would be a shame if you filed a frivolous ticket to let them know what you think about their platform
I don't get it, are they blocking access without login in general? Or is this because the traffic was in fact somehow suspicious? Or is this to prevent data harvesting?
I got this while on a VPN, I'd assume reddit is trying to accomplish:
- Blocking malicious attempts from anonymous Ips
- Blocking Data Scraping
- Forcing users to divulge their ip information for tracking purposes.
Blocking Data Scraping
They need to keep all that data for themselves so that they can sell it.
Probably blocking users on VPN who are not logged in, or some IP blocking like that.
It is definitely this. "You're not profilable, how do you expect us to sell you to advertisers?"
I was running a web browser on an azure VM and clicked a reddit link in my search results only to see this page.
I'm not logging into my personal reddit account at work (or creating a work reddit account) so I just found my information elsewhere.
They block my hurricane electric ipv6 tunnel too.
Do what, now?
The audacity paired with the mascot wearing a Fedora sums up Reddit pretty good.
look…
I feel like everyone keeps forgetting that Reddit not only needs our metadata, but so much so in fact, that they need us to be able to bypass their own censorship in order to reach their servers, and to do so in the most anonymous way possible and without requiring their scripts to run in our browsers:
https://old.reddittorjg6rue252oqsxryoxengawnmo46qy4kyii5wtqnwfj4ooad.onion
This is nothing new, hence why they literally call it old. I can remember all the way back in nineteen ninety eight, when The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell in a Cell, and plummeted sisxteen feet through an announcer's table.
Always has been.
YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME. I WASN'T READY.
Oh i got something for them to look into i do
Muh user base
fedora
M'userbase
Privacy Guides has a note on their page about Private frontends:
The Old Reddit website doesn't require as much JavaScript as the new Reddit website does, but it has recently blocked access to IP addresses reserved for public VPNs. You can use Old Reddit in conjunction with the Tor Onion that was launched in October 2022 at https://old.reddittorjg6rue252oqsxryoxengawnmo46qy4kyii5wtqnwfj4ooad.onion.
Alternatively you can just use Redlib as described in this post: https://lemmy.world/post/14141628
I understand that you should be able to access websites however you want. But what reasons would someone have to use a VPN to access reddit?
I use a VPN all the time primarily because I don't like the idea of being a data point for profit.
An ad tracking company can determine your approximate location based on your IP address. They may also be able to identify your Internet Service Provider (ISP), device type, operating system, and browser information. Some companies might even use more advanced techniques like geolocation or machine learning algorithms to infer additional details about you, such as language preferences or demographic information. However, it's important to note that not all tracking methods are accurate, and privacy concerns exist due to potential misuse of this data.
Because ISP's, DNS servers, and 99.99% of websites are harvesting your data for profit?
Why not use a VPN at all times? I trust the top VPN companies with my data more than any ISP on the planet...
Why does there need to be a reason?
The question you should be asking is why does reddit care what I'm doing on my own computer?
They don't. They do care to whom they serve data using the bandwidth and servers they pay for.
My mobile provider manipulates and likely sells my network traffic. Also it hides tethering. My home ISP was confirmed to snoop and sell.
