Reddit blocking web search
from 10x10@lemmy.dbzer0.com to privacy@lemmy.ml on 15 Aug 08:33
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/51158907

I noticed today, having searched about TOR nodes possibly being run by government departments in a browser, I got this message, " Your request has been blocked by network security. Please try to login with your Reddit account. " I didn’t login in the app!

Haven’t come across that before. Has anyone else seen i?

#privacy

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liliumstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 15 Aug 08:36 next collapse

Yeah they basically block all non-residential IPs now. Has been a thing for a while, about since they started selling their dataset for ML training.

Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com on 15 Aug 08:54 collapse

I got that too following a link a friend sent. Seems they stepped up the blocking for some residential addresses now.

Or some other reason. I stopped rummaging through that site years ago.

RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz on 15 Aug 08:53 next collapse

Yes, all the time, be grateful that it’s your first. Really annoying in the middle of research.

kowcop@aussie.zone on 15 Aug 09:22 next collapse

Yep, was happening to me all day in Australia (residential internet)… I guess there is no need to ever visit reddit again

10x10@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 15 Aug 09:58 collapse

I’m just across the ditch. You have to wonder how much Reddit is now just an AI trainer.

sad_detective_man@leminal.space on 15 Aug 10:33 collapse

I don’t wonder. by the time I left there were more barriers to entry for humans than for bots. more newly created or newly active accounts speaking word salad than not. and the moderator help subs were alive every day with somebody asking how to deal with it.

dgriffith@aussie.zone on 15 Aug 11:18 collapse

They’ll have a nice snapshot of data up until about 2021 and then it’ll just be garbage.

dgriffith@aussie.zone on 15 Aug 09:28 next collapse

Changing the URL to old.reddit.com gets around this, until they eventually give up on the old design.

10x10@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 15 Aug 09:58 next collapse

Cheers thanks for that.

breb@piefed.social on 16 Aug 19:02 collapse

using old.reddit.com

"""
whoa there, pardner!

Your request has been blocked due to a network policy.

"""

10x10@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 15 Aug 09:56 next collapse

Thanks guys for all the replys, much appreciated. Oh well, glad I’m on Lemmy. Seems to be a world wide coordinated shift going on at the moment.

Maybe all those people who I took the piss out of in the past for lining their homes with tin foil weren’t so wacko after all, just ahead of their time :)

ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net on 15 Aug 10:52 next collapse

I got that notification for the first time today as well, guessing it’s just a tactic to get people to create accounts they can data mine to sell to AI companies.

Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world on 15 Aug 12:36 next collapse

I’ve seen that message a bunch of times, but only when I’ve had a VPN running.

fullsquare@awful.systems on 15 Aug 12:50 next collapse

it might be reddit just fucking up, i got the same error while logged in

fullsquare@awful.systems on 15 Aug 14:45 collapse

check again, works for me just as usual

breb@piefed.social on 16 Aug 19:00 collapse

yes, i have. Reddit has to fall