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Re: Tell HN: Reddit accounts cancellation/suspension caused by VPN usage

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Post by a_r41 » Thu, Feb 17, 2022, 6:16 AM UTC

azalemeth wrote: post #3

I've been using a VPN continuously since the UK introduced the "Snooper's Charter". VPN usage has risen hugely around the world and it's not uncommon to see (mis)advertising on TV from more disreputable companies like Sophos and NordVPN. Over time, these positions will become increasingly untenable. If everyone uses a VPN or lives behind CGNAT then these kack-handed approaches to "security" won't be seen as being pla…

Could you please elaborate on NordVPN being disreputable? This is the first I'm hearing of this.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit accounts cancellation/suspension caused by VPN usage

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Post by AviationAtom » Thu, Feb 17, 2022, 2:27 PM UTC

kylebenzle wrote: post #204

krono wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shadow banning is such a disgusting practice. It's basically sweeping the "problem" under the rug, whilst leaving the "problem" completely in the dark with regards to what it was they did wrong. It's lazy, it's abusive, and it should be illegal. Edit: to clarify, I'm totally fine with this tool being employed to combat spam(bots). Just not against normal posters/contributors.

HN does the same. I messaged Dang about it and he apologized and un-shadowbanned me. Apparently it was because I had two accounts made from the same IP. On on my laptop and one from my mobile phone.

Looks like you were recently banned, was that what you were referring to, or something different?

I noticed because your comment showed dead.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit accounts cancellation/suspension caused by VPN usage

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Post by grumple » Thu, Feb 17, 2022, 3:06 PM UTC

ziml77 wrote: post #108

grumple wrote: post #50

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How resource intensive / business focused is your product? Lots of people use vpns for work or privacy, I think that method would have a lot of false positives. In cases where trial account usage costs you very little or nothing I'd err on the side of not blocking users.

People don’t use public VPNs for work. The tunnel terminates in the same network that the physical office is on. And using a public VPN from a work machine for privacy is a very bad idea. That’s grounds for termination if they catch you and possibly an even worse issue if the company ends up under investigation for any reason. They’re going to take a very close look at anything of yours they can get access to since i…

What do you mean by public VPN? Do you mean free proxies? I'm talking about paid private vpns like expressvpn. The p in vpn stands for private so that's a bit redundant. Your traffic is still encrypted, these vpns can't run a MITM attack on you.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit accounts cancellation/suspension caused by VPN usage

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Post by blindmute » Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 10:31 PM UTC

hajile wrote: post #215

knome wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How would that even work? Moderators don't have access to any lists of users that have subscribed to their subreddits.

Don't forget that this is a company where the CEO can apparently go in and edit other user's posts for revenge and he was put in place and tolerated because he was somehow better than the person in charge before him. Just posting in the "wrong" sub can get you banned all across the platform (no matter what you actually said). Of course, this violates several of the Reddit mod TOS/guidelines, but Reddit doesn't care.…

Worse than an echo chamber, it's an intentionally curated propaganda site. At least in an echo chamber you could scroll down to see the unpopular posts.