Super annoyingly iCloud Private Relay triggers this for me too
Is iCloud Private Relay not Apple's VPN?
Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
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Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
#112So, going forwards—where should someone who lives in a repressive country go, to read and interact with Westerners? Now, practically every social website (*except HN) blocks you if you use a VPN, and you go to prison if you don't. You're twice-walled in.
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#113If you don't need to be logged in, redlib (previously libreddit) works well. Similar to what nitter was to twitter. https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib?tab=readme-ov-file#inst...
https://libreddit.privacydev.net/ works for me.
Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
#114This 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/
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Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
#115It worked with ProtonVPN.
Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
#116It'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.
Totally disagree. Killing my third party app reduced my reddit usage by like 90%. Now I really only use it on my desktop PC.
On mobile, when I tap reddit search results I am never logged in which means I have to go to old.reddit.com to see the full thread and comments. If they added a log in wall I'd just stop tapping reddit results on mobile.
Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
#117Yes, same here. Let's just QUIT using Reddit. Enough is enough. If we tolerate corrupt behavior, we support corrupt behavior. And quite honestly, it's become such a pile of trash, anyway. Also, it's become so obvious that submissions and comments are being manipulated and pushed by tons of bots and industry interests, it's just a bad joke at this point.
I thought we all quit when they disabled API access and ruined Apollo. People are still using Reddit?
Apollo can still be used with sideloading a patch that allows you to enter new API key. As a single user it is hard to get to the limit.
Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
#118Still works on VPN via old.* if you click “comments” link instead of the big blue thread link.
But yeah otherwise concur with the sentiment regarding social media.
HN isn’t much better. Whole lot of vanity and thin skin for a community of “radical truth seekers”.
IMO humans are social but not meant to be social this much
Big tech has yet to crank out a wheel. A technology with a Lindy effect measured in centuries or greater. Just 1900s electronics and on the software side, one state compression and copy-paste protocol after another.
Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
#119Not just VPN/VPS proxy access. They block my home residential IP too if I'm not using a megacorp browser. I opened a ticket about this a couple months ago and despite a few auto-replies assuring me they'd look into it and get back I've received nothing and nothing has changed.
Their ticket system is just there as a tar-pit to dissuade people from contacting them.
Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included
#120Yes, same here. Let's just QUIT using Reddit. Enough is enough. If we tolerate corrupt behavior, we support corrupt behavior. And quite honestly, it's become such a pile of trash, anyway. Also, it's become so obvious that submissions and comments are being manipulated and pushed by tons of bots and industry interests, it's just a bad joke at this point.
>it's become such a pile of trash, anyway. Also, it's become so obvious that submissions and comments are being manipulated and pushed by tons of bots and industry interests, it's just a bad joke at this point. Very true. Over the last few months as more bots and reposters come online you have seen the subreddits bleed back into related subreddits. Most of the posts on /r/popular (landing point for navigating to old.…
> Yossarian's censoring rules
> Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective. The next day he made war on articles. He reached a much higher plane of creativity the following day when he blacked out everything in the letters but a, an and the. (Heller, '61)