conorab ,

My guess is it’s to reduce scraping. A single bad actor can swap between IPs from VPN providers easily. They also seem to ban blocks of IPs since both my colocated server IP (had it since 2019) and PureVPN dedicated IP (recent) are blocked despite me being the only user. Forcing account creation adds an extra step and way they can block you.

sleepmode ,

I use the Switzerland server if it or another site does this.

resonate6279 ,

Depends on the server. I rarely am over there, but sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't

Facebones ,

Private Internet Access is a solid VPN but is definitely flagged by any sites pulling this bullshit.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Really? I use PIA all the time and haven’t had any issues with normal internet usage including reddit. Wirst I get is google making me check a captcha box once in a while.

resonate6279 ,

PIA was bought out and is currently owned by an ad company.

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Well shit. Gotta find a new one then.

resonate6279 ,

I've been very happy with the whole Proton suite for almost 4 years now (though, I've never used the free plan)

resonate6279 ,

PIA was bought out and is currently owned by an ad company.

Facebones ,

Any suggestions that haven't been? I don't stay in the loop, I think I heard that they had been but so had everyone else, basically.

resonate6279 ,

I've been using Proton for 4ish years now and like it. Email, VPN, drive, and calendar. I use something else instead of proton pass, but just for diversity.

Facebones ,

Yeah I already have web/mail hosting, and the rest self hosted. How is proton with getting flagged by sites and swimming in captchas or outright blocks? I kinda just assumed they all struggled with that these days.

resonate6279 ,

I don't struggle a lot with it. Occasionally I'll have an issues, but it's not bad at all. Sometimes I have to switch severs, but I'll usually find a working one in 1-2 tries.

The only outright block I run into is sometimes .gov sites won't let me in unless I'm set to a us server.

testuserpleaseupvote ,

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.

Muscar ,

Worse and worse*

Itdidnttrickledown ,

Not just them but old.reddit.com works fine usually.

pineapplelover ,

I haven't had issues and I use protonvpn on old.reddit.com

Yawweee877h444 ,

Same for mullvad. Most servers are blocked, although you can still find some that aren't.

Reddit sucks now anyway so fuck 'em.

Twig , (edited )
@Twig@sopuli.xyz avatar

I think there's an Ublock rule to get around this.

IphtashuFitz ,

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.

MacNCheezus ,
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Works for me. Maybe try a different server?

SupraMario ,

You have to be logged in for it to work.

vxx , (edited )

Wow, it's the same for Mozilla VPN (Mulvulla) which doesn't even pretent you're from a different country.

Andromxda ,
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Use Redlib with LibRedirect to automatically redirect all Reddit links. Libreddit and Teddit are broken.

DarkThoughts ,

VPNs in general and for quite a long time now.
You can use LibRedirect to use a different frontend (please note that a lot of the alternative instances for other sites are pretty much broken).

athairmor ,

Proton has a bajillion servers. It shouldn’t take long to find one that isn’t blocked. Save it as a profile.

IsThisAnAI ,

No shit. We don't need a weekly post.

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