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.
Using a VPN makes it difficult to categorise the user. You’re obfuscating the data they want to mine and on sell. As such, your account is deemed “suspicious” (aka same profile as “bad actors”) and gets banned.
It’s all algorithmic theatre. The rules are intentionally opaque. Pay it no mind; it’s not about you, it’s about them. Their algo is coarse and binary.
Tldr: you made it too hard to sell your data (you’re the product). Fuck reddit. Speed its death by taking the good stuff elsewhere.
You are right, I was getting it confused, and didn’t think about the hidden fingerprint stuff.