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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 @overdevs@lemmy.world don’t solve this issue.

I can’t believe more people haven’t left because of that.

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[–] sumguyonline@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Grabs calendar Well hey that's when my life fell apart after they killed my puppy. -probably unrelated.

[–] PearOfDees69@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah it's annoying AF to get around it, I sadly gave up and logged in.

[–] tym@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

Reveddit seems to be a useful workaround but of course you'll see all the removed content as well

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 6 days ago

YouTube too

[–] bokherif@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Also if you block all cookies the website breaks too lol

[–] Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

It's not a straight up block, sometimes reddit disallows you from seeing threads when you're on a vpn, but it's not always consistent.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah I've had to switch servers a lot to view helpful reddit posts I find online

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 116 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They are slowly killing public access.

They don't want you using reddit unless you are using with an account tied to real ID.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 28 points 1 week ago (10 children)

you know the drill folks: deny the parasite engagement, seed fedi with discussion.

corpo parasite took the shit poster for granted for too long.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Or... Create accounts on reddit but never use them. That's gotta bring down number of active users in the long term.

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[–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 58 points 1 week ago (8 children)

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!!!

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[–] Winterfrost@lemm.ee 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

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!!

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[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Which VPN are you using? In most cases it works for me depending on the country I choose.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Got to keep rotating them servers, it is an endless wack a mole game.

[–] midnight@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Admittedly, I only use exit nodes in my state, but they do block Mullvad and Air.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yes they automatically ban vpn users most of the time, I think that's why the OF accounts use rotating proxies, mobile proxy servers, they couple it with anti detection browsers, they have to change ips, or reddit catches on. This is from another site, even they are getting caught still, due to redditsn recent ban wave, I also noticed many subs had increased their filtering of "spammy comments"

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[–] BuffaloSuarez@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Have you tried just using Lemmy instead?

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

What do you think I’m doing? My account doesn’t have thousands of lemmy submissions by accident!

[–] FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

Yup, donated $100 too because it's a great service.

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I just host a RedLib instance and browse every so often. Starting to use Lemmy more for actual interactions.

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