You cannot access reddit without either an account, or turning off your VPN. Effectively meaning that it’s difficult to access reddit privately, as they can either track you with IP or with account.
Even alternative frontends like RDX for reddit by @[email protected] don’t solve this issue.
I can’t believe more people haven’t left because of that.
That’s just not true, we go through a VPN at work and it works
I know I’m a data point of one but this seems sporadically applied. Sometimes it works on a vpn without logging in. Sometimes it doesnt.
Yeah it’s annoying AF to get around it, I sadly gave up and logged in.
Some mullvad server aren’t blocked.
Some Proton aren’t either.
What is becoming increasing difficult is Youtube. finding a patched client and the right VPN server is no easy task.
As VPN usage becomes more mainstream I believe “premium” offers will start to appear, offering servers with fewer people, regularly renewed IPs, things like that, for a higher price.
I sometimes have to switch servers to comment on Lemmy
I was about to say, old reddit in browser works fine, but I use Mullvad, so I never noticed. I’m increasingly spending more time here too.
they are probably banning datacenter ip addresses to prevent AI companies from skraping. They want to sell the data for money 🤷♂️
In my case, anytime I used a VPN, my feed wont update.
I wonder if you get banned if you use the TOR Reddit page
No. I’m using Tor for Reddit all the time since they banned VPN. Reddit even has their .onion site
The ones they know about.
Spez (Steve Huffman) moderated a subreddit called /r/jailbait and now he’s adding paywalls to the site. He’s a pedophile with an addiction to greed.
in fairness to spaz, even though he doesn’t deserve it, that was at a time where you didn’t need to approve being added to a sub’s mod team. I believe he tried deleting himself from there, but they kept adding him, which prompted them to implement the approval system. I could be wrong, I don’t know.
I saw spez at the mall one time when I was Christmas early shopping. I recognized him, but I’m not gonna treat a CEO like a celebrity, so I just mind my own business. a while later, I was waiting to get a ticket for the AMC there, Steve Huffman goes up to a kid who is holding popcorn and starts to eat some out of the bucket. The mom tells him to stop and pulls the kid back, but spez just smacks the popcorn out of the kids hands and screams at the mom in the face really loudly (not actual words, literally a scream). popcorn everywhere. the kid is now crying and the mom is at a loss of words and looks so stressed to be in that situation and is about to cry too. At this point, I need to do something. I go up to the situation and tell spez to back off immediately. as a response, he tries to kick me in the balls (missed and tripped a bit), then makes cringry hissing noises.
As much as I dislike the guy, I don’t need fake stories for reasons to hate him. Thank goodness this sounds 100% on-brand for that absolute spaz, no proof needed!
Oh man, I forgot about that. Thanks for reminding me of another reason I hate that guy.
they have a tor hidden service, still seems to work.
every account I made on there got shadowbanned. I made them before they had email as a requirement
I was using a VPN to access F*eddit, after 1 or 2 days i got a permanent red bar on top saying that my account was banned, needless to say reddit is no more my preferred media provider.
This also happened to me, i wondered why i got banned
Which VPN are you using? In most cases it works for me depending on the country I choose.
Happens on corporate VPN too. Morons are blocking themselves. Imagine a corpo user looking for Excel formulas for work and reddit it’s like, ‘fuck outta here’.
Got to keep rotating them servers, it is an endless wack a mole game.
i heard in another site, you have to use anti-detect browsers, plus proxies that arnt static. its very hard to get around reddit anti-spam,botting filters, they have increased thier sensitivity of those methods too.
Admittedly, I only use exit nodes in my state, but they do block Mullvad and Air.
they do block Mullvad
Not well enough it seems. Still reachable for me on some exits, but not all.
Yeah for sure. I’m not motivated enough to see the content over there though so if my current exit node is blocked I don’t even bother with trying to view whatever it was.
Do they have an android app?
no, but the mobile version of the website is just fine. you can also install LibRedirect (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/libredirect/) on Firefox to automatically redirect reddit links to it.
They are slowly killing public access.
They don’t want you using reddit unless you are using with an account tied to real ID.
They want to pump up the number of new accounts and/or monthly active accounts by any means necessary now that the stock price depends on it.
isnt thier Q4 earning, they are reporting, hence the massive bans as of late, gotta look up suck up to investors, who wants to purchase reddit. reddit is on its way to become a FB CLONE. anyone remember Y!Answers(i still think it was the og reddit before people moved there. Y’A was most useful for physics /math, and some science questions from textbooks if you need answers.
I have a feeling they want to be like Facebook, with the aggressive personal info you have to give in order to login, they can lock the content behind the login feature like fb does
you know the drill folks: deny the parasite engagement, seed fedi with discussion.
corpo parasite took the shit poster for granted for too long.
I gotta admit I just discovered Reddit few weeks ago that I spend a bit more time there. Before it was only from Google results when needed.
I don’t know how it was before, but it feels pretty decent now. I don’t have a comparison.
Will be hard to leave Reddit now haha 🙄
remember this comment when you figure out why reddit is fucked haha
prolly under 3 months if you are going to engage on there.
if they can even post/comment as a new user
I’m hearing new users are having a hard time doing that, even if they are not vpn, ban evading or shielding their online metrics from reddit. The spam filter is so aggressive that you can be banned very easily
Actually it turns out my account is 3 years old lol but I started to read it properly few weeks back.
I’m curious to understand it more.
In the meantime I’m exploring Fediverse too 😁
it was way better before, especially they dint force the New UI, you can still use the OLD.reddit feature, which makes it easier to navigate the site. the infinite scroll feature that most social media has now, is not good at all, its also gets very buggy and laggy(if your using it on mobile browser). Also there have been significant ban/purges in the last few months and many accounts were banned. alot of innocent users have been caught in the crossfire, additionally, in my opinion its pretty hostile to new users too, because subreddits have UPPed thier anti-ban evasion ,spam filter, even to the point it harms new users.
Think about this:
Literally all the value of Reddit comes from the users, and most of the moderation comes from volunteers.
That is, everything that made Reddit useful was provided for free.
Now those jackanapes think they’re entitled to create money based on the free labor of millions of people. And what makes that more infuriating is they had the gall to call those volunteers “landed gentry”.
I mean, that is an obvious bullshit, but I thought there’s something else going on there that makes it shit place nowadays.
I mean - capitalism… of course it’s looking to exploit… they couldn’t be content with the ad revenue…
gotta look good for their quartely call, and potentially be sold off eventually. hence the indiscriminate and discriminate banning of accounts.
I created a Reddit account a few days ago (for testing purposes) using MullvadVPN and after many captachas I managed to finalize but the account is shadowbanned. I can access the subreddits but my comments don’t show up for anyone
By the way, fuck Reddit!!!
they automatically shadowban vpn users, i was on another forum that they already had been banning vpn accounts(instant ban) for a while they all switched to using proxies, anti-detection browsers, ISP changes to evade the bans. anyone who have been using it recently will get shadowbanned instantly or eventually, hence the use of different proxies instead. even that is not fool-proof , and people are actually paying to do this(for thier OF accounts)
a way to check if your acc is shadowbanned is logout and incognito and try to look up your user profile(or any other redditors profile, if says missing or suspended, you know), it also can tell if a user has deactivated thier acc.
additionally reddit is currently going through a large purge of accounts as of recently, someone mentioned in another forum that there have been an unusual amount of account bans recently(like 3 in the last 3 months). i lost a couple of accs as a normal users, one of my acc got temp suspeneded, suddenly all my other accounts were immediately permabanned.(apparently some mods are extremely anal about reporting other people)
I think they’re either using google data to link email accounts to phone numbers or using an NLP model to identify users by how they write in the vans.
I hot banned on accounts tied to email addresses I haven’t used in years, logged in from a vpn. Like. 5 email addresses. Many accounts on the email addresses hadn’t been used in years. The only things linking them were a phone number I used for 2fa on google.
It’s the Reddit app. It flags all accounts used to log in on them device.
I now only use the (broken) mobile page
they do the same with you IP too, and additionally if they catch any of your accts, mimicking your other accts, they can put 2 and 2 together.
Yes apparent the app gives them even more info, like you device id , components, Mac address, and it has a anti-vpn measure built in, unlike the browsers
I got like five accounts banned before I figured it out
Don’t use it. Never have.
