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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by ISOmorph@feddit.de to c/reddit@lemmy.world

Started to get this message when accessing Reddit. I use LibreWolf as a browser, which does indeed provide a more generic user agent to combat fingerprinting, but nothing out of the ordinary either (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/119.0). Anyone else experiencing this?

Edit: seems to have resolved itself. Thanks for confirming I wasn't doing anything wrong. Let's hope this isn't some new algorithm to test if for insufficient fingerprinting so Reddit can kick ad-resistant users.

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[-] GOD@lemmings.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm getting that message too, I've tried on Firefox, chrome, with and without VPN. I think it's something wrong with the site?

Edit: seems to work again now

[-] Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I get this error in the Firefox Developer Edition, can't acces it from mobile Chrome either...

Edit: Seems to work again

[-] MangoPenguin 7 points 10 months ago

I bet it's a glitch, all of my browsers are blocked on home Internet and on cell data.

[-] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

Reddit does a lot to try to track alts, and it still fails. It's probably impossible to have anything that sophisticated in the fediverse.

[-] kgbbot@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

All of my alts or any new account are instanta banned because I pissed off the AITA mods by creating an alt AITA_mods_are_all_incels.

[-] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

They don't even get the most obvious alts. I used to mod defaults back in the early 2010s on reddit and there were some notorious spammers and trolls, here's a few notable examples.

One guy in particular chalked up at least 100 alts, there was a whole private subreddit create just to keep track of this person. They talked in a very idiosyncratic way and had a few harassment targets, they'd often go to trans subreddits and find someone to send horrible messages to. Typically when they found a target, they'd create a username for them, like if they found a person who picked the trans name "Jennifer" for instance they'd make a user account "NeverJennifer" then start to send suicide messages, then they'd create alts as they got blocked/suspended etc.

There's a spammer on reddit called Oliver Gaspirtz/Oliver Markus Malloy/Introvert Comics who used to run a bunch of subs between 30-40 alt accounts, mostly to sell their own content and books, and market themselves as a sort of online guru/politics understander type. They had a persona to sell redpill stuff, another for pro-cop propaganda, another for agreeable liberal takes. They'd have accounts with bios like "I'm a trans woman!" or "I love Ukraine!" for whatever the hot topic at the moment was they wanted to speak on behalf of. Recently they had all their main accounts and subs deleted apparently after harassing co-moderators of other subs. They still run a smaller network of subs though, mostly for self-promotion.

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[-] negativeyoda@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

It's fucked for me too. As much spicy intrigue is generated by thinking this is nefarious, I think some dumb shit just fucked something up and broke the site

[-] dipshit@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Time to become the Mozilla you wish to be in this world.

[-] CaprockCoder@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I’m getting this as well. Mobile Safari on iOS 17.

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

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whoa there, pardner!

reddit's awesome and all, but you may have a bit of a problem.

Make sure your User-Agent is not empty, is something unique and descriptive and try again. if you're supplying an alternative User-Agent string, try changing back to default as that can sometimes result in a block.

You can read Reddit's Terms of Service here.

if you think that we've incorrectly blocked you or you would like to discuss easier ways to get the data you want, please contact us at this email address.

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