# Why is reddit creating new accounts for me?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-reddit-creating-new-accounts-for-me/927649>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 9, 2020, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-reddit-creating-new-accounts-for-me/927649 "2020-12-09T15:27:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-reddit-creating-new-accounts-for-me/927649/1 "2020-12-09T15:27:37Z")

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I have a reddit account already. That being said about 6 weeks ago I clicked on a link that sent me to reddit. Note I did not know the link would do that. After that I got spammed by Reddit updates to the email linked to my account. It had created a new account for me linked to my account email which seemed to be a server generated name (two words with a number). OK I go through the steps to blow it out. Now today I got an update from my “reddit account”. Reddit created another account and linked it to my email. I blow that out and think, "Hmmmm. Maybe I should make sure my real account and make sure that’s ok. So I pull up Reddit and it says Hey welcome back and it set up another account for me. WTF?!

So what’s going on and how do I fix it?

I use Chrome if that matters.

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**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-reddit-creating-new-accounts-for-me/927649/2 "2020-12-09T15:41:16Z")

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A quick search turned up this from 6 days ago. I don’t know if it applies to your situation.:

[https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/k5hd1d/automatic\_account\_creation\_via\_google\_should\_be/](https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/k5hd1d/automatic_account_creation_via_google_should_be/)

The answer was this:

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> Go to your Google account settings and search for “authorized sites”, then remove reddit from the list.