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.
Private Internet Access is a solid VPN but is definitely flagged by any sites pulling this bullshit.
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.
PIA was bought out and is currently owned by an ad company.
Well shit. Gotta find a new one then.
I’ve been very happy with the whole Proton suite for almost 4 years now (though, I’ve never used the free plan)
PIA was bought out and is currently owned by an ad company.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Try old.reddit.com
That’s being blocked, too
That’s new, interesting
No, that’s old…
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.
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
When that goes, it’s over.
It’s already over m8. Let it go, Mr. Frodo.
Oh I’ve let it go. I still visit for porn.
Why? Theres literally an instance called lemmynsfw with tons of nudes and vids
Let. It. Go.
They block VPNs there too, even with a longer text.
Can’t login into old without having to go through cloudflare verification can.
Its done.
They block IPv6 tunnels too.
2023 turned web2 platforms into the Thing, and turned us into MacReady.
(Instagram: I was always the Thing! blargghhhgalzklgrkffz)
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.
I managed to log in with a vpn by using a third party login thing. “Sign in with Apple”. I don’t mind as much since it lets me use a proxy email.
Just make a throwaway account. The VPNs work fine when you’re signed in.
I know that’s not an acceptable answer for some but if they want to associate your activity with a throwaway account, let them, because they still have no way of knowing which person on the VPN is using that throwaway account.
No I deleted my Reddit account for a reason. I just go sneak sometimes to see what’s happening in my old community. Sometimes steal some posts and put them up here.
It disables sign in on my VPN with “unknown error.”
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.
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.
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…
Reddit is a high proportion of tech issue search results. “just use lemmy” doesn’t solve anything
Or other Redlib instances: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib-instances/blob/main/instances.md
No shit. We don’t need a weekly post.