At this point, I’m not even going to bother trying to go on there anymore.
whoa there pardner
People who write “funny” error messages should be tied to a tree and have old circut boards thrown at their feet
everything about that error page is Toxic AF
Why do only the first half of the paragraphs start with a capital too?
If there’s one thing I learned working in IT it’s that devs actively half-ass their error messages, routinely misspell critical words you’re gonna grep for in logs, and never even consider having someone in Product read over customer-facing error messages like this. All they see is a Jira ticket that says “include the following verbiage in the VPN rejection message” that was typed up by a mostly plastered PM one afternoon after they downed 3 margaritas at “lunch” at the taqueria next to their office. And then they just copy and paste that shit into whatever bullshit HTML template took the least effort to find.
Error pages are a point where something bad happened, so the user is already in a bad mood. A shitty joke just makes the situation worse.
The only time I can remember enjoying novelty error messages is for 404 not found pages. It’s usually stuff like the Google T-Rex thing, or I’ve seen an astronaut floating in space, stuff like that.
Yes fucking please
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.
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.
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.
Reminds me to donate.
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.
They likely didn’t. They just don’t care.
Workaround if you are using uBlock Origin:
reddit.com##+js(set-cookie-reload, reddit_session, 0) old.reddit.com##+js(set-cookie-reload, reddit_session, 0)Add this to your filters.
Gasp
Tempting but the block page is helping remind me to stay mad at Reddit
You need a reminder?
Hehe, as expected of the Internet. I block most cookies and JS anyway but this will work for most people. But won’t it affect logins?
I love you brother…
And I just discovered this some weeks ago. The “woah there, pardner!” is so cringeworthy.
The whole website is cringe. It has some of the best little communities are on there, but they are the exceptions. Most of it is power-tripping mods and disingenuous arguments from far-right lunatics on a foundation of “narwhal bacon lol.”
Started? Been having that issue for months now. It only works on VPN if you’re logged on.
Certain VPN servers can go through it they haven’t implemented a block for it yet. AirVPN launched some new servers that worked for a bit, but Reddit blocked them a few weeks later.
They really want to track you
Jokes on them I block them on the DNS level.
I’m making a list, and I’ll be checking it thrice lol.
Gonna ban all major sites and IPs. The Internet used to be about the small guy not the downtown.
Your meter could use some work but it sings well enough
I’m making a list
and checking it thrice
Gonna ban IPs
and all major sites
The In-ter-net isn’t what it used to be.
I think the only four I have set to block are reddit, twitter, facebook’s products and fandom. A shame those are always the top 10 results from any search.
Wait, why fandom?
Every annoying thing ever invented is embedded in every single fandom page. Ads, twitch streams, ads, personality polls, ads, content gating behind login, ads, sidebars, ads, popups, ads, “share with facebook”, ads, “Tweets from thisguy”, ads, “Check us out on tiktok”, ads, ads, ads and some more ads…
UBlock Origin?
I use fandom for my favourite artists
I’ve tried. Check how large the list got before I completely blocked the domain a couple years ago. And it STILL let stuff through, as they constantly add more crud that infests the pages. The focus isn’t on the content, it’s on the revenue… and they push hard on the revenue. I bet every single module has an extensive list of trackers attached.
! https://*.fandom.com fandom.com###WikiaBar fandom.com##.mcf-wrapper fandom.com##.wds-global-footer__main fandom.com##.message fandom.com##.global-navigation__top fandom.com##.is-visible.fandom-sticky-header fandom.com##.wds-global-footer fandom.com##.page-side-tools__wrapper fandom.com##.featured-video__wrapper fandom.com##.discord-module.rail-module fandom.com###mixed-content-footer fandom.com###SurveyModule fandom.com##.global-navigation fandom.com##.wikia-bar-anon.wikia-bar fandom.com##.mw-parser-output > div:nth-of-type(2) fandom.com###highlight__main-containerIn my case, I’ve blocked 3rd party JS, the rest of the rules are actually to get the page working rather than blocking stuff
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
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.
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.
Notably, computers that I’d previously used to log in to my banned account. I strongly suspect that if I’d used my wife’s laptop to log in to my banned account, then she would have seen her account banned as well for ‘ban evasion’.
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.
I don’t know if you can; Tor breaks a lot of websites, esp. if you have Javascript turned off (and you should if you’re using Tor).
Just tried it without login and for me it works with vpn (proton)
The Redlib frontend still works. In my opinion it also provides a much nicer UI than the official Reddit website or even old.reddit.com. This is the list of public instances: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib-instances/blob/main/instances.md
So I can NOT access old.reddit anymore on any of my linux machines with firefox and nordvpn extension, but I can access both old and new on windows with firefox and extension, and old on android with FF mobile and nordvpn app. Haven’t tried new on android for obvious reasons.
there is libreddit with multiple public instances, for example https://libreddit.lunar.icu
No clue how long it will take until they block that as well, but for now it works with VPN.
You can use a browser plugin for automatically redirecting.
Libreddit is discontinued and due to draconian API limits most instances rarely work
Buying puts first thing on Monday, killing old.reddit is the nail in the coffin for many
Ok, you do that, but people who don’t want to get cut off from 400 million people, how do we fuck up and breakthrough reddit’s anti anonimity defenses ?
Killing reddit is on the table, but is there a more practical approach ?
i dont have an account anymore but for anytime i need to view a reddit post i use RedReader. its an open-source thirdparty app thats still allowed to use reddits API for accesibility reasons.
If you’re anonymously browsing the site without being logged in while on a vpn are you really being “cut off” from the people there?
I mean… if you have a relationship with those 400 million people that’s cultivated through your unrecorded, invisible, surreptitious reading of their comments that’s a deeply diseased thing.
That’s bad, Reddit is blocked in my country. VPN is my key to the open world
What country are you in?
Indonesia
You can still use reddit with a vpn if you login. The error message even tells you that.
Fck reddit. We have lemmy. Let reddit rot.
Every day spez is DIGGing himself into a deeper hole…
