First time I've seen this sitting behind my shitty VPN. If the frontpage /r/normaldayinrussia posts didn't make you raise an eyebrow knowing their denying access to people for running a VPN should at least make you second guess.
Get out now, save yourself.
I stopped using Reddit 7 months ago & haven't missed it a bit.
Doesn't apply to old.reddit.com ironically.
One, we did:-D; and two, you can lead a horse to water but... you cannot make selfish & lazy people think.:-(
Only when it affects them personally will they begin to care, and even there they will merely whine and act all shocked - shocked I tell you! SHOCKED!!! - rather than attempt to do anything about it. Huffman was right: the protests were doomed to fail, in the sense that advertisers still pay money to the site.
I've tried half a dozen servers using Mullvad, all get that message. Soon as I turn the VPN off, it works.
They just exiled the few Indonesian redditors out there, if any still exist
FYI going to old reddit will bypass these blocks. To me that's fine anyway as I find 'new' reddit looks like hot garbage so I replace 'www' with 'old'. As long as old is still active, I'll always set my redirectors to it.
am see more people at school on reddit
why no leavings ._.
Does anyone know the background of this? I also experienced this, apparently due to my VPN. But I don't understand how or why-- It doesn't look like they mention that VPN use is against policy, and tbh I'm not really sure how they know I'm on a VPN anyway?
I get these pages from time to time here in Thailand on Google. I always think it's because of some nerfarious people here, but this makes me suspicious it's just a bunch of Americans using vpns.
At least they didn’t just give you a stupid moose that says “something went wrong”
I stopped going to reddit as well as wrote an investor to grab my path of exile news and haven’t looked back since - this would rile me up certainly otherwise
I've been getting this screen for weeks too, on what is generally considered a top quality VPN with a privacy focus.
I guess if they don't want me there, it's whatever. I also have leechblock configured so I have to override that every time I visit the domain. It's a shame that -reddit.com makes Google and most other search engines worse than useless for anything that wont generate revenue for someone. I want the spirit of the early 2000's internet with gigabit speeds. Is that too much to ask?
When does this come up? I've just tested Reddit with VPN, and even through Tor and I'm not getting this. That's not to condone Reddit, I'm just interested.
I get that on vpn, I just choose between the option of not following the link that I've been given, or alternatively, changing vpn locations which costs me literally fractions of a second.
I imagine this is some attempt to stop bots but my I can only imagine genuine users get mad while bots just change location again just like I do.
Kind of like drm, the only ones affected are those who are legitimate buyers.
Of course my opinion is based on nothing but assumptions since I dare not bother spending time there.
Oddly enough it only pops up sometimes. I have a hypothesis that they don't have a good list of VPN IPs try connecting to a different server.
this is either a bug or ratelimit (both happen very often, second issue mostly applies to vpns), they're not intentionally doing this to stop vpns
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