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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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[–] ddawg@lemmynsfw.com 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

You know you can use an extension that will redirect you to old.reddit.com which doesn't need an account? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/

[–] MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

No, that doesn't always work. They still block that sometimes.

[–] saltedFish@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

Doesn't work, they serve you a blank webpage

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Which VPN are you using? In most cases it works for me depending on the country I choose.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Got to keep rotating them servers, it is an endless wack a mole game.

[–] midnight@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Admittedly, I only use exit nodes in my state, but they do block Mullvad and Air.

[–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

they do block Mullvad

Not well enough it seems. Still reachable for me on some exits, but not all.

[–] midnight@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

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.

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[–] BuffaloSuarez@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] steelrat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's changed a few times. It's been blocked without login, then later, to a bunch of random interrupts and resets.

People have strange ideas about netsec, like lemmy.

[–] 13roses@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I use it with NordVPN all the time

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If you want to use reddit, just find a redlib instance.

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[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i use it with proton vpn every day because my country's incompetent slop government blocks access to it otherwise

[–] Alpha71@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

It's been that way for years.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

It seems to depend. If I have my location set to within the US, I can usually access the top level post without a problem, but I can't see any comments. If I set location to Europe---usually Switzerland, since they have good privacy laws--then I can't access the site at all. If I set it to old.reddit.com with location set to the US, I can see comments, except for anything that's been labelled as NSFW; those require me to log in.

[–] mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Have you tried just using Lemmy instead?

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

What do you think I’m doing? My account doesn’t have thousands of lemmy submissions by accident!

[–] FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Yup, donated $100 too because it's a great service.

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I just host a RedLib instance and browse every so often. Starting to use Lemmy more for actual interactions.

[–] sumguyonline@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Grabs calendar Well hey that's when my life fell apart after they killed my puppy. -probably unrelated.

[–] tym@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

Reveddit seems to be a useful workaround but of course you'll see all the removed content as well

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

they have a tor hidden service, still seems to work.

[–] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

every account I made on there got shadowbanned. I made them before they had email as a requirement

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

(me using a VPN and this frontend https://rdx.overdevs.com/subreddit.html?r=popular)

What's this about a block now?

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago

YouTube too

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