You cannot access reddit without either an account, or turning off your VPN. Effectively meaning that it’s difficult to access reddit privately, as they can either track you with IP or with account.
Even alternative frontends like RDX for reddit by @[email protected] don’t solve this issue.
I can’t believe more people haven’t left because of that.
They are slowly killing public access.
They don’t want you using reddit unless you are using with an account tied to real ID.
They want to pump up the number of new accounts and/or monthly active accounts by any means necessary now that the stock price depends on it.
you know the drill folks: deny the parasite engagement, seed fedi with discussion.
corpo parasite took the shit poster for granted for too long.
I gotta admit I just discovered Reddit few weeks ago that I spend a bit more time there. Before it was only from Google results when needed.
I don’t know how it was before, but it feels pretty decent now. I don’t have a comparison.
Will be hard to leave Reddit now haha 🙄
Think about this:
Literally all the value of Reddit comes from the users, and most of the moderation comes from volunteers.
That is, everything that made Reddit useful was provided for free.
Now those jackanapes think they’re entitled to create money based on the free labor of millions of people. And what makes that more infuriating is they had the gall to call those volunteers “landed gentry”.
it was way better before, especially they dint force the New UI, you can still use the OLD.reddit feature, which makes it easier to navigate the site. the infinite scroll feature that most social media has now, is not good at all, its also gets very buggy and laggy(if your using it on mobile browser). Also there have been significant ban/purges in the last few months and many accounts were banned. alot of innocent users have been caught in the crossfire, additionally, in my opinion its pretty hostile to new users too, because subreddits have UPPed thier anti-ban evasion ,spam filter, even to the point it harms new users.
remember this comment when you figure out why reddit is fucked haha
prolly under 3 months if you are going to engage on there.
if they can even post/comment as a new user
gotta look good for their quartely call, and potentially be sold off eventually. hence the indiscriminate and discriminate banning of accounts.
I created a Reddit account a few days ago (for testing purposes) using MullvadVPN and after many captachas I managed to finalize but the account is shadowbanned. I can access the subreddits but my comments don’t show up for anyone
By the way, fuck Reddit!!!
they automatically shadowban vpn users, i was on another forum that they already had been banning vpn accounts(instant ban) for a while they all switched to using proxies, anti-detection browsers, ISP changes to evade the bans. anyone who have been using it recently will get shadowbanned instantly or eventually, hence the use of different proxies instead. even that is not fool-proof , and people are actually paying to do this(for thier OF accounts)
a way to check if your acc is shadowbanned is logout and incognito and try to look up your user profile(or any other redditors profile, if says missing or suspended, you know), it also can tell if a user has deactivated thier acc.
additionally reddit is currently going through a large purge of accounts as of recently, someone mentioned in another forum that there have been an unusual amount of account bans recently(like 3 in the last 3 months). i lost a couple of accs as a normal users, one of my acc got temp suspeneded, suddenly all my other accounts were immediately permabanned.(apparently some mods are extremely anal about reporting other people). theres other instances of other peoples acc were banned for no reason at all, appealing just gets a rejection notice(reddit admins arnt even bothering to look at it, they know)
I think they’re either using google data to link email accounts to phone numbers or using an NLP model to identify users by how they write in the vans.
I hot banned on accounts tied to email addresses I haven’t used in years, logged in from a vpn. Like. 5 email addresses. Many accounts on the email addresses hadn’t been used in years. The only things linking them were a phone number I used for 2fa on google.
also using things like vcaptcha v3, which tracks your movements on the site. thats one aspect, if your using the app, they will be able to look at your device signature too. if you have more than 1 acc on an email, it can compromise them all(if one gets banned, perma ban all of them can take a hit). additionally they are purging many accounts right now too.
they can still ban all acc if your using the same VPN, . they are extra aggressive this time around.
You know you can use an extension that will redirect you to old.reddit.com which doesn’t need an account? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/
No, that doesn’t always work. They still block that sometimes.
Doesn’t work, they serve you a blank webpage
Been getting that for months.
Work uses a VPN. So if there’s a useful answer to a work question on some technical reddit, I don’t see it. Way to remain a relevant resource for anything but fandom BS.
It’s been that way for years.
It’s changed a few times. It’s been blocked without login, then later, to a bunch of random interrupts and resets.
People have strange ideas about netsec, like lemmy.
Do they have an android app?
no, but the mobile version of the website is just fine. you can also install LibRedirect (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/libredirect/) on Firefox to automatically redirect reddit links to it.
I can say got suspended for using VPN, they say there’s an issue with the security of my account & promoted me to change the password. I never posted any comments only did upvote & downvote. Still got suspended for no reason!!
I use it with NordVPN all the time
Which VPN are you using? In most cases it works for me depending on the country I choose.
Admittedly, I only use exit nodes in my state, but they do block Mullvad and Air.
Got to keep rotating them servers, it is an endless wack a mole game.
i heard in another site, you have to use anti-detect browsers, plus proxies that arnt static. its very hard to get around reddit anti-spam,botting filters, they have increased thier sensitivity of those methods too.
I just host a RedLib instance and browse every so often. Starting to use Lemmy more for actual interactions.
It seems to depend. If I have my location set to within the US, I can usually access the top level post without a problem, but I can’t see any comments. If I set location to Europe—usually Switzerland, since they have good privacy laws–then I can’t access the site at all. If I set it to old.reddit.com with location set to the US, I can see comments, except for anything that’s been labelled as NSFW; those require me to log in.
they have a tor hidden service, still seems to work.
YouTube too
Here I am thinking I was a controversial asshole… nope, just a security nerd. I wonder if NordVPN’s new nordwhisper protocol will circumvent some of this?
I’ve also wondered if they’ve collected hardware hashes of the actual computer beyond IPv4. Never heard of CaptchaV3… I’ll have to read up on that.
and here I am using expressvpn without any issues.
