At this point, I’m not even going to bother trying to go on there anymore.
Still works with ExpressVPN
Also works with Apple Private Relay
Edit: tested while logged out
Don’t use express VPN
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I looked up to see is my VPN is connected. It is. Good. Moving right along.
It’s easy to disable a VPN remotely though, especially on handheld devices.
All you need to is to point the user to a post or a website that is bloated with JS and contains high rez images and/or video.
The device then has to either begin paging memory like crazy - or more likely - begins to kill background processes that it thinks are not used by the foreground apps (e.g. your VPN).
For newer smartphones this is less of an issue, since their RAM can handle it. For > 5 year old smartphones though? They might struggle.
Who told you this?
Not sure why you’re getting downvotes. I’ve seen VPN apps get background killed on some devices.
And for that, Android has a VPN killswitch function since Nougat, which has never failed. You can turn it on for whatever VPN/firewall you use.
Hmm, I’ve had that fail on some cheap Chinese phones. They have other software that kills things in the background irrespective of the setting. I developed a VPN client and was never truly able to solve this problem on some low memory devices.
The VPN may get killed, but the killswitch in network stack prevents any connection outside, unless you have some really weird noname phone with poorly developed custom Android build. If you have any brand phone you hear, Google, Huawei, Samsung, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, Oneplus, Asus or any such big name, I do not think this issue will occur, atleast I have not heard or seen this on any decent budget specced device. Besides, I think having a device with less than 3-4 GB RAM is going to cause issues, because they are computers just in handheld form.
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If you run a VPN app, you can use AFWall to force all traffic through the VPN. So if the VPN app isn’t running for some reason, the apps set to only go through the VPN service will have no internet access.
You run your VPN on your router to fix this. Then every device on your network are forced through the tunnel, and this risk does not exist.
Android has a VPN killswitch function since version 7 Nougat, which never fails. If your firewall/VPN gets killed in memory, your internet connection ceases to work until it is turned on and connected again.
In theory, yes. In practice, I can definitely tell you that the kill-switch service gets killed too, despite whatever level of niceness it’s assigned.
I can definitely tell you that the kill-switch service gets killed too
Can you provide proof of your dangerous claims? Killswitch is in Android/AOSP as part of system networking stack.
I’m not going to dox myself but I can tell you that it’s a near daily occurrence for me on Lineage 18 (Android 11) on my phone with 2GB RAM.
Here is a related issue from 10 months ago, for an android TV device:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ShieldAndroidTV/comments/13st92f/vpn_app_disconnecting_in_background/
Nowhere does that person say they used this option. These options appear when you hold tap VPN/firewall app you set in VPN settings.
Also, did they whitelist it from whatever battery saver phone has? Or disabled PowerGenie stuff? And used that little “keep app in memory” thing like this?
I force killed my both firewalls and this happened. The same stays when phone restarts until both firewalls are up and running.
Now, tell me about that claim you made…
I’m happy it works flawless for you man, and I’m sure on official Lineage builds which are as close as possible to AOSP things work exactly as you say.
I have an unofficial Lineage 18 ROM patched to hell to work with my old phone. All I can do is tell you what I see, and what I see is that when my phone tries to play a 720p or higher video, with an impossibly high bit-rate for the phone, the phone starts to aggressively background-kill apps, and that includes my VPN.
Again, happy it works for you, and I agree that in principle the default route should point to nothing if the VPN dies. On my device, when the virtual network device of the VPN goes down, it drops to the default network and finds another gateway.
How can they distinguish VPN users? I’m guessing it’s a IP blocklist.
Exactly that, I wohld assume. I could still get on with a VPN IP from some 3rd world countries over Western countries but even those are now failing.
Lol it’s simple just watch for a shit ton of traffic from single ip addresses.
They appear to also have blocklists independent of “shit ton of traffic.” I have a VPN to my VPS (Oracle), which has a public IP (and I’m the only user). I also get whoa pardner’d when going through that VPN.
Perhaps I fall into the “we don’t want other people scraping our site unless they pay” category though. I would make sense to just block off all VPS/cloud IP blocks (e.g., AWS, Azure, Oracle, Google Cloud…).
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
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.
They started also blocking OLD.reddit.com this week. I made a comment a couple months ago alluding to old.reddit.com still working even though they were blocking tor and known VPNs on www.reddit.com. I’m sure about 10,000 other people figured it out at the same time as me, since it was such a simple bypass, and I’m surprised it took this long to fix.
There are still at least 2 other unpatched ways.
old.reddit.com is the only Reddit website I use. I have every reddit link automatically redirect to that website as well. I haven’t been able to access old.reddit.com for months on most servers of 3 different VPNs I’ve used.
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It’s definitely been a thing for more than just a week. I saw a post complaining about this on old Reddit months ago.
Can someone tell me how they would know if someone uses a VPN to access their site? I believe OpenVPN has a way to make traffic look like normal HTTPS traffic
It’s not about anti-censorship (making your VPN traffic look like regular traffic) it’s about the IP address at the end of the VPN connection. They have a list of known VPN provider IP ranges and block those. If you run a proxy server or VPN on a your own private VPS for example, then it won’t be detected.
Ah, that’s great to know. Thanks
I think its a move to keep banned people out, as old reddit was the loophole people used to make new accounts. can’t create an account via VPN on old reddit if you can’t access without being logged in
I only go there on accident.
Oh, they did this with my actual ip lol don’t know what I did
Oopsie
Fck reddit. We have lemmy. Let reddit rot.
Every day spez is DIGGing himself into a deeper hole…
He got his IPO money. He gives zero fucks what happens now.
Fuck Reddit.
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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.
Only eveil websites.
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.
Libreddit is discontinued and due to draconian API limits most instances rarely work
One could use one of the Lemmy instance dedicated at mirroring reddit (ex: https://lemmit.online/) as a workaround I suppose.
USE EU VPNs let them block the EU.
An obvious chipping away at old reddit. They are trying to get rid of it altogether.
I consider their new format to be unusable.
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.
