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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 lxgr »

tootie wrote: post #36
sunshine_reggae wrote: post #32

Yes, 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.

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).

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

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Post by swed420 »

sunshine_reggae wrote: post #32

Yes, 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.

Agreed. The manipulation became obvious with the capital fueled shareblue / "correct the record" campaign from Dems years ago and has only gotten worse since.

The stated purpose of CTR was to defend against Trump, but it was of course also abused to help sabotage Sanders. A tool like this will always be abused to perpetually elevate capital interests over human interests.

Whatever solution everybody jumps to, it needs to somehow prevent this behavior because it's not going to stop on its own.

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

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Post by rrr_oh_man »

sunshine_reggae wrote: post #32

Yes, 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 love /r/askhistorians, though. Excellent posts.

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

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Post by karaterobot »

I gladly quit Reddit more than five years ago, but have found myself edging back into it because the most active communities for two of my interests happen to be there. At first I would go a couple times a month to read updates, then a couple times a week, then I started logging in to my old account so that I didn't have to type in the URLs, and then not long ago I found myself writing a comment.

So, I'm sort of glad Reddit is adding an obstacle to recidivism. I don't think they're doing it to help me, but that's the net effect.

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

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Post by thih9 »

kogir wrote: post #21

Everything works fine via iCloud private relay. No account or other mitigations required. So perhaps it’s not VPNs that are blocked and instead the traffic you’re sharing an IP with.

That is a possibility. Then again, another user reported icloud private relay not working[1].

Thresholds, location constraints, or ab testing could be at play too.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39884164

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

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Post by rrr_oh_man »

TomSwirly wrote: post #5
keepamovin wrote: post #2

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…

> "Woah, there pardner." Cutesie error messages aren't funny even the first time, and by the tenth time they are wildly annoying. > if you just create an account "Just"

Reminds me of Jurassic Park

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

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Post by keepamovin »

thih9 wrote: post #41
keepamovin wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OK, I don't know. Did you try just visiting some random reddit website from the remote browser I provided? edit: I just tried again on a fresh CloudTabs browser and I could successfully create an account and sign in to reddit. So this does work! What did you try? I think it might matter how you arrive at reddit. Try going through the address bar search to a sub you like, rather than pasting in a direct "login to redd…

My setup doesn’t include a remote browser and I’d prefer not to add one. I listed what I’m using - safari desktop, nordvpn, the sign up link that I checked is in the grandparent comment. This worked earlier for me, now it doesn’t.

No worries! That must suck that you can't get on reddit via vpn.

I noticed the change a while ago, but was like 'blargh old still works'. So I really appreciated your post today that old no longer works!

Re connecting: I'm just sayin you can still connect to reddit over a remote IP if you login/signup per my tests.

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

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Post by butz »

sunshine_reggae wrote: post #32

Yes, 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.

There still is a lot of useful information posted on Reddit. Was it scraped somewhere for preservation purposes?
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