Myth: "A VPN keeps my multiple accounts safe"

Myth: "A VPN keeps my multiple accounts safe"
This week on Reddit marketing, an opsec belief that gets accounts mass-banned:

— [Rule-change] Reddit's ban-evasion detection uses more than IP — device fingerprint, cookies, email patterns, and behavior link accounts even on different VPN exits, per repeated reports on r/help and r/modhelp.
— [Case] A user on r/NoStupidQuestions lost six accounts at once because they shared a VPN IP block already flagged from someone else's evasion.
— [Tactic] If you genuinely need separate accounts (agency work), Reddit's own answer is to request them through brand support, not to hide behind a consumer VPN.

Editor's pick: a shared VPN doesn't isolate accounts — it can cluster them, so one bad actor on that IP range takes your whole stack down.