This is an issue with all popular VPNs on various websites. VPNs use shared IP addresses so just a few bad actors using that VPN can get it blocked for everyone. I can’t even load Google sometimes without multiple human verification checks.
Let’s not pretend it’s all about “bad actors”. They don’t want masked traffic at all, the “bad actors” gives them an excuse.
And we know this because if the IP was the issue, they wouldn’t let you use after signing in. Any of these VPNs are just fine as long as you’re logged into reddit and identified.
This is an issue with all popular VPNs on various websites. VPNs use shared IP addresses so just a few bad actors using that VPN can get it blocked for everyone. I can’t even load Google sometimes without multiple human verification checks.
Let’s not pretend it’s all about “bad actors”. They don’t want masked traffic at all, the “bad actors” gives them an excuse.
And we know this because if the IP was the issue, they wouldn’t let you use after signing in. Any of these VPNs are just fine as long as you’re logged into reddit and identified.
It seems to me like they blocked all VPN users.
I have the same experience on Mozilla VPN and I didn’t use reddit for a year.
This is reddit blocking all VPNs it can, and only on new reddit.
It has nothing to do with bad actors and everything to do with maximizing user data gathering.