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TIL, Reddit blocks VPNs since last march.(adguard-vpn.com)

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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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Burninator05@lemmy.world
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I know I’m a data point of one but this seems sporadically applied. Sometimes it works on a vpn without logging in. Sometimes it doesnt.

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zorflieg@lemmy.world
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The ones they know about.

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dunes@feddit.org
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Some mullvad server aren’t blocked.

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Imhotep@lemmy.world
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Some Proton aren’t either.

What is becoming increasing difficult is Youtube. finding a patched client and the right VPN server is no easy task.

As VPN usage becomes more mainstream I believe “premium” offers will start to appear, offering servers with fewer people, regularly renewed IPs, things like that, for a higher price.

I sometimes have to switch servers to comment on Lemmy

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Ledericas@lemm.ee
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i think the ones that evade the bans, use proxy servers, which are harder to detect than a vpn.

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iowagneiss@midwest.social
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I was about to say, old reddit in browser works fine, but I use Mullvad, so I never noticed. I’m increasingly spending more time here too.

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pol9000@lemmy.world
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they are probably banning datacenter ip addresses to prevent AI companies from skraping. They want to sell the data for money 🤷‍♂️

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Ledericas@lemm.ee
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people are also use proxies, and some use datacenters for that and reddit found that out too. i think people using mobile proxies which are better.

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Rob1992@lemmy.world
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That’s just not true, we go through a VPN at work and it works

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FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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It blocks popular VPN services. I doubt your work is a recognised VPN IP.

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