Reddit started blocking VPN users on old.reddit.com

Reddit taught me to never trust a silicon valley, centralized, proprietary service on the internet with my data and/or content

whoa there pardner

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

Started? Been having that issue for months now. It only works on VPN if you're logged on.

Certain VPN servers can go through it they haven't implemented a block for it yet. AirVPN launched some new servers that worked for a bit, but Reddit blocked them a few weeks later.

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.

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

what an absolute garbage site it has turned into

Evil bastards will continue to wring every bit of tracked engagement they can, now that they're publicly traded. It's the only way to satisfy capitalist markets. Woooooo!

I'm glad I'm over here now.

Workaround if you are using uBlock Origin:

reddit.com##+js(set-cookie-reload, reddit_session, 0)
old.reddit.com##+js(set-cookie-reload, reddit_session, 0)

Add this to your filters.

They really want to track you

Jokes on them I block them on the DNS level.

I'm making a list, and I'll be checking it thrice lol.

Gonna ban all major sites and IPs. The Internet used to be about the small guy not the downtown.

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

The Redlib frontend still works. In my opinion it also provides a much nicer UI than the official Reddit website or even old.reddit.com. This is the list of public instances: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib-instances/blob/main/instances.md

Ok, you do that, but people who don't want to get cut off from 400 million people, how do we fuck up and breakthrough reddit's anti anonimity defenses ?

Killing reddit is on the table, but is there a more practical approach ?

That's bad, Reddit is blocked in my country. VPN is my key to the open world

RedLib, the continuation of LibReddit,
still works:
https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

I use it in combination with this GreaseMonkey script,
to redirect me to a random RedLib instance:
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469587-reddit-to-libreddit-redirect

Due to instances often going down and/or stop working.

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.

I looked up to see is my VPN is connected. It is. Good. Moving right along.

So I can NOT access old.reddit anymore on any of my linux machines with firefox and nordvpn extension, but I can access both old and new on windows with firefox and extension, and old on android with FF mobile and nordvpn app. Haven't tried new on android for obvious reasons.

Permanently Deleted

Oh, they did this with my actual ip lol don't know what I did

Fck reddit. We have lemmy. Let reddit rot.

I’m not your pardner, buddy.

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.

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

Confirmed by me

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?

That's what i experienced today with tor, it didn't even surprise me

How can they distinguish VPN users? I'm guessing it's a IP blocklist.

USE EU VPNs let them block the EU.

Fuck Reddit.

It’s been doing that for sometime now

I probably check old Reddit once a month, and usually just to look up I use Redreader on Android. I barely use Reddit at all now, and it feels funny, considering I once used to nighttime scroll my multireddit feed for hours.

An obvious chipping away at old reddit. They are trying to get rid of it altogether.

I consider their new format to be unusable.

old.reddit.com (and the .onion one) works in the Tor Browser, for me at least. I am not logged in

It is weird how many times I have to tell myself out loud "reddit is bad for me; close that tab!"

I am grateful that facebook/instagram requires a login. It means I never have to look at it even when I am feeling weak.

Same with The Atlantic, The NY Times, and the Jeff Bezos Suck Billionaire Cock Machine The Washington Post.

Thank you for keeping me from reading that trash, rich people.

Still works for Mullvad.

I only go there on accident.

The hurensohn getting his own damn way with just about everything. 🤬🤬🤬

I used TOR with I2P as it's layer, still, the program automatically redirect me to old.reddit.com.

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

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.

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

Edit: I use Proton (not logged in)

They've been doing this for ages. Some think it's just Old Reddit either.

I started seeing this a few days ago. It will allow you to browse with a vpn after logging in, and you can log in with the vpn in use.

Funnily once logged in you can log back out and continue browsing old.reddit like normal. I wonder if it's using some kind if authentication cookie to validate browsing

How dare you not let us track your location!

Only the investors matter now

Still works with ExpressVPN

Also works with Apple Private Relay

Edit: tested while logged out

Huh, interesting. I was wondering why twitter wasn't loading in my browser and it's because I was behind the duckduckgo VPN. I guess this is a thing websites will be doing now.

Oopsie

Can confirm. At this point, I just want a solution to completely remove Reddit links from search results.

Unfortunately this means I can now longer find answers to some error messages.

One more step away from log in to view this post. Back away from the trash fire. I see that I’m unable to login through two different VPNs.

All 1000 scanned ports on 146.70.168.154 are in ignored states. Not shown: 1000 filtered tcp ports (no-response)

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 26.88 seconds

Changed my upvote to a downvote. Please dont post screenshots of text. Just copy & paste the text here (instead).