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Losing the VPN crowd will cost them next to nothing.
Only because they've already lost most of what is actually valuable (to most early users; maybe not to advertisers).
There are many many users who were not early users who find Reddit very useful and a positive in their daily lives.
It's been a while that VPNs were blocked on the main website. But I have noticed this since a week that old.reddit.com subdomain has been included. The next step for Reddit would be a complete Login wall like Instagram and co. I would be happy if they do, because it will save my time more (like twitter).
> I would be happy if they do, because it will save my time more (like twitter). Why is that? If you don't have enough self-control to not use Reddit, a login wall won't stop you.
Honestly, they jumped the shark years ago. It’s Digg 4.0 at this point.
FWIW I too am unable to access reddit using my home (residential) IP. I've never had an account there, so I have no idea why they would block my IP. I also haven't scraped anything, ever. Previously I could access old.reddit.com, but now that's blocked too. I also can't create an account -- I get "403 forbidden", even if I specify an email address and clear my cookies. I even created a support ticket about this a few…
That is an interesting development.
I wonder how much overblocking there is? Every time Cloudflare says they have block a huge number of attacks/bots/whatever, I wonder how many are false positives?
This is IP based blocking. You can get around it by creating a Reddit account, or logging in. I Just did that on my remote browser app, the demo of which is here: https://puter.com/app/cloudtabs-browserbox If you read past the "Woah, there pardner." You'll see a paragraph that says, Try logging in or creating an account here to get back to browsing. This works. You can use reddit if you just create an account or sign…
Edit: parent commenter seems to be promoting their product. Looks like a random remote browser, perhaps avoid entering important credentials there. Didn't work for me. I tried creating an account[1] moments ago; after filling out the form and submitting, I got back: "an error occurred (status: 403)". [1]: https://old.reddit.com/login/
It's been a while that VPNs were blocked on the main website. But I have noticed this since a week that old.reddit.com subdomain has been included. The next step for Reddit would be a complete Login wall like Instagram and co. I would be happy if they do, because it will save my time more (like twitter).
> I would be happy if they do, because it will save my time more (like twitter). Why is that? If you don't have enough self-control to not use Reddit, a login wall won't stop you.
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As an aside, I get irritated as all heck by the old, previously useful reddit threads that now show up in search results but with the actually useful information deleted by someone in a fit of rage. This is frustrating, since the information is not necessarily easy to find somewhere else. Or at all. If you find that you must do this, could you at least re-host your answers elsewhere and link to them?
Yes, this is incredibly frustrating. I wonder if we've surpassed "peak publicly searchable discussion". It definitely seems harder to find quick answers to obscure topics than it used to be 2-3 years ago. LLMs will gladly hallucinate something, but given that this stuff is literally the training data that could help ground them in truth, I wonder where we're going to go next.
But unlike the previous poster, who blames the information creator for revoking what they published, why are we not blaming the actual abusers? Every site that is build on growth, Facebook, Google, Reddit, et al eventually turns into an authoritarian capitalist nightmare dystopia. Gobble up, lock down, and extract wealth.
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Only because they've already lost most of what is actually valuable (to most early users; maybe not to advertisers).
> Only because they've already lost most of what is actually valuable (to most early users; maybe not to advertisers). There are many many users who were not early users who find Reddit very useful and a positive in their daily lives.