same as title, recently got a new pc and installed my vpn from my thumb drive so i wouldnt connect to the internet at all without a VPN and i notice on this pc my connection gets blocked every time i try to go to reddit, which isnt often with fosscad being removed.
I have the continuum client literally only to view articles. I don’t post, comment or otherwise participate. A lot of research I do keeps returning Reddit threads and I just need the safest way to view them. Otherwise I’m blocked for my security measures.
Short answer: Yes
I get this issue about 60% of the time I click on a reddit link with ProtonVPN. Though for some reason this week I’ve had no issues, but the past month I kept needing to server hop.
Same here with ProtonVPN
Yes.
Yes. I’ve noticed this is a lot more common for Mullvad than ProtonVPN servers.
Yup. If you really need to check something on there, there is an extension for your browser (Chrome and Firefox) that will redirect you to an alternative privacy-friendly frontend. https://libredirect.github.io/
This extension is great! Thank you.
Yep they block mullvad. Good riddance I say (to reddit. Its all bots anyways)
The absolute irony of a site so infested by bots blocking VPNs.
Wonder how many VPS provider IPs they get from their “users”
Don’t use reddit
Sometimes it’s the only decent search result
Interestingly, while they do block vpns, they don’t seem to be able to block the libred instance I run on the same IP address as my VPN.
Is there any way to auto-URL replace within a browser? ie Searching leads to a reddit thread, open on libred.
Yes there is!
https://libredirect.github.io/
Its a bit of extra work to get on some chrome based browsers but it works great once you have it set.
If you use the browser extension on Firefox it will do this automatically.
I don’t have any issues. I always have VPN on and I can access Reddit without issues.
Which one do you use?
Sometimes yes in my experience, but mostly it works fine. I suspect it’s a game of whack-a-mole with VPN companies constantly rotating IPs.
It won’t happen if you are logged in, but it’s very likely that your account will be shadowbanned eventually.
Nah, I use VPN 24/7 and my account is still poping 10k likes on posts
They’ll get you eventually. I wasn’t doing anything bad, never got into trouble, never spammed, etc. I was active in small Linux subs, helping people. One day, I was simply shadowbanned. Only thing I can think of is the use of a VPN.
