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While we can be pretty confident that Reddit has its own motivations (i.e. self-interest) for fighting these lawsuits, this is still a good news story for pirates.

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[-] Hubi@feddit.de 21 points 9 months ago

Huh, I exclusively browse Lemmy through a VPN and I've never seen that one.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 9 months ago

He's probably talking about reddit They no longer allow vpn's or any user obfuscators to browse the site

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago

No they don't. I use the site with a VPN often and it generally works

[-] Salix@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

Are you logged in? I can't access Reddit with a VPN if I'm not logged in

[-] denhil@feddit.de 4 points 9 months ago

I can access old.reddit.com with VPN. The new shitty layout will block you but there are browser extensions to automatically redirect. I'm never logged in since I deleted my accounts a few months ago.

[-] Salix@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks! Confirmed that it works with old reddit, just doesn't work at all for me using regular new layout, which sucks anyway.

[-] resketreke@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

replace 'www' with 'old' in the address and it's fixed.

[-] Salix@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks! Confirmed that it works with old reddit, just doesn't work at all for me using regular new layout, which sucks anyway.

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

I've been using a VPN with an account recently. Works fine.

[-] _number8_@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

instagram definitely does this, reddit seems fine for me so far

[-] Cinner@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Reddit blocks access to all major VPN services (on desktop for sure) when they click a link from a search engine (maybe even navigating directly to it but I don't do that). This has been happening for about a month now. There's a specific page it shows that basically says "come back without a VPN."

I don't think it does it if you're logged in and have cookies enabled.

Caveat: there is a simple way to bypass it, I'll let you old.heads figure that one out.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago

The block is intermittent on Reddit, but it does occur.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

No lmao, I tried to upvote his comment and Thunder spat out that error. A few subs have started doing that (or it's instance-wide but only for certain VPN servers) in the last week or so.

[-] parachaye@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

That would probably be because your instance is different. Lemmy.world has recently blocked VPN traffic apparently because of bad actors uploading CSAM behind VPN. I also had issues with Lemmy with my VPN this week and either need to split tunnel or need to browse Lemmy as view-only.

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