At this point, I’m not even going to bother trying to go on there anymore.
Same issue. I guess I’m never going back there. I’ve already stopped doing it, but from time to time a question I was researching let me to Reddit.
What’s the best tool to delete your account, while also overriding all of your posts and comments?
I havent tried it, but I was told about Redact. It replaces all of your post with gibberish.
Please do not do this. Not creating new content is the best option.
Why, though? I have helpful answers in many threads, giving support about arcane issues people have been dealing with. I don’t want this content to be monetized further.
Nah, just migrate it to some other site
Or you could leave it to rot. You are deleting history
Unfortunately this means I can now longer find answers to some error messages.
I started seeing this a few days ago. It will allow you to browse with a vpn after logging in, and you can log in with the vpn in use.
Funnily once logged in you can log back out and continue browsing old.reddit like normal. I wonder if it’s using some kind if authentication cookie to validate browsing
USE EU VPNs let them block the EU.
Use Redlib front end should be able to open reddit. Some instances don’t work, but you there are many that work. I use this extension: https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension
I only go there on accident.
That’s what i experienced today with tor, it didn’t even surprise me
It is weird how many times I have to tell myself out loud “reddit is bad for me; close that tab!”
I am grateful that facebook/instagram requires a login. It means I never have to look at it even when I am feeling weak.
Same with The Atlantic, The NY Times, and the
Jeff Bezos Suck Billionaire Cock MachineThe Washington Post.Thank you for keeping me from reading that trash, rich people.
Removed by mod
The hurensohn getting his own damn way with just about everything. 🤬🤬🤬
Can confirm. At this point, I just want a solution to completely remove Reddit links from search results.
Oh, they did this with my actual ip lol don’t know what I did
It’s been doing that for sometime now
RedLib, the continuation of LibReddit,
still works:
https://github.com/redlib-org/redlibI use it in combination with this GreaseMonkey script,
to redirect me to a random RedLib instance:
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469587-reddit-to-libreddit-redirectDue to instances often going down and/or stop working.
On Android you can use Stealth . That’s what I use for searches that pull up Reddit posts.
It also lets you subscribe to subs without having an account if you want. You actually do not have the option to sign in on Stealth.
ETA: this works with VPNs and Orbot
The stealth protocol does not have anything to do with accessing individual sites or services. The purpose of stealth is when trying to estata VPN connection to a provider that does not allow VPNs. For example, a public wifi that blocks VPN connections or some countries that require ISPs to block VPN connections.
I never said it did. If you had bothered to actually read my comment or look at the link you would have seen that I was referencing the app Stealth.
stealth doesn’t work at all, it just says something went wrong.
I only get the ‘something went wrong’ error when a post has been scraped, then deleted. So you go to load it but it no longer exists.
I just tried it again before replying and it worked fine for me.
Not the original person replying but I tried it as well and opening the app gives me the same error message.
There’s a message at the bottom that says
Stealth might stop working soon
that when clicked says
Considering it talks about old.reddit.com I imagine the VPN issue is effecting it as well.
It is odd, it still works fine for me.
That notice has been there since the third party change. Under ‘Data’ - ‘Reddit Source’ I had to change it from ‘Teddit’ to ‘Reddit’. Teddit stopped working quite soon after the API change.
It seems to not be effecting all VPN connections, I’m wondering if yours just hasn’t been blocked yet?
To clarify, you can still use old reddit logged in with a VPN, but they no longer allow you to browse logged out with a VPN. Still bad of course. But if you’re willing to log in you don’t have to turn off your VPN. You can sign up with a throwaway/obfuscated email if needs be
I just, don’t visit reddit anymore.
Problem solved…
This is an oversimplification of the problem. Many times a search engine returns useful results inside reddit. You’re not going there because you love reddit as a platform, but because you need something that someone posted in there.
Sadly, when researching problems or interests, often Redditposts have useful info.
Oh ya for sure. I deleted my account, and moved here never intending to look back. I have clicked on a couple reddit links since I left but I really try not too. Like I’d say 5 times maybe. In the end if I need info and that’s the only place…
Try Rdx, it’s great for read access to Reddit.
More info in the GitHub repo.
Not a solution, it gives error:
Can’t load content! There can be multiple reasons for this, your browser’s aggresive privacy settings may be blocking the one call to reddit.com RDX makes. This happens usually when you use a VPM/Proxy and/or a privacy focused browser like Firefox. Play around with privacy/tracking options or change your browser. If it still doesn’t work click the feedback link and send me some info.
Anything that says their website is broken because Firefox is automatically discredited in my book, especially when they recommend switching away from it.
Hey I am the developer of RDX. I don’t care what browser you use but reddit does. It’s reddit that is blocking VPN users. RDX only makes a call to Reddit’s read-only feed to display content without their ads and popups and login restrictions. It does not claim to be a proxy for Reddit.
What’s a VPM?
PSA: you still don’t need an email to register. Simply register via old.reddit.
I thought reddit require an email to create an account
Not if you go through old.reddit.
Oh wow I botched that I meant to say didnt*
Just leave it blank.
Not necessarily.
My primary account was banned from Reddit. (I suggested arson as a way of solving the early stages of a Nazi infestation in a neighborhood, and Reddit claimed this was “instigating violence”, as though Nazis were humans.) They also banned all of my alternate accounts. Any account that i tried to open–regardless of which computer I used, browser, VPN, e-mail address, etc.–also ended up getting banned. I think that they must have been doing some kind of hardware fingerprinting that I wasn’t able to get around, even with canvas blocker etc., and any computer that I’d used to log into Reddit on my primary account was linked to that account, and hence banned from creating an account.
It took a while, but I did manage to overwrite every single post and comment I’d made in the last 10+ years for that account.
Have you tried registering an account through the Tor browser? If they banned you on that as well, then that’s either creepy as hell, or something is wrong with your setup.
regardless of which computer I used
That’s really bizarre. I wonder how they did that. So a different computer on a different network with a different email address and everything would still get you banned for ban evasion?
Really creepy too, obviously they’re keeping a lot of data on you to be able to be that thorough.
had the same issue. built a new pc and was able to access it fine, just gotta be careful not to use reddit on any device my old account was present on.
the funny thing is, I’m not even using a VPN or doing anything to mask my identity. it seems to be purely hardware recognition
These assholes forget that people need to use VPNs in many situations. All the bitch ass corporate folks that never have to use their computers in a coffee shop, etc. Fuck spez.
It goes much deeper than just coffee shops and other public wifi. There are people in oppressive countries that have to use VPNs to get around their country-wide bans of certain sites, such as anything that provides access to information. Reddit used to be a sanction for tons of information sharing. But now, with Reddit going public, they have to appeal to their shareholders, who probably have business or other deals in those oppressive countries. So, even if Reddit is simply trying to force users to be trackable, it still behooves the shareholders to make information and knowledge more difficult to access to certain people.
They likely didn’t. They just don’t care.
You can still use the site via VPN if you’re logged in. Which is really the entire point. They don’t actually care if you’re using a VPN; It’s just another method to force people to make an account, so the “active accounts” number looks good to shareholders.
Then Reddit’s notice should say that instead of scolding sbout VPNs. This problem is not simply with Reddit and a login, it is pervasive. Hell, even lemmy.world blocks vpn connections from making new comments, often.
Then Reddit’s notice should say that instead of scolding sbout VPNs.
It-… Uhh… It does say that. It’s literally the second sentence in the body of the notice, and even has a link to create an account. Did you even read past the title?
Yes, it briefly mentions it but the entirety of that is about shaming VPN use. Is it not?
It doesn’t actually mention VPNs at all. It simply says you were blocked due to a network policy, and offers potential solutions ranging from “try logging in” to “if you’re doing fucky things with your user agent, maybe try not doing fucky things with your user agent.”
Wtf do you think “network policy” is about when it comes up when using fucking VPNs? It is entirely about VPN use.
Your point was that it’s scolding users for using a VPN. It’s explicitly not doing that. Yes, they’re actively working against VPN usage, but your original statement was still incorrect.
Lemmy.world handles that particularly poorly, probably because they’re a nonprofit with a shoestring budget.
The most obvious improvement would be to accept comments when the account meets a certain age and activity threshold.