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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

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Post by yieldcrv »

pmdr wrote: post #133

We were told that the boycotts last year were the end of reddit, or at least a substantial brain drain. Reddit was going to be a lawless wasteland because no mod would accept tending the garden anymore. Reddit is now a public company with a CEO that just got a huge compensation package while mods still work for free. Far from lawless, far from being a wasteland. Even the hacker community is still using reddit despite…

Populist protests usually fail, they only get their way when moneyed special interests are also lobbying for the same policy change out of coincidence, their interests usually pass regardless of public interest or not

People waste their energy and call it “using their platform”, or just reminding people how irrelevant and inconsequential they are but bragging about it

Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included

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Post by pmdr »

jazzyjackson wrote: post #196
asdff wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More active users than ever before just in the last 2 quarters of 2023 after stagnating for years. Its almost like the API thing backfired and that bad press was in fact good press and got more people onto reddit.

> more people how are you so sure the extra traffic is from people?

VPNs, datacenters and Tor are pretty much blocked and API costs money, plus everyone I know uses it nowadays. I think it's mostly legit traffic.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included

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Post by stepupmakeup »

ink_13 wrote: post #126
soraminazuki wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed, surrendering our privacy is anything but "just."

Given how easy it is to create a reddit account I don't know how much privacy is being surrendered in practical terms

Creating a reddit account took 25 seconds and they even generated a username for me. No email verification necessary, sorry to a@example.com if you're getting emails about reddit user "Agile_Rectangle729"

Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included

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Post by maqdev »

perihelions wrote: post #74

So, 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.

They're not blocking VPN access. They're blocking scraping and avoiding their API limits, VPN is side-effect of that it seems. If you login, VPN works fine.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included

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Post by INTPenis »

It's getting harder and harder to be anonymous on reddit. I used to rotate my accounts every year but now they keep shadowbanning me. So I had to jump through some hoops, and while one VPN was indeed instantly network blocked, another country/server from the same vendor was not.

So eventually I got my new account for 2024 sorted.

But now I'm afraid to login from my regular browser because I'm pretty sure they have it fingerprinted. The only reason I got this far with the account was through Firefox private mode, and creating the account at a friends place.

So I've upgraded Firefox now and hopefully that, and releasing my ISP DHCP IP, will be enough.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included

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Post by water-data-dude »

scarface_74 wrote: post #108
doodlebugging wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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.…

> been cutting way back on my engagement. I have walked back through my post history and edited a bunch of them, using Yossarian's censoring rules - death to all adverbs, nouns, verbs, adjectives - or just replacing the posts with meme text or song lyrics to stupid songs. So you don’t see that you are being part of the problem?

The reason they commented originally was because they wanted to provide value to a community that had provided value to them. Reddit was simply the platform that hosted that community. Their loyalty was never to the platform, it was to the community. When Reddit decided to screw over that community so the execs could get a big payday from the IPO, it sort of broke a social contract.

Letting them keep extracting value out of you is kind of like if you worked at a grocery store, and then they unjustly fired you or a couple of your friends. Now they’re not doing so well, but are you “part of the problem” if you don’t keep shopping there?

No. Screw them.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit now blocks VPN access via browser, 'old' subdomain included

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Post by add-sub-mul-div »

scarface_74 wrote: post #108
doodlebugging wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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.…

> been cutting way back on my engagement. I have walked back through my post history and edited a bunch of them, using Yossarian's censoring rules - death to all adverbs, nouns, verbs, adjectives - or just replacing the posts with meme text or song lyrics to stupid songs. So you don’t see that you are being part of the problem?

The site is systemically bad now. Shitting up or deleting the content is part of the solution, to accelerate the timeline of typical users finding it worthless so that it can die and give rise to something better.
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