SpielByWeb

[christense]

but still can't create an account.

A few years back I was banned from another forum, nothing extreme, I apparently broke their rules around victim blaming.

I used to like engaging with others on the forum so attempted to re-join a while back with another email account I had. Different username. No joy. I concluded the forum admin perhaps had a way to trace the IP and if it matched a banned person's IP, the account creation wouldn't go ahead.

However a few months back I installed a VPN to further protect my online activity. Yesterday I thought I'd retry creating an account on this other forum. It seemed to have worked, however today it's obviously been removed as I can't log in.

At the end of the day it doesn't overly bother me, however I'm intrigued. Surely with me behind a VPN and using different email and username, they'd have no way to trace my IP now, or would they?

I wouldn't have thought your average forum would have measures to that extent to stop people rejoining, unless it was NASA's forum or something!

[julianash]

Hi, I've used a vpn before, but now I'm in search of a new and high-quality application...

[UolyGooj]

VPNs might get banned too. They use the same servers for many users, and it might happen the website admins understood what’s up with your connection and just banned the entire service.
You can try using a proxy; it’s safer and easier. A good proxy server like https://soax.com/brazil-proxy would help you hide most of your data and get a new IP address. It allows you to access any restricted website and content, making it nearly impossible to track and ban. You can use your phone’s mobile data to establish a proxy connection. It’s even cheaper than a regular proxy server.