At this point, I’m not even going to bother trying to go on there anymore.
Only the investors matter now
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.
Libreddit is discontinued and due to draconian API limits most instances rarely work
One could use one of the Lemmy instance dedicated at mirroring reddit (ex: https://lemmit.online/) as a workaround I suppose.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
I just, don’t visit reddit anymore.
Problem solved…
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.
Sadly, when researching problems or interests, often Redditposts have useful info.
Try Rdx, it’s great for read access to Reddit.
More info in the GitHub repo.
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.
Anything that says their website is broken because Firefox is automatically discredited in my book, especially when they recommend switching away from it.
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.
What’s a VPM?
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…
I thought reddit require an email to create an account
Not if you go through old.reddit.
Oh wow I botched that I meant to say didnt*
Just leave it blank.
Just tried it without login and for me it works with vpn (proton)
PSA: you still don’t need an email to register. Simply register via old.reddit.
USE EU VPNs let them block the EU.
I’m not your pardner, buddy.
I’m not your buddy, pal!
I’m not you pal, guy!
Use Redlib front end should be able to open reddit. Some instances don’t work, but you there are many that work. I use this extension: https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension
I’m still able to get in but I’ve only checked because of this post, lol
Edit: I use Proton (not logged in)
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.
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.
The hurensohn getting his own damn way with just about everything. 🤬🤬🤬
old.reddit.com (and the .onion one) works in the Tor Browser, for me at least. I am not logged in
I wonder if the Tor version of Reddit still works
https://forum.torproject.org/t/reddit-onion-service-launch/5305
what an absolute garbage site it has turned into
I looked up to see is my VPN is connected. It is. Good. Moving right along.
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.
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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.
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I’m not going to dox myself but I can tell you that it’s a near daily occurrence for me on Lineage 18 (Android 11) on my phone with 2GB RAM.
Here is a related issue from 10 months ago, for an android TV device:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ShieldAndroidTV/comments/13st92f/vpn_app_disconnecting_in_background/
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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.
laughing in ublock
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.
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.
Who told you this?
Not sure why you’re getting downvotes. I’ve seen VPN apps get background killed on some devices.
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Hmm, I’ve had that fail on some cheap Chinese phones. They have other software that kills things in the background irrespective of the setting. I developed a VPN client and was never truly able to solve this problem on some low memory devices.
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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.
I like how Activity Pub encourages sharing of content while annoying companies like reddit for stupid reasons see this activity as bad.
If they dont want me to scrape, then why dont they just expose a rate limited public & free API…
Because money.
Yeah I get that occasionally, swapping to another endpoint fixes it right up
Oh, they did this with my actual ip lol don’t know what I did
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?
I havent tried it, but I was told about Redact. It replaces all of your post with gibberish.
Please do not do this. Not creating new content is the best option.
Why, though? I have helpful answers in many threads, giving support about arcane issues people have been dealing with. I don’t want this content to be monetized further.
Nah, just migrate it to some other site
Or you could leave it to rot. You are deleting history
I only go there on accident.