For a while Reddit dot com has been blocking my browser since I use a VPN, but old reddit was still functional for me. Although I closed my reddit account just after the API-exodus, I still frequent the niche communities which has hyper-specific topics discussed.
Found to my surprise today that they are now blocking old reddit as well if I use a VPN.
Never thought that [old].[reddit].[com] would one day show that f’kin “Whoa there Pardner” page.
Fuck you spez. Really, fuck you.
Which brings me to boil is that they use ‘pardner’.
I’m not your pardner in any way. I just wanted to read an aswer in my search results for a quite specific question.Every time I read this ‘whoa there, pardner’ I want to scream at my screen that they should shut the fuck up.
Same thing happened to me, and I have a dedicated IP with my VPN. Really pissed me off.
Then I thought, wait, what the shit am I doing on reddit anyway? Reddit sucks assballs.
sh.reddit.comseems to still workWhat is sh.reddit.com
It was meant for testing one of their UI redesigns.
Not sure what VPN you’re using, but I found that PIA is blocked, but Proton isn’t, as of last week anyway, something could have changed.
#littlepissbabydesign
What do you type to eliminate reddit from search results?
if your engine supports Boolean Search, you could try “-reddit.com” after your search without the quotes.
-site:reddit.com is more explicit. Then you don’t block pages that merely mention reddit.com.
Works on Google. Maybe others.
odd. old.reddit.com is still working for me.
If you are logged in and on a VPN it works, if you’re not logged in and on a VPN it doesn’t anymore. This started happening to me about 5 days ago as well.
Not logged in and using Mullvad, and it works fine.
Not logged in, still works for me.
Consider changing your ip/location.
Ditto, not logged in, incognito (so no cookies/history, I know it’s not actually incognito), VPN exiting in Canada. old.reddit working fine.
Could also be a staggered rollout thing? VPN/endpoint dependent while they gather data on endpoints?
I’m not your pardner, buddy.
I’m not your buddy, friend
I’m not your friend, pal
I’m not your friend, pal
I’m not your pal, hombre
I’m not your hombre bro.
I’m not your bro, bruh.
I’m not your bruh, m8.
I’m not your m8, k8
I’m not your friend, pal.
Wow, thats actually a pretty big deal. Maybe we can get a few more posters here for reddits bad calls.
They’ve been intermittently blocking anyone with a VPN or any sort of other obfuscated connection. With the IPO finally out, the pressure is now on to milk every possible cent from the site, makes sense they’d go to 100% block now.
A user who browses without providing a complete, intimate user data profile for advertising is literally worth less to reddit than a user that doesn’t use the site.
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