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

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Post by namlem »

lxgr wrote: post #50
zeta0134 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yeah all that discussion is now on non-searchable, ephemeral private discord servers

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

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Post by kps »

zeta0134 wrote: post #42
0cVlTeIATBs wrote: post #27

That's the final blow for me. The last use case was when esoteric discussion there would be one of the few search engine results. I've already long ago edited out all my old posts and deleted the accounts. So sad to see sites grow to become gated advertiser-friendly communities.

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?

That's the reason I haven't erased my Reddit content, so far. (If they go behind a login wall, that reason goes away.)

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

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Post by different_base »

I deleted my Reddit account long back after they blocked VPNs. I used old.reddit.com usually from DDG or Google search results. Now this is fucked up. I am not able to access Reddit through either VPN or Tor. They are dead to me now.

I just want a solution to completely remove Reddit links from appearing in search results. Anyone has any solution?

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

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Post by marcrosoft »

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 thought we all quit when they disabled API access and ruined Apollo. People are still using Reddit?

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

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Post by culopatin »

goplayoutside wrote: post #75
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.

If Lemmy had an automod I'd happily try to move the niche communities I help mod over, but without even the basics (regex rules + mod queue) attempting to mod any sizeable community is ime an exercise in frustration, making Lemmy essentially useless for us. That's a real shame, because otherwise it looks like great software. I've got an offline instance sitting on AWS since last summer just waiting for any bit of pro…

Maybe if I was a teenager again I would spend the time to figure out how to use Lemmy, but at this age: I go in, curiosity takes me to “instances”, I see a million. Click a few, many are dead and I start wondering “wait, I have to navigate through this sea of non descriptive URLs that tell me nothing about the instance to get to the data?”

And even if that’s not true, that’s about where I drop it, because it seems like a big climb for something I already know won’t work as a Reddit replacement because there is no way my friends will be convinced to put this kind of effort, and because it’s hard to discover.

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

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Post by lgvld »

different_base wrote: post #93

I deleted my Reddit account long back after they blocked VPNs. I used old.reddit.com usually from DDG or Google search results. Now this is fucked up. I am not able to access Reddit through either VPN or Tor. They are dead to me now. I just want a solution to completely remove Reddit links from appearing in search results. Anyone has any solution?

uBlacklist maybe? if you use Google for search

https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

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

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Post by cocacola1 »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #35
mfiro wrote: post #19

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.

Untrue in my case. Needing to create a Twitter account stopped me going to the site at all.

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

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Post by redox99 »

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.

Around 2 years ago I got incorrectly banned site wide for 3 days for "ban evasion". Haven't used it ever since (except through google searches). There's no downside to leaving reddit really.

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

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Post by sentientslug »

Kuinox wrote: post #76
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.

The fediverse, lemmy, mastodon.

I suppose that works if you want to interact with the three people on there.
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