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 @[email protected] don’t solve this issue.
I can’t believe more people haven’t left because of that.
I can say got suspended for using VPN, they say there’s an issue with the security of my account & promoted me to change the password. I never posted any comments only did upvote & downvote. Still got suspended for no reason!!
interesting, through the ban wave last tuesday only one of my accts wasnt pera ban, but it required me to change my password out of the blue, and it also receive the "perma ban message, but i couldnt find it anywhere( the appeals page doesnt let you contact them if you have no ban in place). im almost certain my account was flagged, additionally i checked today searching my acc incognito, it has a restricted box next to the name? havnt tried to comment with it yet.
You are shadowbanned site wide my friend. Just like me. No appeal will help you.
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havnt tested it by commenting yet. im not surprised if it is.
they are probably banning datacenter ip addresses to prevent AI companies from skraping. They want to sell the data for money 🤷♂️
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.
I use it with NordVPN all the time
The ones they know about.
It’s been that way for years.
That’s just not true, we go through a VPN at work and it works
It blocks popular VPN services. I doubt your work is a recognised VPN IP.
Also if you block all cookies the website breaks too lol
Here I am thinking I was a controversial asshole… nope, just a security nerd. I wonder if NordVPN’s new nordwhisper protocol will circumvent some of this?
I’ve also wondered if they’ve collected hardware hashes of the actual computer beyond IPv4. Never heard of CaptchaV3… I’ll have to read up on that.
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Been getting that for months.
Work uses a VPN. So if there’s a useful answer to a work question on some technical reddit, I don’t see it. Way to remain a relevant resource for anything but fandom BS.
Yeah it’s annoying AF to get around it, I sadly gave up and logged in.
i use it with proton vpn every day because my country’s incompetent slop government blocks access to it otherwise
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Do they have an android app?
no, but the mobile version of the website is just fine. you can also install LibRedirect (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/libredirect/) on Firefox to automatically redirect reddit links to it.
Which VPN are you using? In most cases it works for me depending on the country I choose.
Got to keep rotating them servers, it is an endless wack a mole game.
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it does, reddit blocks vpn where reddit is not really censored by the government. i think thats why they may allow VPN some countries that may restrict its usage.
Admittedly, I only use exit nodes in my state, but they do block Mullvad and Air.
they do block Mullvad
Not well enough it seems. Still reachable for me on some exits, but not all.
Yeah for sure. I’m not motivated enough to see the content over there though so if my current exit node is blocked I don’t even bother with trying to view whatever it was.
Yes they automatically ban vpn users most of the time, I think that’s why the OF accounts use rotating proxies, mobile proxy servers, they couple it with anti detection browsers, they have to change ips, or reddit catches on. This is from another site, even they are getting caught still, due to redditsn recent ban wave, I also noticed many subs had increased their filtering of “spammy comments”
Happens on corporate VPN too. Morons are blocking themselves. Imagine a corpo user looking for Excel formulas for work and reddit it’s like, ‘fuck outta here’.
I was using a VPN to access F*eddit, after 1 or 2 days i got a permanent red bar on top saying that my account was banned, needless to say reddit is no more my preferred media provider.
This also happened to me, i wondered why i got banned
I created a Reddit account a few days ago (for testing purposes) using MullvadVPN and after many captachas I managed to finalize but the account is shadowbanned. I can access the subreddits but my comments don’t show up for anyone
By the way, fuck Reddit!!!
they automatically shadowban vpn users, i was on another forum that they already had been banning vpn accounts(instant ban) for a while they all switched to using proxies, anti-detection browsers, ISP changes to evade the bans. anyone who have been using it recently will get shadowbanned instantly or eventually, hence the use of different proxies instead. even that is not fool-proof , and people are actually paying to do this(for thier OF accounts)
a way to check if your acc is shadowbanned is logout and incognito and try to look up your user profile(or any other redditors profile, if says missing or suspended, you know), it also can tell if a user has deactivated thier acc.
additionally reddit is currently going through a large purge of accounts as of recently, someone mentioned in another forum that there have been an unusual amount of account bans recently(like 3 in the last 3 months). i lost a couple of accs as a normal users, one of my acc got temp suspeneded, suddenly all my other accounts were immediately permabanned.(apparently some mods are extremely anal about reporting other people). theres other instances of other peoples acc were banned for no reason at all, appealing just gets a rejection notice(reddit admins arnt even bothering to look at it, they know)
I think they’re either using google data to link email accounts to phone numbers or using an NLP model to identify users by how they write in the vans.
I hot banned on accounts tied to email addresses I haven’t used in years, logged in from a vpn. Like. 5 email addresses. Many accounts on the email addresses hadn’t been used in years. The only things linking them were a phone number I used for 2fa on google.
It’s the Reddit app. It flags all accounts used to log in on them device.
I now only use the (broken) mobile page
Don’t use it. Never have.
Yes apparent the app gives them even more info, like you device id , components, Mac address, and it has a anti-vpn measure built in, unlike the browsers
I got like five accounts banned before I figured it out
they do the same with you IP too, and additionally if they catch any of your accts, mimicking your other accts, they can put 2 and 2 together.
also using things like vcaptcha v3, which tracks your movements on the site. thats one aspect, if your using the app, they will be able to look at your device signature too. if you have more than 1 acc on an email, it can compromise them all(if one gets banned, perma ban all of them can take a hit). additionally they are purging many accounts right now too.
they can still ban all acc if your using the same VPN, . they are extra aggressive this time around.
