When you dunk so hard they have to ban the entire block from even seeing the site.

  • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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    8 months ago

    If we all do this we could get reddit to ip ban itself from a good chunk of the US

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      8 months ago

      This isn't IP banning. They creating a fingerprint for the user's browser and then they're using that fingerprint as a method of identifying that user on alt-accounts. Changing the useragent for your browser used to be a method of getting past their fingerprinting because it would assume you're a different person.

  • Justice@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 months ago

    They nuked my main (now deleted rip) account and like 10 alts (do not ask) like 3 years back. My main from the great digg migration whenever that was. Like 2007 or some shit? Honestly don't remember. Whatever, Reddit sucks shit. Been around too long.

  • mkultrawide [any]
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    8 months ago

    There was some sort of error on their side. I was briefly getting that message too on all of my accounts, and I only browse reddit-logo through VPN, I switched VPN servers to ones in the US, Europe, and Asia and was still getting the message. It's back now, though. I made a comment today that I thought they finally got me for lol.

    • Quaxamilliom [comrade/them]
      hexagon
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      8 months ago

      Mines still showing it, across all 4 of me and my roomates laptops/computers. I wonder if it's a new thing theyve rolled out to quiet anti-western voices?

      • mkultrawide [any]
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        8 months ago

        Mine is back, give it a minute. Lots of people were getting it, including people who didn't have accounts:

        https://downdetector.com/status/reddit/

        Are you using a VPN?

  • jabrd [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    Weird, I got this the other day in the gym but only in the gym. Works fine elsewhere. The swoletariat out here shitposting too close to the sun

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      Some dude got banned while at the gym and probably fucked it up for everyone saved everyone from having to use Reddit there.

    • roux [he/him, comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      The swoletariat out here shitposting too close to the sun

      I'm actually dead lol 🤣💀

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    I don't think I've ever seen one of those in like 14 years of being on Stormfront. What did you say?

  • FortifiedAttack [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    I believe this is a measure to prevent primitive web crawlers from accessing the site's content, though you can just specify the user agent with curl anyways and easily spoof a Chrome browser, so I'm not sure what it's supposed to accomplish.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      8 months ago

      I'm sure a security contractor billed Reddit into the mid-six figures to set up that particular component of traffic filtering. So... uh... job creation?

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      8 months ago

      It's part of how they fingerprint the browsers to track a user's identity on alt accounts and ban them. You used to be able to fool their system by changing the useragent to make and use new accounts without getting autobanned, but now they're trying to stop that.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    8 months ago

    Lol changing the useragent was one of the methods of bypassing bans for years when did they catch on people were getting by bans this way?

    Try using a different browser. Download Opera and use it with the free VPN turned on. I bet that will get you back on with a new account. In order to go back to the original browser we'd have to figure out a new method of bypassing the fingerprinting they do.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        8 months ago

        Maybe. But Reddit is a large company with a lot of moving parts. Communication internally is probably shit.

  • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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    8 months ago

    There is something else going on with this, I got one of these errors too but I had reddit opened in another tab when it happened.

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    Good on you for improving the mental health of your household while dunking on Zionazis.

  • dRLY [none/use name]
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    8 months ago

    I got this message yesterday and thought they somehow figured out that I was using a reVanced copy of Sync for Reddit to look at stuff. Though I haven't really used it very often since moving mostly to Lemmygrad and HB. So not even doing commenting or even up-voting anti-Israel stuff. Started seeing it when I had to launch some links to my browser outside the app, but then started getting errors about subs being private (even though my account I am signed into on Sync is subbed to them) before just all subs just stopped loading.

    At first I thought they finally started changing enough stuff to kill off the old access used by the apps (even if they have been reVanced) and accounts using them, but that wouldn't explain the browser issue since I opened it in Firefox Focus and not signed into the account on there. So I tried turning on my VPN and had completely closed out of the app and browser and shit just started working like nothing happened. However I went back today and had forgotten to turn on the VPN and didn't get issues.

    So I am wondering if they accidentally updated something and caused a mass temp IP ban? As the "User Agent" normally (from what I have seen and might be wrong) just something that a browser will set to let a site/server know what browser it is. Maybe the ad-blocking elements of the third-party app and maybe the tracking blocking on Firefox Focus triggered an anti-adblocking tactic being tested? Idk.