Melody Fwygon

If you have to ask that; you really must have been living under a rock for the past 3-5 years.

I personally use Firefox still; and keep a fresh copy in a (Pixel only feature) Private Space (Basically an implementation of Android alternate user profile) as well. It works and accepts any privacy addons I throw at it.

Currently using:

• uBlock Origin
• Chameleon
• Privacy Badger¹
• LocalCDN
• Decentraleyes¹
• CanvasBlocker¹

¹ - May duplicate functions of other plug-ins; but provide additional protection layers and cover for the limitations of other addon(s)…

Being worried about addons adding to your fingerprint is something that I quite honestly find is not a significant issue usually…unless you’re explicitly doing something truly spooky if found out…then you should use Tor Browser ONLY.

As someone who formerly modded on reddit for over a decade; I do know what trips the alerts typically. The steps I give are important to establish a fresh account with nothing an idle internet sleuth can link back to you; as well as preventing Mod(Bots) from detecting you. Reddit Automoderator has ‘Admin eyes’…even if it lacks the permissions to act like one. It can, and will use algorithms on those eyes to assess your ‘threat level’. Knowing the trajectory of reddit when I quit; it probably uses AI now. Before it was a dumb blackbox of algorithmic rules the Admins never really made fully clear about how it worked. This dumb blackbox made frequent mistakes.

I’d say you can try do it; but I caution you on doing so. It will be problematic

You cannot be completely undetected if using the reddit app. You must avoid using a mobile device; these are too easily trackable and the browsers on mobile devices lack sufficient privacy protections.

• First and foremost you’ll have to setup to access reddit from a completely unique device. I recommend a virtual machine on a computer using a privacy respecting browser like Librewolf.
• Secondly, you’ll need a good paid VPN…I recommend Mullvad. Do not create your account with this VPN! It will trip alarms.
• Third, you’ll need a laptop with a similar private browser. do not use your main Windows user account. Create a new local account. This is to enforce that you do not access reddit for account creation using a “known” browser fingerprint.
• Fourth, you will need to travel. It must be somewhere out of town; and you should be using a public wifi network when creating the reddit account. Be aware of the ISP coverage in your area and travel far enough that you do not use the same ISP as your own. If you don’t know their coverage area; look it up online. Travel to a place they don’t offer service.
• Fifth, Once you have traveled, use the clean windows account you created to create the new reddit account. Do not name your account similar to your banned account, or subscribe to any subreddits that are outside of /r/popular.
• Farm some karma. Ideally 1k is enough. 100 will do in a pinch but you’ll need to keep farming it; which is a dumb idea to do on a VPN.
• Verify a fresh email address. Use only tuta.com as your mail provider.
• Stay off the reddit account on your home PCs and network. Use reddit only in a public wifi setting on the laptop as described above. Do this for no less than 30 days while farming karma. No need to travel out of town; local public/private wifi will do. (Just not yours).
• Once the account has aged a month; you can log in with the VPN as mentioned above at home using the virtual machine at home. Continue using the VPN for the foreseeable future. Enjoy sticking it to Spez.

I would recommend resurrecting it.

Once you do so; Lock it down, make everything private that you can.

Secondly change all the privacy settings and opt out of any AI training.

Then slowly go back through your history and scrub out your posts; replacing them with gibberish and junk. Do not use AI text IMHO; use something like ‘lorem ipsum’ or some kind of ‘Markov chain babbler’.

I would just suggest scrubbing back through your history slowly once a day; editing a few posts here or there. Look into what exactly the rate-limits might be; so that you can avoid triggering whatever automated suspensions that exist and edit one or two posts less than that a day.

Avoid using automation, as this too can be detected possibly…but do remember you can use other tools that run on your PC only to help streamline your editing.

In general, it’s better if you can manually review and scrub over your old posts slowly. That way you can best decide how each posting and image will be scrambled. Maybe one post gets lorem ipsum in strategic places and the other gets 1000xTranslated into a barely plausible word salad.

Perhaps other times you feed the post into a markov babbler and let it babble on for a few minutes. Perhaps you leave a few otherwise innocuous posts alone so that the poison doesn’t look so suspicious while you sanitize anything that you might consider sensitive.

Once a few months have passed and you’ve deleted all the sensitive information from the account that you can possibly edit or change; then you can proceed to deleting the account and waiting out that process.

1. Get help. Your mental health and physical health must always come first.
2. Privacy is not an all or nothing thing. Your mental health and physical health must always come first.
3. Continue practicing good privacy habits at a rate, level and depth that fits your situation and needs. No need to constantly adhere to Snowden levels of privacy seeking and hiding under rocks. There never was a need for this unless you are in a situation like Snowden. Your mental health and physical health must always come first.
4. It’s totally fine to be as genuine or as pseudonymous as you feel as your needs and wants demand. However, Your mental and physical health must always come first.
5. Relax. Current events have a way of making you paranoid but there truly is not usually a state level actor hovering over you waiting for your tiniest of mistakes. If you usually obey the law and do no significant harm to others, I doubt you have any significant worries. Your mental health and physical health must always come first though. Don’t obsess over it if it makes you feel mentally unwell.