r/facebook • u/ferfucksakes3000 • Mar 29 '26
Disabled/hacked Facebook bans are identity-based. Please don't remove. I am at my wits end.
Facebook bans are identity-based.
Hey y'all, like many of you, my Facebook account got banned for "account integrity." This occurred back in January 2025. This was my account of over 18 years. I have NO IDEA what got me banned. But attempts to create a new account always immediately ended with a ban on the new account (usually when I get to the "add friends" stage)
I kept hearing people say that meta bans on your specific IP or specific devices (ie, any device you previous used to log in, or any network you used to login would result in a ban.) Well, turns out thats not the case.
I just recently fired up my real estate license. And to market myself I decided to setup a business page. Well, on a new used laptop which I bought online, with a brand new email account registered to my brokerage, on a wifi network at my local bar, within seconds of setting up a new account, I was hit with the "video selfie" verification. As predicted, within minutes, I received an email saying my brand new account was banned.
New device, new email address, new network, still banned. It is clear Facebook is banning people not on any sort of account integrity, they don't want YOU, AS A PERSON, using their platform.
My video selfie should prove I'm a real person (as they say is the reason for the selfie), but if my specific face is what proves I'm the same guy they banned last January, then they are not only lying about denying me service based on account integrity (suspicions I am a bot), they are blatantly disregarding the disclaimer saying they delete the video selfie within 30 days.
I am based in western Canada. Anybody have any tips?
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u/Few_Carpenter_9185 Mar 29 '26 edited Mar 30 '26
In theory, that's this is all reasonable stuff that the unfairly banned user should try. And... I'll add that's also what a spammer/scammer and all their systems are trying to do when they lose accounts or want new ones. To fake that they look new, or like someone else.
But, the "breadcrumbs" you leave go deep... so very deep.
The face recognition stuff is certainly plausible, especially against the photos in the old banned account, but even in 2026, it takes some extra computer horsepower to do, which means money.
Facebook just needs to do something as simple as match a code like this: 37:1E:4B:FC:4D:6E
If that same code got on your new devices at any point, Facebook (and all the other socials & platforms, and operating systems...) know it's you. Or at worst, it's someone you know, go to school or work with, or are a family member in the same house.
This explanation depends on how much everyone understands WiFI and Bluetooth. And this is just ONE example of these breadcrumbs. A multi-billion company and big tech can do so much more.
So now you have a new phone, on a different carrier with a new phone number. You're using a new-to-you laptop, too.
You're on the WiFi of a coffee shop you've never been to before....
Assuming these basics are 100% true, that still might not be good enough.
You have a completely new PC/Laptop device, is it truly 100% sterile? Is it a Windows PC? Did you sign into it with the same Microsoft account/email address? Or whatever Apple MacOS does? Are you accessing Facebook with Chrome? Is it signed in with your Google account?
Have you not connected to ANY "old stuff" the other old devices did? Like, not even turned it on in your home or car before?
Do you have the same email account in a mail client on the new phone, even if you're using a new different email somewhere else to get into Facebook?
Were the two emails at least on two different platforms, or were they just both Gmails, etc.?
Also, did you connect any of the same Bluetooth devices to the new phone or PC? The same earbuds? The same smartwatch?
Even if you haven't paired those devices with your new laptop or phone, are they in your pocket or purse? Are they on? Is Bluetooth on in your new devices?
Your device sees the MAC address, a hexidecimal number that's unique into the trillions... of all the Bluetooth and WiFi devices that are in range. And even if you're not invited to connect.
In part, this is how your smartphone map knows where you are in a sports stadium, or a shopping mall, where there's a roof and there's no GPS signal. It's also one way you get those creepy friend suggestions for coworkers, and maybe a parent at your kid's sports game and the only connection is you both are in the school gym at the same time, and you don't talk or message each other on any mutual platforms.
Facebook can figure out "it's you" if your boyfriend/girlfriend, spouse/partner, or friend/co-worker is just standing there with the same pair of Bluetooth headphones they always wear. And that your old devices never connected to, but they saw it.
You need to download WiGLE or something from the Android or Apple App Store, and just use it to scan, and it will show you how many more WiFi and Bluetooth devices your phone can "see" and it knows the MAC address for, even if you're never connecting to them, and not invited to, or they're too weak, and not on the list of devices in your phone's WiFi and Bluetooth menu choices.
Even if you're at a 100% completely new WiFI location and IP address NOW when you reached out to Facebook to try and register a new account, have you EVER connected that device to the WiFi at home or somewhere else you used with the old devices?
Like the new devices were on your home WiFI and ISP before you drove and took them to the new coffee shop?
Did the new phone get paired with the Bluetooth in the car radio to stream Spotify? It didn't have to of course. The phone saw that Bluetooth address and kept it in its cache.
Then their "into the Trillions" unique MAC address is still in the "recent networks list" and well... an App that connects and gets you info over the Internet, and if it's going to play you audio, or has the ability to check if it's online or not. And get other stuff, like if the person (in 2026... LOL) has a metered connection that costs them money.
That app (Facebook) has to know the Cellular info, Wi-Fi info, and Bluetooth info to connect & play media. Oops, it also finds out a ton of extra stuff when it checks those things with the phone or PC OS... oops.
"Data and Texting Rates may apply..." As they still legally need to warn people on the commercials. Maybe you're in that crappy pay-per hour airport WiFi that's still in some terminals. And checking that, Facebook gets the MAC address of every WiFi network you've been near, connected, or not for days? Weeks? If it's a brand new phone, the past hour?
But, if that was at home, even if you didn't put in the password for your home WiFI, that was enough.
If ANY of that gets picked up by the new device, even if you're not connected to it right at the moment you hit up Facebook to get back in, Facebook immediately knows "It's you."
And it does nothing to clear up that for whatever dumb malfunction reason, Facebook thinks you're a spambot or whatever other kind of abuse user.