Lemmy@lemm.ee to Privacy@lemmy.ml · edit-27 months agoReddit started blocking VPN users on old.reddit.comlemm.eeimagemessage-square223fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1imageReddit started blocking VPN users on old.reddit.comlemm.eeLemmy@lemm.ee to Privacy@lemmy.ml · edit-27 months agomessage-square223fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareKid_Thunder@kbin.socialcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoIt is likely someone using the same VPN service using the same server or server on the same subnet was scraping data or similar and got blocked. Therefore you are too.
minus-squareRandoCalrandian@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoYeah I get that occasionally, swapping to another endpoint fixes it right up
minus-squaredelirious_owl@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoI like how Activity Pub encourages sharing of content while annoying companies like reddit for stupid reasons see this activity as bad. If they dont want me to scrape, then why dont they just expose a rate limited public & free API…
It is likely someone using the same VPN service using the same server or server on the same subnet was scraping data or similar and got blocked. Therefore you are too.
Yeah I get that occasionally, swapping to another endpoint fixes it right up
I like how Activity Pub encourages sharing of content while annoying companies like reddit for stupid reasons see this activity as bad.
If they dont want me to scrape, then why dont they just expose a rate limited public & free API…
Because money.