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Reddit blocking web search (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 days ago by 10x10@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

I noticed today, having searched about TOR nodes possibly being run by government departments in a browser, I got this message, " Your request has been blocked by network security. Please try to login with your Reddit account. " I didn't login in the app!

Haven't come across that before. Has anyone else seen i?

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[-] breb@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

yes, i have. Reddit has to fall

[-] dgriffith@aussie.zone 22 points 2 days ago

Changing the URL to old.reddit.com gets around this, until they eventually give up on the old design.

[-] breb@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

using old.reddit.com

""" whoa there, pardner!

Your request has been blocked due to a network policy.

"""

[-] 10x10@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

Cheers thanks for that.

[-] liliumstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 days ago

Yeah they basically block all non-residential IPs now. Has been a thing for a while, about since they started selling their dataset for ML training.

[-] kowcop@aussie.zone 7 points 2 days ago

Yep, was happening to me all day in Australia (residential internet).. I guess there is no need to ever visit reddit again

[-] 10x10@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

I'm just across the ditch. You have to wonder how much Reddit is now just an AI trainer.

[-] sad_detective_man@leminal.space 6 points 2 days ago

I don't wonder. by the time I left there were more barriers to entry for humans than for bots. more newly created or newly active accounts speaking word salad than not. and the moderator help subs were alive every day with somebody asking how to deal with it.

[-] dgriffith@aussie.zone 3 points 2 days ago

They'll have a nice snapshot of data up until about 2021 and then it'll just be garbage.

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago

it might be reddit just fucking up, i got the same error while logged in

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 1 points 2 days ago

check again, works for me just as usual

[-] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

Yes, all the time, be grateful that it's your first. Really annoying in the middle of research.

[-] Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I've seen that message a bunch of times, but only when I've had a VPN running.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I got that notification for the first time today as well, guessing it's just a tactic to get people to create accounts they can data mine to sell to AI companies.

[-] 10x10@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Thanks guys for all the replys, much appreciated. Oh well, glad I'm on Lemmy. Seems to be a world wide coordinated shift going on at the moment.

Maybe all those people who I took the piss out of in the past for lining their homes with tin foil weren't so wacko after all, just ahead of their time :)

this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2025
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