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Why the insistence on Tor? Just use a normal VPN. Tor exit nodes are limited in number, and the same IP probably ends up being used by thousands of people... I assume a lot of them use it for nefarious reasons so you just end up in the same bucket. To some extent VPN providers can get hit by this too, but it's easy to just switch outbound IPs (for most of them). And if you want more than that, get a cheap VPS and install OpenVPN on it (you get your own unique exit IP address) - pay with bitcoin for the privacy aspect, also a good place to install an ad-filter, a secure DNS proxy (DOH) and so on.

I also don't understand the 2FA point, that says nothing about your accounts' intentions.

The account history is an interesting point... if you have a long-standing history with no reports of inappropriate actions, they should factor that in somehow into their algos.




>Why the insistence on Tor?

Short answer: I'm a privacy activist. That should be a valid enough reason for this context.

>I also don't understand the 2FA point, that says nothing about your accounts' intentions.

No, but it shows my account is secured from intruders, which means reCAPTCHA is just an additional nuisance to me, the legitimate account holder.

>The account history is an interesting point

Yeah, and they just glance right over it. It doesn't mean anything for my case that I've been an active user with this account for almost two years (I had a previous account for a bit and then left Discord because I was not in any communities worth sticking around for). Never have I done anything wrong on Discord's platform; haven't uploaded any lolis or evaded any bans (I believe I was only banned from one guild, even). They just don't seem to want me as a user, and that's fine.




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