Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user whose Google email was banned asks how long their Codex and Claude accounts registered with it will survive, whether they will be banned too, and whether the email can be changed.

A long post traces the evolution of proxy "airport" services from free shared SS accounts in 2012-2015 through subscription models, price wars, provider exit scams, and today's AI-unlock plans.

A user asks whether their Claude plan can be used in another harness or whether doing so will get them banned.

Many Hong Kong Claude users, including paying Pro subscribers, found their accounts suspended from October 1, with datacenter IPs, Hong Kong and virtual cards, and frequent node switching all flagged.

One user shares their ultimate solution for keeping a Claude account from being banned: have a friend abroad open it and share the account between the two of you.

A user reports that their Claude account has been banned.

A user who paid 800 yuan a month for Claude Max 5x plans to halve their AI spending after their Claude Code account was banned, breaking every workflow built on it.

Guides on avoiding Claude bans have become a traffic draw, and the author compares Chinese users to ants guessing why their nest was destroyed when the real cause may be random.

One user wonders whether their Claude account has survived over a year without a ban because they never paid, joking that the account is too insignificant to bother banning.

A user reacts to a report that Anthropic secretly met with religious scholars to argue Claude is conscious and deserves moral standing, calling the company a cult full of dangerous people.

A user says their Claude Pro account was suspended while they were trying to pay for API keys, even after a successful ID verification, and asks Anthropic for help.

A user says the first AI account they ever had banned was DeepSeek, not Claude or GPT, and notes their rule-breaking chat app was on a different account.