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Reddit started blocking VPN users on old.reddit.com (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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At this point, I'm not even going to bother trying to go on there anymore.

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[–] 36 points 2 years ago (5 children)

To clarify, you can still use old reddit logged in with a VPN, but they no longer allow you to browse logged out with a VPN. Still bad of course. But if you're willing to log in you don't have to turn off your VPN. You can sign up with a throwaway/obfuscated email if needs be

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  • [–] 52 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I just, don't visit reddit anymore.

    Problem solved...

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Sadly, when researching problems or interests, often Redditposts have useful info.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Try Rdx, it's great for read access to Reddit.

    More info in the GitHub repo.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Not a solution, it gives error:

    Can't load content! There can be multiple reasons for this, your browser's aggresive privacy settings may be blocking the one call to reddit.com RDX makes. This happens usually when you use a VPM/Proxy and/or a privacy focused browser like Firefox. Play around with privacy/tracking options or change your browser. If it still doesn't work click the feedback link and send me some info.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Anything that says their website is broken because Firefox is automatically discredited in my book, especially when they recommend switching away from it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Hey I am the developer of RDX. I don't care what browser you use but reddit does. It's reddit that is blocking VPN users. RDX only makes a call to Reddit's read-only feed to display content without their ads and popups and login restrictions. It does not claim to be a proxy for Reddit.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    This site works as an app it forces the browser to download content directly from reddit and doesn't proxy it

    firefox blocks reddit thinking that these are trackers (technically, I think these are trackers, but which transmit content) the site works fine if you disable tracking protection in firefox

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Oh ya for sure. I deleted my account, and moved here never intending to look back. I have clicked on a couple reddit links since I left but I really try not too. Like I'd say 5 times maybe. In the end if I need info and that's the only place...

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    This is an oversimplification of the problem. Many times a search engine returns useful results inside reddit. You're not going there because you love reddit as a platform, but because you need something that someone posted in there.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Not necessarily.

    My primary account was banned from Reddit. (I suggested arson as a way of solving the early stages of a Nazi infestation in a neighborhood, and Reddit claimed this was "instigating violence", as though Nazis were humans.) They also banned all of my alternate accounts. Any account that i tried to open--regardless of which computer I used, browser, VPN, e-mail address, etc.--also ended up getting banned. I think that they must have been doing some kind of hardware fingerprinting that I wasn't able to get around, even with canvas blocker etc., and any computer that I'd used to log into Reddit on my primary account was linked to that account, and hence banned from creating an account.

    It took a while, but I did manage to overwrite every single post and comment I'd made in the last 10+ years for that account.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    regardless of which computer I used

    That's really bizarre. I wonder how they did that. So a different computer on a different network with a different email address and everything would still get you banned for ban evasion?

    Really creepy too, obviously they're keeping a lot of data on you to be able to be that thorough.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Notably, computers that I'd previously used to log in to my banned account. I strongly suspect that if I'd used my wife's laptop to log in to my banned account, then she would have seen her account banned as well for 'ban evasion'.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Have you tried registering an account through the Tor browser? If they banned you on that as well, then that’s either creepy as hell, or something is wrong with your setup.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    had the same issue. built a new pc and was able to access it fine, just gotta be careful not to use reddit on any device my old account was present on.

    the funny thing is, I'm not even using a VPN or doing anything to mask my identity. it seems to be purely hardware recognition

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I thought reddit require an email to create an account

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