same as title, recently got a new pc and installed my vpn from my thumb drive so i wouldnt connect to the internet at all without a VPN and i notice on this pc my connection gets blocked every time i try to go to reddit, which isnt often with fosscad being removed.
yes
fuck reddit
I have the continuum client literally only to view articles. I don’t post, comment or otherwise participate. A lot of research I do keeps returning Reddit threads and I just need the safest way to view them. Otherwise I’m blocked for my security measures.
I think the main intention here is to block the bots. Reddit blocks requests coming from certain IPs associated with VPS and similar commercial providers. VPN services often rent exit servers there. My connection is blocked when it goes through Tailscale exit node hosted on a VPS.
You can use Tor to browse Reddit anonymously, there is even a .onion address
Short answer: Yes
Yes.
Yup. If you really need to check something on there, there is an extension for your browser (Chrome and Firefox) that will redirect you to an alternative privacy-friendly frontend. https://libredirect.github.io/
This extension is great! Thank you.
Don’t use reddit
Sometimes it’s the only decent search result
I get this issue about 60% of the time I click on a reddit link with ProtonVPN. Though for some reason this week I’ve had no issues, but the past month I kept needing to server hop.
Yes. I’ve noticed this is a lot more common for Mullvad than for ProtonVPN servers.
Same here with ProtonVPN
Interestingly, while they do block vpns, they don’t seem to be able to block the libred instance I run on the same IP address as my VPN.
Is there any way to auto-URL replace within a browser? ie Searching leads to a reddit thread, open on libred.
Yes there is!
https://libredirect.github.io/
Its a bit of extra work to get on some chrome based browsers but it works great once you have it set.
If you use the browser extension on Firefox it will do this automatically.
of course r*ddit uses the image of a smug little prick for this
Yep they block mullvad. Good riddance I say (to reddit. Its all bots anyways)
The absolute irony of a site so infested by bots blocking VPNs.
Wonder how many VPS provider IPs they get from their “users”
Sometimes yes in my experience, but mostly it works fine. I suspect it’s a game of whack-a-mole with VPN companies constantly rotating IPs.
