Bypassing shadowbans

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My fren wants to shitpost but he's getting shadowbanned on the niggercattle platforms like reddit due to ban evasion. I'm pretty sure they're fingerprinting his browser. I'd suggest using the Tor browser but those platforms don't like Tor.

Is there a suite of extensions for Chrome/FF that anonymizes your browser?
 
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Laziest option: in Firefox you could just try toggling privacy.resistFingerprinting in about:config and see what happens.

Turning it on does set your browser's time zone to UTC rather than your system's time zone though, which messes with timestamps here and other places, so I don't use it.
 
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I don't know of anything that does that exactly, but whatever fren uses, he can try Panopticlick (now Cover Your Tracks) to check if it worked? It looks like the current version is a lot more technical than it used to be however... I feel like it used to spit out a number like "You're one in 44,000" and then do the analysis at the bottom. Now the analysis is deeper and I don't see the dumb person's metric anymore.

If extensions don't work I'd try a new browser profile, then failing that PortableApps to get a whole different browser version. And resize the window to something random instead of snapping to a fixed fraction of the screen, because appearently that's an easy identifiable bit to change.

I wonder if resigning himself to using their mobile apps and then running blue stacks or nox or whatever would work. If you can shove the emulator through a VPN, and their app (presumably) has less special bits it can identify fren by, then I wonder how they'd fingerprint it next. It wouldn't even have a real phone number to track.
 
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If you use a user agent switcher, and then dump cookies/cache and use a VPN it would be rather hard to fingerprint him. There's also canvasblocker but I'm not sure if reddit fingerprints that way. I'm not familiar enough to know if there's any other advanced fingerprinting autism that can happen, but if all you're looking to do is bypass a ban it should be enough
 
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Why have you not evangelized Brave browser to your friend yet?

I'm not savvy enough to know extensively about it but Brave supposedly has better privacy options regarding browser fingerprinting than chrome or Firefox

brave.com

Fingerprinting Defenses 2.0 | Brave Browser

Brave's goal is to both be the best browser for protecting your privacy, and the best browser for day-to-day, full-featured Web use. This post describes new privacy features being developed in Brave to better protect user privacy, without breaking privacy-respecting, user-serving websites.
brave.com brave.com
 
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Tell your friend to go take it up with the admins IRL:
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I can tell you from experience that Reddit jannies have absolutely gotten on a totalitarian power trip in post-2016. It used to be fun to make novelty gimmick accounts to shitpost and bait people, and now even using VPNs or posting on mobile won't change anything. In recent years Reddit has gotten more sophisticated with detecting ban evasion, and I'm assuming they use a digital fingerprint based on each machine or device. I've been pretty much stumped in this regard. I was considering going as far as to use a virtual machine, but it's not even worth it these days due to how unusable that site is nowadays with algorithms.
 
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In order to get into reddit through TOR you must first enter through old reddit and then go to new reddit in order to sign in. If you go immediately to new reddit you won't even be able to view the page.

Either that or you get F-droid for android and download one of the many instances that lets you browse and comment without being tracked (supposedly anyways, you'll have to vet the app you choose yourself).
 
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What works for me is search times like "most common user agent string", "most common laptop", and "most common operating system" and then recreating that. You can buy a 8GB RAM laptop on Craigslist for $50, slap Windows on it, install different web browsers, and use public wifi. Don't bother using anything but gmail for a signup, and be prepared for some sort of communication backchannel between jannies at google and reddit.

I've been banned on multiple sites for shitposting on one site. They chat with each other, or at least some of them do.
 
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Reddit is unusable with Tor. If you make an account with Tor and log out, your password is reset. I'd suggest using Brave with the strictest fingerprint protection if he is already used to Chrome. It would probably be easier than finding all the right extensions to use.
 
My go-to method was creating EC2 instances on Amazon's free tier (https://aws.amazon.com/free/) but Amazon's IP range does appear on spam lists so it might not be 100% fool-proof.

Else it's pay to play using residential IP addresses of which you can try 911 or run an instance on Paperspace


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