Is this new? This is the first time Reddit has ever flagged me for using a VPN, trying to force me into signing in/up.
I was just following some search links, from DDG.
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If you go through my post history you can see I posted the same thing several months ago. If anything we’ve probably given reddit specific information on what VPNs you and I are using.
LibRedirect extension
No, it’s not new. It’s been around for years.
I get this a lot. I use the libredirect browser extension to open reddit pages in libreddit now.
Is libreddit still working? I remember the project was canned with the api changes
It has been forked and it’s called redlib now
I’m not your guy, pal!
I’m not your pal, buddy!
I’m not your buddy, bro!
I’m not your bro, friend!
I’m not your friend, home slice.
I’m not your home slice, my dude.
I’m not the icing in the cake!
The upside of a VPN: you share an IP address with all the other VPN customers, so it’s impossible to pick you out of a crowd.
Tne Dow aide of a VPN: you share an IP address with all the other VPN customers, so it’s impossible to pick you out of a crowd.
One single VPN user on your network can easily get the entire VPN blocked by abusing Reddit and there’s nothing you can do about it. The worst part: Reddit is right to do these IP bans.
I’m surprised they even offer you to sign up for an account to let you work around the VPN block. They must have a lot of faith in their signup CAPTCHA system.
Pretty sure checking a post on their site, say for a BG3 build idea, doesn’t constitute abuse.
The powers that be sacrificed their only value, their user base, to make money quick. We’ll see how it plays out long term, but I’ve moved away from social media. My lemmy use is only on my desktop at this point, and I get precious little time at it, so most of it isn’t spent on lemmy.
The whole point is that the block isn’t about this particular user. Any affordable tool that can be used for anonymity, can and will be abused by malicious people. That’s why Tor is blocked on 90% of websites and why VPN users need to jump through extra hoops so often. If your network offers no way to distinguish you from the guy that keeps uploading videos of children getting raped, your network is getting blocked, simple as that.
For VPN users this is a minor issue, but for people behind CGNAT (which is the standard in many low-income countries these days) that causes huge problems.
I like how you spell “the downside.” It’s very innovative.
A bit too much faith in my autocorrect :p
I can tell you they aren’t just banning IPs for abuse. I have run an OpenVPN server on Linode for years. I am the only one using that IP and it was blocked at some point. They are most likely blocking all known VPS IP blocks. OpenAI does the same thing with Cloudflare for ChatGPT.
Yep, I do the same because of my ISP. I run a WG server from AWS lightsail and only one using the IP. I’m not as blocked as other nodes but I’m still blocked on a few things. Plus eBay doesn’t really work to well.
EBay doesn’t work well in general. Literally the slowest loading website.
I get nothing but the we searched everywhere page. It’s really annoying, as sometimes I’ll get a few pages of results and then it goes to that page. And other times it’s just straight to that page. Home page loads completely fine though.
If you change the www (ie www.reddit.com) to old (ie old.reddit.com) it will let you in under most circumstances
I use kagi.com as a search engine and it automatically does that for links I click on thru them. I think there is a browser extension for Firefox that will do this for you as well.
I use kagi and that hasn’t been happening. Do I need to change a setting?
Yes its a setting. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/redirects.html The help doc actually using old.reddit as an example.
It doesn’t work for me on multiple occasions. Sometimes it works, sometimes it won’t, I don’t know what’s the problems.
I think it only works if the post is old?
for now
One reason I’ve stopped using reddit entirely. They require fingerprinting you. If you do a good job and they can’t fingerprint you, you get that screen. It is NOT blocked by IP of the VPN as some here have said. You can easily see the content through the same VPN while not logged on as long as you have enough identifiable tracking information to reasonably guess who you are.
It’s a great test now. If I’m ever let into view reddit now, I must have seriously screwed up somewhere in my security chain.
I’ve had the same when using a VPN on my PC. Have a look at libredirect, that would probably help with this issue.
Been like this for a little while. If your vpn supports p2p just use that. Or use tor.
“If you VPN supports p2p just use that” what does this mean? Use p2p to access reddit? Is that a thing?
Reddit has blocked certain IP addresses from accessing its website. (In this case VPN IP addresses) you can use a peer 2 peer network through a vpn provider or tor which would not be on reddit block list.
Replace www by old in the url to access old reddit
The bigger problem is asinine mods and you can’t route around them simply by going to old.
