Is this new? This is the first time Reddit has ever flagged me for using a VPN, trying to force me into signing in/up.
I was just following some search links, from DDG.
Is this new? This is the first time Reddit has ever flagged me for using a VPN, trying to force me into signing in/up.
I was just following some search links, from DDG.
The upside of a VPN: you share an IP address with all the other VPN customers, so it’s impossible to pick you out of a crowd.
Tne Dow aide of a VPN: you share an IP address with all the other VPN customers, so it’s impossible to pick you out of a crowd.
One single VPN user on your network can easily get the entire VPN blocked by abusing Reddit and there’s nothing you can do about it. The worst part: Reddit is right to do these IP bans.
I’m surprised they even offer you to sign up for an account to let you work around the VPN block. They must have a lot of faith in their signup CAPTCHA system.
I like how you spell “the downside.” It’s very innovative.
A bit too much faith in my autocorrect :p
Pretty sure checking a post on their site, say for a BG3 build idea, doesn’t constitute abuse.
The powers that be sacrificed their only value, their user base, to make money quick. We’ll see how it plays out long term, but I’ve moved away from social media. My lemmy use is only on my desktop at this point, and I get precious little time at it, so most of it isn’t spent on lemmy.
The whole point is that the block isn’t about this particular user. Any affordable tool that can be used for anonymity, can and will be abused by malicious people. That’s why Tor is blocked on 90% of websites and why VPN users need to jump through extra hoops so often. If your network offers no way to distinguish you from the guy that keeps uploading videos of children getting raped, your network is getting blocked, simple as that.
For VPN users this is a minor issue, but for people behind CGNAT (which is the standard in many low-income countries these days) that causes huge problems.
Pretty sure checking a post on their site, say for a BG3 build idea, doesn’t constitute abuse.
The powers that be sacrificed their only value, their user base, to make money quick. We’ll see how it plays out long term, but I’ve moved away from social media. My lemmy use is only on my desktop at this point, and I get precious little time at it, so most of it isn’t spent on lemmy.