This is what I get when going to Reddit while connected to Proton VPN, connected to a server in the same country I live in.
I haven’t had issues and I use protonvpn on old.reddit.com
Just make a throwaway account. The VPNs work fine when you’re signed in.
I know that’s not an acceptable answer for some but if they want to associate your activity with a throwaway account, let them, because they still have no way of knowing which person on the VPN is using that throwaway account.
No I deleted my Reddit account for a reason. I just go sneak sometimes to see what’s happening in my old community. Sometimes steal some posts and put them up here.
It disables sign in on my VPN with “unknown error.”
Use Redlib with LibRedirect to automatically redirect all Reddit links. Libreddit and Teddit are broken.
I think there’s an Ublock rule to get around this.
That would surprise me. Companies like Akamai maintain very up-to-date lists of Tor exit nodes, commercial VPN exit nodes, etc. My employer uses Akamai and blocks all traffic from Tor given the huge volume of malicious traffic coming from it. It would be trivial for us to block VPN traffic as well if we wanted to. Those blocks occur on Akamai’s systems before it ever makes it to ours. No browser-based tool is going to get around an IP based block like that.
No idea if Reddit is doing something similar here, but my guess is they are.
Works for me. Maybe try a different server?
You have to be logged in for it to work.
Yea I ran into the same thing about 2 months ago, haven’t even gone back to check it. https://lemmy.world/post/14769888
I’d just be grateful you found Lemmy. I suspect Reddit is mostly bot spam at this point hidden as real users. Sucks that so many old posts are now being gatekept, a pinnacle of the real enshittification that’s happening right now.
Oh for sure.
It’s just sometimes it feels a bit lonely in my main communities. I’m a francophone Quebecois and there isn’t a lot of us on Lemmy. Most of them didn’t seem to care about the whole API thing and don’t seem to care about the bots and the AI either.
The Quebecois are creatures of habit and one they’ve settled down on something it’s hard to make them change.
Ben non, je pense qu’on est au moins 3…
Reddit is a high proportion of tech issue search results. “just use lemmy” doesn’t solve anything
This is an issue with all popular VPNs on various websites. VPNs use shared IP addresses so just a few bad actors using that VPN can get it blocked for everyone. I can’t even load Google sometimes without multiple human verification checks.
It seems to me like they blocked all VPN users.
I have the same experience on Mozilla VPN and I didn’t use reddit for a year.
Edit: It let’s me through when I log into my old account.
This is reddit blocking all VPNs it can, and only on new reddit.
It has nothing to do with bad actors and everything to do with maximizing user data gathering.
only on new reddit
It’s also blocked for old.reddit.com.
Let’s not pretend it’s all about “bad actors”. They don’t want masked traffic at all, the “bad actors” gives them an excuse.
And we know this because if the IP was the issue, they wouldn’t let you use the site at all, but they will work fine after signing in. Any of these VPNs work as long as you’re logged into reddit, even with a throwaway account.
If you just want to browse Reddit and have a user script extension installed, you can use LibReddit Redirector to browse via a third-party frontend without turning off your VPN.
My experience with LibReddit:
“Failed to parse page JSON data: EOF while parsing a value at line 1 column 0 Reddit Status Head back home?”
LibReddit is broken, use Redlib instead
Proton has a bajillion servers. It shouldn’t take long to find one that isn’t blocked. Save it as a profile.
When that goes, it’s over.
They block VPNs there too, even with a longer text.
It’s already over m8. Let it go, Mr. Frodo.
Oh I’ve let it go. I still visit for porn.
Let. It. Go.
Why? Theres literally an instance called lemmynsfw with tons of nudes and vids
Can’t login into old without having to go through cloudflare verification can.
Its done.
Or other Redlib instances: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib-instances/blob/main/instances.md
The internet is becoming worst and worst to use everyday with a VPN. Using Private Browsing… on Firefox? That’s a triple signal for you to fuck off from any stock traded company’s website.
Worse and worse*
Wow, it’s the same for Mozilla VPN (Mulvulla) which doesn’t even pretent you’re from a different country.
The same with Mullvad
PS: Fuck Reddit!
Second comment, the only browser I got this message on my laptop is Mull, but Firefox w/o addons, Brave browser and Tor all allowed me to view reddit dot com with my VPN on. With Tor you can visit their onion site.
