At this point, I’m not even going to bother trying to go on there anymore.

  • Deckweiss@lemmy.world
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    6 个月前

    there is libreddit with multiple public instances, for example https://libreddit.lunar.icu

    No clue how long it will take until they block that as well, but for now it works with VPN.

    You can use a browser plugin for automatically redirecting.

  • communism@lemmy.ml
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    6 个月前

    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

    • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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      6 个月前

      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.

      • communism@lemmy.ml
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        6 个月前

        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.

      • Pussista@sh.itjust.works
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        6 个月前

        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.

      • Marin_Rider@aussie.zone
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        6 个月前

        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

      • Zoidberg@lemm.ee
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        6 个月前

        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.

      • Gnorv@feddit.de
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        6 个月前

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

          • delirious_owl@discuss.online
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            6 个月前

            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.

            • Pussista@sh.itjust.works
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              6 个月前

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

              • overdevs@lemmy.world
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                6 个月前

                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.

        • dmtalon@infosec.pub
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          6 个月前

          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…

  • Gingerlegs@lemmy.world
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    6 个月前

    I’m still able to get in but I’ve only checked because of this post, lol

    Edit: I use Proton (not logged in)

    • Imprudent3449@lemm.ee
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      6 个月前

      I’ve been blocked before. I would guess it happens if the IP your using got banned due to some user violation or abuse. But I don’t know.

    • unlucky@lemmy.world
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      6 个月前

      I occasionally get IP blocked with Proton. Previously I just toggled the random button a few times until it let me through, but Proton seems to have removed that in the latest update for no readily apparent reason.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      6 个月前

      It’s easy to disable a VPN remotely though, especially on handheld devices.

      All you need to is to point the user to a post or a website that is bloated with JS and contains high rez images and/or video.

      The device then has to either begin paging memory like crazy - or more likely - begins to kill background processes that it thinks are not used by the foreground apps (e.g. your VPN).

      For newer smartphones this is less of an issue, since their RAM can handle it. For > 5 year old smartphones though? They might struggle.

        • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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          6 个月前

          In theory, yes. In practice, I can definitely tell you that the kill-switch service gets killed too, despite whatever level of niceness it’s assigned.

                • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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                  6 个月前

                  I’m happy it works flawless for you man, and I’m sure on official Lineage builds which are as close as possible to AOSP things work exactly as you say.

                  I have an unofficial Lineage 18 ROM patched to hell to work with my old phone. All I can do is tell you what I see, and what I see is that when my phone tries to play a 720p or higher video, with an impossibly high bit-rate for the phone, the phone starts to aggressively background-kill apps, and that includes my VPN.

                  Again, happy it works for you, and I agree that in principle the default route should point to nothing if the VPN dies. On my device, when the virtual network device of the VPN goes down, it drops to the default network and finds another gateway.

      • delirious_owl@discuss.online
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        6 个月前

        You run your VPN on your router to fix this. Then every device on your network are forced through the tunnel, and this risk does not exist.

      • delirious_owl@discuss.online
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        6 个月前

        If you run a VPN app, you can use AFWall to force all traffic through the VPN. So if the VPN app isn’t running for some reason, the apps set to only go through the VPN service will have no internet access.

  • Kid_Thunder@kbin.social
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    6 个月前

    It is likely someone using the same VPN service using the same server or server on the same subnet was scraping data or similar and got blocked. Therefore you are too.

  • Mikina@programming.dev
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    6 个月前

    Same issue. I guess I’m never going back there. I’ve already stopped doing it, but from time to time a question I was researching let me to Reddit.

    What’s the best tool to delete your account, while also overriding all of your posts and comments?