around 400 accounts using the same set of datacenter proxies. Yeah… I can already hear the “are you serious?” comments, but stick with me. :D

I started warming these accounts up a couple of days ago, and surprisingly, the suspension rate has been pretty low so far. I’m still holding judgment for another week, though, because that’s around the time my earlier batch started getting hit.

Overall, this has been a fun (and slightly nerve-racking) experiment. Definitely challenging, but I’m enjoying the process and the thrill that comes with testing things hands-on.

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SUMMARY
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Total accounts checked: 405
Banned accounts: 11
Active accounts: 394
Errors: 0

Will update again once I have more data. ;)

Any feedback or suggestions? I'd be happy to hear them.
 
UPDATE:

So I took the advice shared here and switched to mobile proxies. That said, before doing that, I had already created around 400 accounts using the same set of datacenter proxies. Yeah… I can already hear the “are you serious?” comments, but stick with me. :D

I started warming these accounts up a couple of days ago, and surprisingly, the suspension rate has been pretty low so far. I’m still holding judgment for another week, though, because that’s around the time my earlier batch started getting hit.

Overall, this has been a fun (and slightly nerve-racking) experiment. Definitely challenging, but I’m enjoying the process and the thrill that comes with testing things hands-on.

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SUMMARY
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Total accounts checked: 405
Banned accounts: 11
Active accounts: 394
Errors: 0

Will update again once I have more data. ;)

Any feedback or suggestions? I'd be happy to hear them.
Not bad but let’s check in 90 days what the stats are before we get confident
 
Not bad but let’s check in 90 days what the stats are before we get confident
Fair point. :D I’m not sure I’ll be warming up the accounts till then, I tend to take things a bit slow (and lazy, admittedly).
How about we do a quick check again in two weeks and see how the stats look?
 
Fair point. :D I’m not sure I’ll be warming up the accounts till then, I tend to take things a bit slow (and lazy, admittedly).
How about we do a quick check again in two weeks and see how the stats look?
That’s not a bad timeframe. This type of “internet marketing” will give you anxiety. Definitely be lazy.
 
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Not bad but let’s check in 90 days what the stats are before we get confident
Usually accounts that have gained and maintained at least moderate CQS (contributive quality score) + have decent comment karma history for a few weeks pretty much won't be automatically shadowbanned by Reddit's auto filters. The only times accounts can get banned is if they are mass reported and the admins review them manually. The goal of warming up accounts is to dodge the automatic ban system.
 
UPDATE:

So I took the advice shared here and switched to mobile proxies. That said, before doing that, I had already created around 400 accounts using the same set of datacenter proxies. Yeah… I can already hear the “are you serious?” comments, but stick with me. :D

I started warming these accounts up a couple of days ago, and surprisingly, the suspension rate has been pretty low so far. I’m still holding judgment for another week, though, because that’s around the time my earlier batch started getting hit.

Overall, this has been a fun (and slightly nerve-racking) experiment. Definitely challenging, but I’m enjoying the process and the thrill that comes with testing things hands-on.

==================================================
SUMMARY
==================================================
Total accounts checked: 405
Banned accounts: 11
Active accounts: 394
Errors: 0

Will update again once I have more data. ;)

Any feedback or suggestions? I'd be happy to hear them.
nice! Just wondering. What is your strategy towards warmup? Like how often are you commenting each day per account?
 
Usually accounts that have gained and maintained at least moderate CQS (contributive quality score) + have decent comment karma history for a few weeks pretty much won't be automatically shadowbanned by Reddit's auto filters. The only times accounts can get banned is if they are mass reported and the admins review them manually. The goal of warming up accounts is to dodge the automatic ban system.
That’s a great perspective thanks so much for sharing with us.
 
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