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Brednan / Reddit-Account-Creator-V2

This is the second account creator I'm making for reddit. Instead of using selenium, it uses the requests module in python as it is a lot more efficient.
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shadowbanned accounts #3

Open xmrstickers opened 1 year ago

xmrstickers commented 1 year ago

this code "works" in the sense that (with some tweaking) you CAN create "valid" accounts that log in to reddit and can comment; HOWEVER, try to view any of these accounts or their comments from a different "normally-created" reddit account and you will notice you cannot see anything -- they are on their own little shadowban islands, basically read-only mode accounts.

I have been diving into the account-creation process and there is a significant amount of additional checks... for starters, custom HTTP headers (x-reddit-session, x-reddit-loid [likely varies w/ location;"location ID"], and x-signature) are expected by "real clients"

would love to talk more about this if you'd like, as I am still learning on this topic as well and found your tool as a starting point.

smillwith61 commented 1 year ago

i am having the sames issues. do you happen to know more?

Brednan commented 1 year ago

Unfortunately I do not know what causes it to be shadowbanned. I'm not sure if it is the temp mail service that causes it to be shadowbanned or if it is something else. I would look into it more but I'm in college so I don't have much time to troubleshoot it.