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Reddit started blocking VPN users on old.reddit.com(lemm.ee)

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At this point, I’m not even going to bother trying to go on there anymore.

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Dessalines@lemmy.mlD
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Depends on which node I guess. I’m on mullvad and its not working.

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lutillian@sh.itjust.works
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One of the biggest downsides of a VPN; you share an exit node with lots of other people, only takes one bad actor to get your exit node ip banned

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drathvedro@lemm.ee
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Even if you don’t share the nodes, they know whether an ip belongs to a datacenter or not and so ban them preemptively. My IPs are all just mine and are clean as a whistle, but most of them are banned on lots of services anyway.

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lemmyingly@lemm.ee
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They don’t block datacenters, they specifically block publicly available VPNs. It’s not just Reddit that does this.

I have a few VPSs. I can connect to them with Wireguard and browse Reddit and the other VPN blocking services without an issue.

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