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

  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    These assholes forget that people need to use VPNs in many situations. All the bitch ass corporate folks that never have to use their computers in a coffee shop, etc. Fuck spez.

    • kenopsik@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      It goes much deeper than just coffee shops and other public wifi. There are people in oppressive countries that have to use VPNs to get around their country-wide bans of certain sites, such as anything that provides access to information. Reddit used to be a sanction for tons of information sharing. But now, with Reddit going public, they have to appeal to their shareholders, who probably have business or other deals in those oppressive countries. So, even if Reddit is simply trying to force users to be trackable, it still behooves the shareholders to make information and knowledge more difficult to access to certain people.

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      You can still use the site via VPN if you’re logged in. Which is really the entire point. They don’t actually care if you’re using a VPN; It’s just another method to force people to make an account, so the “active accounts” number looks good to shareholders.

      • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Then Reddit’s notice should say that instead of scolding sbout VPNs. This problem is not simply with Reddit and a login, it is pervasive. Hell, even lemmy.world blocks vpn connections from making new comments, often.

        • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Then Reddit’s notice should say that instead of scolding sbout VPNs.

          It-… Uhh… It does say that. It’s literally the second sentence in the body of the notice, and even has a link to create an account. Did you even read past the title?

            • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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              3 months ago

              It doesn’t actually mention VPNs at all. It simply says you were blocked due to a network policy, and offers potential solutions ranging from “try logging in” to “if you’re doing fucky things with your user agent, maybe try not doing fucky things with your user agent.”

                • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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                  3 months ago

                  Your point was that it’s scolding users for using a VPN. It’s explicitly not doing that. Yes, they’re actively working against VPN usage, but your original statement was still incorrect.

        • Zak@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Lemmy.world handles that particularly poorly, probably because they’re a nonprofit with a shoestring budget.

          The most obvious improvement would be to accept comments when the account meets a certain age and activity threshold.

  • cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    And I just discovered this some weeks ago. The “woah there, pardner!” is so cringeworthy.

    • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 months ago

      To me it sounds like a racist, homophobic Southern US citizen that likes to tote their guns and “defend” their property through the Castle doctrine because freedom (fuck yeah!).

      Actually the perfect encapsulation of the brainrot on reddit.

    • jkrtn@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      The whole website is cringe. It has some of the best little communities are on there, but they are the exceptions. Most of it is power-tripping mods and disingenuous arguments from far-right lunatics on a foundation of “narwhal bacon lol.”

    • Cheradenine@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 months ago

      On Android you can use Stealth . That’s what I use for searches that pull up Reddit posts.

      It also lets you subscribe to subs without having an account if you want. You actually do not have the option to sign in on Stealth.

      ETA: this works with VPNs and Orbot

        • Cheradenine@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          3 months ago

          I only get the ‘something went wrong’ error when a post has been scraped, then deleted. So you go to load it but it no longer exists.

          I just tried it again before replying and it worked fine for me.

          • Corroded@leminal.spaceEnglish
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            3 months ago

            Not the original person replying but I tried it as well and opening the app gives me the same error message.

            There’s a message at the bottom that says

            Stealth might stop working soon

            that when clicked says

            Considering it talks about old.reddit.com I imagine the VPN issue is effecting it as well.

            • Cheradenine@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              3 months ago

              It is odd, it still works fine for me.

              That notice has been there since the third party change. Under ‘Data’ - ‘Reddit Source’ I had to change it from ‘Teddit’ to ‘Reddit’. Teddit stopped working quite soon after the API change.

              • Corroded@leminal.spaceEnglish
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                3 months ago

                It seems to not be effecting all VPN connections, I’m wondering if yours just hasn’t been blocked yet?

  • jaschen@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Errrr, I use bing and just click the cache button instead. I have to use a VPN for work and it’s annoying to turn it off just to see one thing on reddit.

  • communism@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    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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      3 months ago

      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.

      • Marin_Rider@aussie.zone
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        3 months 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

      • Pussista@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        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.

      • communism@lemmy.ml
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        3 months ago

        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.

      • Gnorv@feddit.de
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        3 months ago

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

          • delirious_owl@discuss.online
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            3 months ago

            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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              3 months ago

              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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                3 months ago

                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.

    • circuscritic@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      VPNs don’t prevent tracking, especially when you’re logging into services.

      They can help obfuscate your identity to varying degrees, but honestly this is a pretty odd decision. I’m guessing it has more to do with malicious activity, or some other type of activities that Reddit is trying to curtail, and they feel blocking VPN IP ranges will help them.

      • fishos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Many users don’t log in. After the fall of the 3rd party apps, I only use the rdx webapp if I want to view reddit. I don’t log in with an account at all anymore. So all of my data looks like some anon browsing from the same VPN server as hundreds of other anons. Yes they can analyze all of that traffic and individualize it, but that takes work. I’m glad to make them expend more effort, even if they get the same data in the end. Every step that makes it less cost effective for them is better, even if not perfect.

  • feoh@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Good. The more they abuse their user base the more people will look for alternatives. Hello Lemmy! :)

  • EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    whoa there pardner

    People who write “funny” error messages should be tied to a tree and have old circut boards thrown at their feet

    • madcaesar@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Error pages are a point where something bad happened, so the user is already in a bad mood. A shitty joke just makes the situation worse.

      The only time I can remember enjoying novelty error messages is for 404 not found pages. It’s usually stuff like the Google T-Rex thing, or I’ve seen an astronaut floating in space, stuff like that.

      • rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml
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        3 months ago

        If there’s one thing I learned working in IT it’s that devs actively half-ass their error messages, routinely misspell critical words you’re gonna grep for in logs, and never even consider having someone in Product read over customer-facing error messages like this. All they see is a Jira ticket that says “include the following verbiage in the VPN rejection message” that was typed up by a mostly plastered PM one afternoon after they downed 3 margaritas at “lunch” at the taqueria next to their office. And then they just copy and paste that shit into whatever bullshit HTML template took the least effort to find.