I had my account suspended on a major social media site.
I am not a bad guy and not trying to harm anyone, or engage in any criminal activity.
But human beings, being what they are, passionate arguements do happen.
Move on, no big deal right?
I am not here to argue that they are not within their rights, to prevent me to circumvent a suspension by opening another account.
They are.
So please no finger wagging lectures, thats not the question I am asking.
Not lookign debate if its ok , but on the "how do they do it", by those who might have insights, on what may be happending.
At this point its an intellectual challenge to me how they do it and it seems this all uncovered a weakness in my internet privacy.
Another wrinkle is, I also have another alternate account on that site, which has not been suspended.
When I try to start a new one I :
- delete all browser data (time set to "All time") before I try to register a new acct.
- Of course use a new email address. (albeit one from the same email service I used before, they offer alias extension email addresses. This could be a weak spot since its not a common provider.
However my other account using the same email service provider and similar alias extension does not get suspended.
And this email service includes some good privacy shields, that is important to me. And if this email provider was black listed, then my other account should not work anymore either.)
- use my VPN (the same VPN, I always use, is this a weakness? But its set to a different country, so it should present a totally different IP address than my suspended account and if it doesnt, then why is my unsuspended account still live?)
- Use a different name, birthday, sex, home country, absolutely nothing that ties to my identity. etc etc
During the registration process I still get suspended, right after activation email.
The email data packet itself, could be another weakspot, but I understand that my email provider strips out origin ID features out of the data packet its sends to servers with the email.
At least they advertise this and I know from past expereince a few years back, that some of the more secure industry systems for this reason wont accept emails from this provider.
But again, same email provider as my unsuspended account.
At this point, I see it as an intellectual challenge to get done, since I cant figure out why, or rather how.
IP blackisting should not work, due to my VPN and if it did work, then my other account would be susended as well.
My operating system is Windows 11.
So how do they do it?
This is a major privacy concern to me, because if they can "figure me out", so could nefarious actors.
Thanks for any insights by IT professionals where the flaw in my internet privacy might be.
I am not a bad guy and not trying to harm anyone, or engage in any criminal activity.
But human beings, being what they are, passionate arguements do happen.
Move on, no big deal right?
I am not here to argue that they are not within their rights, to prevent me to circumvent a suspension by opening another account.
They are.
So please no finger wagging lectures, thats not the question I am asking.
Not lookign debate if its ok , but on the "how do they do it", by those who might have insights, on what may be happending.
At this point its an intellectual challenge to me how they do it and it seems this all uncovered a weakness in my internet privacy.
Another wrinkle is, I also have another alternate account on that site, which has not been suspended.
When I try to start a new one I :
- delete all browser data (time set to "All time") before I try to register a new acct.
- Of course use a new email address. (albeit one from the same email service I used before, they offer alias extension email addresses. This could be a weak spot since its not a common provider.
However my other account using the same email service provider and similar alias extension does not get suspended.
And this email service includes some good privacy shields, that is important to me. And if this email provider was black listed, then my other account should not work anymore either.)
- use my VPN (the same VPN, I always use, is this a weakness? But its set to a different country, so it should present a totally different IP address than my suspended account and if it doesnt, then why is my unsuspended account still live?)
- Use a different name, birthday, sex, home country, absolutely nothing that ties to my identity. etc etc
During the registration process I still get suspended, right after activation email.
The email data packet itself, could be another weakspot, but I understand that my email provider strips out origin ID features out of the data packet its sends to servers with the email.
At least they advertise this and I know from past expereince a few years back, that some of the more secure industry systems for this reason wont accept emails from this provider.
But again, same email provider as my unsuspended account.
At this point, I see it as an intellectual challenge to get done, since I cant figure out why, or rather how.
IP blackisting should not work, due to my VPN and if it did work, then my other account would be susended as well.
My operating system is Windows 11.
So how do they do it?
This is a major privacy concern to me, because if they can "figure me out", so could nefarious actors.
Thanks for any insights by IT professionals where the flaw in my internet privacy might be.
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