r/bugs - Is anyone suddenly getting the "you're doing that too much" notification on subs that you've been active in for some time and don't have negative karma in?
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    • DessalinesOPA
      11·
      3 years ago

      I had to search to find this because it just started happening a few days ago. I’m surprised more people aren’t complaining about it.

      • AgreeableLandscape
        22·
        3 years ago

        I’m surprised more people aren’t complaining about it.

        Probably because they’re rate limited /s

    • Thyristor
      2·
      3 years ago

      I spent the last 5 years glued to my phone scrolling reddit all day and night. This year I have it blocked on my phone using a virtual vpn with a blacklist. I still can’t help checking it on the laptop, but it’s a start.

    • blank_sl8
      4·
      3 years ago

      It’s a similar situation to Tor. Theoretically, if there were a huge number of “volunteers”, it might work. In practice, just like with Tor, these “volunteers” probably have to deal with tons of illegal content flowing through their machine, so there likely aren’t many of them.

  • ksynwa
    5·
    3 years ago

    I got this when I was using rif is fun and a VPN. Problem is that I don’t use a VPN service. Rather it’s just a wireguard service running on my own VPS. So I don’t know how Reddit figured out how to rate limit that.

    They might just be blanket throttling IP addresses associated with VP servers. But that is kinda insane.

    • pinknoise
      6·
      3 years ago

      But that is kinda insane.

      Yes but blocking or flagging (“risk assessment”) IP-ranges of bigger hosting providers is sadly pretty common.

      • ksynwa
        1·
        3 years ago

        My VPS’ IP address seems very acceptable to google and cloudflare. I don’t know what problem reddit would have with it.

        Regardless I do first need to verify whether it was a temporary glitch or I an actually being rate limited.

  • blank_sl8
    32·
    3 years ago

    Misleading title. They can’t rate limit VPNs they don’t know about.

    • Thann
      6·
      3 years ago

      While this is technically true, there is a common and obvious implication that they meant “all known”

  • DBGamer
    45·
    3 years ago

    This isn’t news, any major platforms and even commercialized businesses will block/limits VPNs. They just not worth the risks associated with them. And as businesses there are not worth the “risks” to “capture leads from” which I agrees in a business sense.

    After all if you gotta deal with say 1,000 spammers why let that 1 “legit guy” be allowed? If the usual loads is non VPNed spammers 100 per legit non VPN user 1 for instance?

    • DessalinesOPA
      72·
      3 years ago

      They just started it a few days ago, for all VPN users. And they’re a multimillion dollar company, they can add some captchas to keep out bots.

      • DBGamer
        17·
        3 years ago

        Whens it comes to VPNs, there is just TOO MUCH risks involved with VPN users to allow openly for larger applications and businesses. Compared to “ordinary users” due to the privacy nature of VPNs.

        As I said before, if it would take 10x the amount of resources to let a legitimate user “in” compared to a “normal” user then why shall a business expel 10x the resources to let that happen for the FEW legitimate VPN users in comparison?

      • DBGamer
        2·
        3 years ago

        You still need to considers the costs of accepting said users though, even if you don’t likes it being done in such manners.

        Just think of anti-fraud measures which denying VPNs are apart of. If you are a small firm and you need to protect your business aren’t you inclined to do the same exact measures and tell your FraudLabsPro to ignore/caution against VPN orders?

          • DBGamer
            21·
            3 years ago

            Precisely I don’t think (as of now anyways) there a mean to “filters” VPN users effectively or otherwise general spam and such than to “cut the entire line off”.

            Take the Wasp and Hornet spray that we had to apply on our porch. It is depressing that a bee had to die? Absolutely but we had to spray or else we would be “spammed” by wasps and hornets that could damage our rental.

            Sometimes you have to take the “nuclear option” until more targeted solutions can be developed.

              • DBGamer
                21·
                3 years ago

                But that is WHY they are filtering VPNs to be honest. Because as I been saying it just not worth it to keep VPN users online when the BULK of the spammers are using the same.

                Even when you go out and buy something you probably gonna be asked to turn off your VPN or your order won’t be processed/requires additional steps. I know majority of hosting providers do at least.