Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A poster asks why people accept ban risk to use Claude and whether ChatGPT is simply not good enough.

A thread collecting how mainland Chinese users keep Claude accounts alive, with the OP reporting a year-old Pro account on a US App Store payment and a Vmiss datacenter IP that has never been banned.

A reply suggests asking Claude to write a guide on how to avoid getting banned, then returning to the original topic — ban-wave banter.

The author's Claude account was banned two minutes after switching to a native IP, losing saved prompts; they now use an anti-detect browser with a fixed residential IP and warm up new accounts slowly.

A reply claims Claude bans accounts of Chinese users, and that even switching the interface language to Chinese can trigger a ban.

A reply argues Claude's bans mainly target accounts distilling its models, inevitably hitting ordinary users, and expects fewer false bans as detection improves.

Binding a virtual card on the web often gets rejected or banned, so the author subscribes through a US Apple ID and clean node in the App Store, saying refund appeals via Apple are easier if banned.

A previously banned user warns that Claude is highly sensitive to login-location changes on new accounts, so avoid switching networks when traveling.

A user says three Claude accounts were banned this week and plans to switch to using Claude Max via remote hosting.

A user says their newly purchased KYC-verified Claude account was banned, but news of an RTX 20-series unlock lifted their mood.

A meme contrasts the big three: Claude says the account is banned, ChatGPT says the selected model is at capacity, and Gemini replies it is just a language model.

The author reports that a previously banned Claude account was reinstated after an appeal and asks whether restored accounts can be banned a second time.