Changing the URL to old.reddit.com gets around this, until they eventually give up on the old design.
this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2025
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Cheers thanks for that.
using old.reddit.com
""" whoa there, pardner!
Your request has been blocked due to a network policy.
"""
Yeah they basically block all non-residential IPs now. Has been a thing for a while, about since they started selling their dataset for ML training.
I got that too following a link a friend sent. Seems they stepped up the blocking for some residential addresses now.
Or some other reason. I stopped rummaging through that site years ago.
Yep, was happening to me all day in Australia (residential internet).. I guess there is no need to ever visit reddit again
I'm just across the ditch. You have to wonder how much Reddit is now just an AI trainer.
I don't wonder. by the time I left there were more barriers to entry for humans than for bots. more newly created or newly active accounts speaking word salad than not. and the moderator help subs were alive every day with somebody asking how to deal with it.
They'll have a nice snapshot of data up until about 2021 and then it'll just be garbage.
it might be reddit just fucking up, i got the same error while logged in
check again, works for me just as usual
I've seen that message a bunch of times, but only when I've had a VPN running.
Yes, all the time, be grateful that it's your first. Really annoying in the middle of research.
yes, i have. Reddit has to fall
I got that notification for the first time today as well, guessing it's just a tactic to get people to create accounts they can data mine to sell to AI companies.
Thanks guys for all the replys, much appreciated. Oh well, glad I'm on Lemmy. Seems to be a world wide coordinated shift going on at the moment.
Maybe all those people who I took the piss out of in the past for lining their homes with tin foil weren't so wacko after all, just ahead of their time :)