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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Reddit is a high proportion of tech issue search results. “just use lemmy” doesn’t solve anything
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…
The same with Mullvad
PS: Fuck Reddit!
Proton has a bajillion servers. It shouldn’t take long to find one that isn’t blocked. Save it as a profile.
Wow, it’s the same for Mozilla VPN (Mulvulla) which doesn’t even pretent you’re from a different country.
Same for mullvad. Most servers are blocked, although you can still find some that aren’t.
Reddit sucks now anyway so fuck 'em.
2023 turned web2 platforms into the Thing, and turned us into MacReady.
(Instagram: I was always the Thing! blargghhhgalzklgrkffz)
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
Use Redlib with LibRedirect to automatically redirect all Reddit links. Libreddit and Teddit are broken.
Try old.reddit.com
That’s being blocked, too
That’s new, interesting
No, that’s old…
I have Proton VPN on my phone, I use RedReader app to browse reddit, works fine. I havent used my laptop in a long time, I’ll have to see what happens, has Proton VPN also. I have a paid plan with them.
Depends on the server. I rarely am over there, but sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t
I use the Switzerland server if it or another site does this.
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.
