Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A satirical post casts Claude as God and Dario as the pope, joking that mainland users have split into sects with different rituals, and getting one wrong brings the divine punishment of a suspended account.

The author criticizes Anthropic for banning users indiscriminately with no refunds, saying heavy Claude users risk bans yet still have to reopen accounts because difficult work depends on Claude.

This user says Anthropic bans accounts regardless of nationality and gives no refunds, but hard work still relies on Claude, forcing repeated account swaps, which they describe as keeping users on a leash.

The poster says his Claude accounts ran for over half a year by using self-registered Google accounts, buying gift cards through his own Apple ID, and avoiding black-market cards, and shares tips on reopening with the same email after deletion and appealing a mistaken ban.

The author says their Claude ban-avoidance guide on linux.do was hidden four times, argues personal ban avoidance has a high barrier, and started a group to share ban experiences.

The author contrasts ChatGPT's subscriptions, which can legally be shared across tools, with Anthropic's Claude, which gets accounts banned at the slightest sign of sharing.

After their Claude Code account was banned, the author bought the $100 Codex plan and found its quota drains much faster than Claude's Opus 5.5, which still had usage left.

The poster recommends running Claude through the Orca orchestrator on a US cloud host, saying the lack of local login and IP issues makes bans very unlikely.

A user says adding a Google account inside the Claude app registered a new account without KYC, and has signed up several spares after a previous ban.

One user sarcastically remarks that they won't get banned because they don't use Claude, reflecting the mood amid a wave of account suspensions.

After a client praised Claude Pro and dismissed Codex, their account was banned the next morning, so they bought another and lowered a detection score to try to keep it alive.

Anthropic's updated supported-regions policy bars users located in mainland China and related entities, taking effect on November 12, 2026.