Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

One person proposes placing Mac minis in a friend's US home on residential broadband and charging a monthly fee to give banned Chinese developers a way to keep using Claude.

A user says they rarely used Claude but their account was suddenly banned, and finds the ban logic baffling.

A commenter wonders why people keep trying to take Claude out of its native environment and jokes that only Anthropic would ban accounts for abusing the model.

The user says their first Claude account was banned after three months and the second after just one week, almost identical to the other person's experience.

A user reports no ban for half a month after topping up a real Apple ID with $20, downloading Claude from the US App Store, signing in with Apple ID and subscribing to Pro, and warns against bragging about it.

A post cites data showing Claude's market share at 9.6% amid account bans, with ChatGPT first at 56.4%, and questions Anthropic's business model.

A user says a friend bought a home broadband IP, a cheap overseas VPS, an old router and a second-hand PC to sign up for Claude Pro, then planned to pay with a virtual card, a route that almost always gets accounts banned.

A news roundup says Anthropic disclosed it banned 11.4 million Claude accounts in the first half of the year, that only 10.5% of appeals succeeded, and that from November 12 it will prohibit abusing AI without cause.

A poster questions the figure of 11.4 million Claude accounts banned in half a year, asking who was banned and whether it is really that extreme.

A user says they logged into Claude for a friend using a Japanese phone number, the friend's account was banned immediately, and their own phone number stopped working too.

The poster compares their situation at home and abroad, saying they spend every day figuring out how to keep their Claude account from being banned.

The poster switched to a new Gmail after their wife's second Claude account was banned, and ended up migrating their own decade-old email and all the accounts tied to it.